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| Celeste Michelle ConditSummaryAffiliation: University of Georgia Country: USA Publications
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Public understanding of risks from gene-environment interaction in common diseases: implications for public communicationsC M Condit
Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 1725, USA
Public Health Genomics 14:115-24. 2011..It contributes a psychometrically valid scale for measuring beliefs about gene- behavior relationships...- Generalization through similarity: motif discourse in the discovery and elaboration of zinc finger proteinsCeleste Michelle Condit
Department of Speech Communication, 110 Terrell Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
J Biomed Discov Collab 2:5. 2007..This study uses the case of the discovery and classification of zinc finger proteins to explore how biological categories based in similarity are represented... - Exploration of the impact of messages about genes and race on lay attitudesC M Condit
Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens 30602, USA
Clin Genet 66:402-8. 2004..The presentation of such messages to the public is not recommended until additional research clarifies this finding and perhaps describes mitigating vocabularies or approaches... - Lay people's understanding of and preference against the word "mutation"Celeste M Condit
Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30683, USA
Am J Med Genet A 130:245-50. 2004..The term variation had better response and is recommended as an alternative in genetic counseling and public media... - How geneticists can help reporters to get their story rightCeleste M Condit
Department of Speech Communication, 110 Terrell Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Nat Rev Genet 8:815-20. 2007..It provides some specific options for reducing hype, countering genetic determinism and preventing the use of genetics to reinforce discriminatory messages, slants that many reporters are inclined to give to their articles... - Public understandings of genetics and healthC M Condit
Department of Speech Communication, Terrell Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Clin Genet 77:1-9. 2010..Public understanding of details pertinent to genetic testing generally appears to be weak... - Science reporting to the public: does the message get twisted?Celeste Condit
Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, USA
CMAJ 170:1415-6. 2004 - Public attitudes and beliefs about geneticsCeleste M Condit
Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 11:339-59. 2010.... - Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks: a focus group study of public understandings of genetic researchBenjamin R Bates
School of Communication Studies, Lasher Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
Soc Sci Med 60:331-44. 2005..The paper concludes with a discussion of the importance of public participation in debates over genetic research and the ways that researchers and policymakers could adapt to public concerns about genetics... - The psychometric property and validation of a fatalism scaleLijiang Shen
Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Psychol Health 24:597-613. 2009..88). The relationships between the external variables and the first- and second-order factors provided evidence of the scale's external consistency and construct validity... - Functions of health fatalism: fatalistic talk as face saving, uncertainty management, stress relief and sense makingBethany Keeley
Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Sociol Health Illn 31:734-47. 2009.... - Evaluating direct-to-consumer marketing of race-based pharmacogenomics: a focus group study of public understandings of applied genomic medicationBenjamin R Bates
School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45710, USA
J Health Commun 9:541-59. 2004..Our study concludes that both advocates and opponents of direct-to-consumer advertisements should recognize that potential consumers of pharmacogenomics act as critical consumers of health advertising discourse... - What does "a gene for heart disease" mean? A focus group study of public understandings of genetic risk factorsBenjamin R Bates
Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, USA
Am J Med Genet A 119:156-61. 2003..Genetic fatalism in patient populations may be confined to a sizable minority. Important considerations for provider intervention and patient education are indicated... - The changing meanings of "mutation:" A contextualized study of public discourseCeleste M Condit
Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Hum Mutat 19:69-75. 2002..Later increases in negative connotations appear to arise from more diffuse sources. These results are contextualized by comparison to other research on meanings of mutation and an observational sample of scientific discourse... - Development and validation of tools to assess genetic discrimination and genetically based racismRoxanne L Parrott
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 97:980-90. 2005..We recommend application of these screening tools prior to national dissemination of messages associated with genes and disease susceptibility, including school and university-based curricula... - The role of "genetics" in popular understandings of race in the United StatesCeleste M Condit
Department of Communication Studies at Pennsylvania State University
Public Underst Sci 13:249-72. 2004..Instead, they vary in the extent to which they attribute differences to cultural, personal, and genetic factors... - Informed lay preferences for delivery of racially varied pharmacogenomicsJennifer L Bevan
Greenspun School of Communications, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Genet Med 5:393-9. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: If issues of cost, discrimination, and privacy are addressed, lay individuals prefer genetic testing as the basis for prescription of medicines that exhibit racially patterned response variation... - Genes and race in the news: a test of competing theories of news coverageJohn Lynch
Department of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 1505, USA
Am J Health Behav 30:125-35. 2006..To examine newspaper coverage of race and genetics to identify patterns and possible explanations for them in extant theory in order to improve health promotion campaigns... - Genetic research and health disparitiesPamela Sankar
Center for Bioethics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104 3308, USA
JAMA 291:2985-9. 2004....
Research Grants
- Race and Public Communication about Human VariationCeleste Condit; Fiscal Year: 2003..The project will focus on the concerns of African Americans about discrimination and genetics and on attitudes about African Americans and genetics held by European Americans and the general population. ..
- Lay and Expert Models of Gene-Environment InteractionCeleste Condit; Fiscal Year: 2007..It will develop ways of telling people the results of personalized genetic testing without increasing their fatalism. This will help recipients to adopt behaviors that will better stave off the risks identified by the tests. ..