Michael D. Slater

This researcher's work focuses on how media and communication influence health-related beliefs and behaviors, including tobacco use, alcohol warning labels, and public health messaging during events like COVID-19. The publication record also studies persuasion processes, such as how personal testimonials and narrative storytelling affect attitudes and opinions, and includes theoretical and computational modeling of opinion change (e.g., polarization models). Note that the provided publication list appears to mix in several unrelated titles (e.g., on gastroenterology, weather stations, and occupational safety in Nigeria's oil industry), which likely reflect a data-matching issue with a common name rather than this researcher's actual body of work.

Publication output has declined from a peak of around 16-20 papers per year in 2017-2018 to a steadier but lower pace of roughly 6-9 papers per year in recent years.

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