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Cara Lawson

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2014Rising activity
Risk Perception and ManagementDiverse Educational Innovations StudiesPublic Relations and Crisis CommunicationFire effects on ecosystemsDisaster Management and Resilience

Publications

23

Citations

35

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

13

Publishing since 2014

Research summary
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Cara Lawson studies how people perceive and communicate about risk, disasters, and agricultural or rural issues, including climate change, wildfires, and extreme weather events. Her work often uses surveys and media content analysis to understand how news coverage, political views, and personal experience shape public opinion and information-seeking behavior. Much of her research applies these questions to rural and agricultural communities in the United States.

Risk perception and disaster communicationClimate change communication and policy supportAgricultural and rural issues in media coverageInformation-seeking behavior during crisesScience and media literacy in agricultural education

Publication output was minimal before 2020 but has grown steadily since, rising from a few papers per year to about five in 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.2/year recently
1718192020: 3 publications202021: 3 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 5 publications5252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Applied Communications×13
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction×2
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×2
  • Rural Sociology×1
  • Journal of Agricultural Education×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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