Everything about Extended parallel process model

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Extended parallel process modelA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Impact of Social Media, Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) on the Intention to Stay at Home during the COVID-19 PandemicInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: American FilmThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Putting the fear back into fear appeals: The extended parallel process modelCited 3,258 times
5. Go sideways: Fear appealA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Kim WitteA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Putting the fear back into fear appeals: The extended parallel process model

  Kim Witte · 1992 · Communication Monographs · 3,258 citations

• Fear control and danger control: A test of the extended parallel process model (EPPM)

  Kim Witte · 1994 · Communication Monographs · 1,219 citations

• The Extended Parallel Process Model

  Lucy Popova · 2011 · Health Education & Behavior · 313 citations

• Fear Appeals and Persuasion: A Review and Update of the Extended Parallel Process Model

  Erin K. Maloney, Maria K. Lapinski, Kim Witte · 2011 · Social and Personality Psychology Compass · 268 citations

• Understanding Inconsistent Employee Compliance with Information Security Policies Through the Lens of the Extended Parallel Process Model

  Yan Chen, Dennis F. Galletta, Paul Benjamin Lowry · 2021 · Information Systems Research · 90 citations

• Examining HPV Threat-to-Efficacy Ratios in the Extended Parallel Process Model

  Nick Carcioppolo, Jakob D. Jensen, Steven R. Wilson · 2013 · Health Communication · 51 citations

• Predicting intercultural adaptation and isolation: using the extended parallel process model to test anxiety/uncertainty management theory

  Craig R. Hullett, Kim Witte · 2001 · International Journal of Intercultural Relations · 50 citations

• Effectiveness of the extended parallel process model in promoting colorectal cancer screening

  Wendy C. Birmingham, Man Hung, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat · 2015 · Psycho-Oncology · 48 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Impact of Social Media, Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) on the Intention to Stay at Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Diana Tsoy, Danijela Godinic, Qingyan Tong · 2022 · Sustainability · 36 citations

• An application of the extended parallel process model to protective behaviors against COVID-19 in South Korea

  Hyejung Yoon, Myoungsoon You, Changwoo Shon · 2022 · PLOS ONE · 24 citations

• Rethinking information disclosure to GenAI in hotels: An extended parallel process model

  Cristian Morosan · 2025 · International Journal of Hospitality Management · 23 citations

• Motivating cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolemia: applying the extended parallel process model for clinician communication

  Gemme Campbell-Salome, Nicole L Walters, Ilene G Ladd · 2022 · Translational Behavioral Medicine · 17 citations

• Predicting college students’ COVID-19 vaccination behavior: an application of the extended parallel process model

  Anthony J. Roberto, Xin Zhou · 2022 · Journal of Behavioral Medicine · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• American FilmAmerican Film Institute · 1975
• Database system conceptsAbraham Silberschatz · 1997
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• Introduction to Computing Using PythonLjubomir Perkovic · 2011
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMPMichael J. Quinn · 2003
• Hands-on start to Wolfram MathematicaCliff Hastings · 2015

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🔗 Related topics

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