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Public Reactions to and Impact of Celebrity Health Announcements: Understanding the Charlie Sheen Effect

Diane B. FrancisDepartment of Communication, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA; Correspondence[email protected]
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Elise M. StevensOklahoma Tobacco Research Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA;
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Seth M. NoarSchool of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; ;Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA;
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Laura WidmanDepartment of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Pages 479-494 | Published online: 24 Dec 2018

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Takumi Kato. (2023) Brand Storytelling on Websites: The Role of Empathy on Repurchase Intentions for PCs and Smartphones. Journal of Promotion Management 29:1, pages 27-44.
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Diane B. Francis, Andrew Pilny & Carina M. Zelaya. (2022) Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors. Journal of Applied Communication Research 50:5, pages 533-550.
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Diane B. Francis & LeChrista Finn. (2022) A Theoretically Based Analysis of Twitter Conversations about Trauma and Mental Health: Examining Responses to Storylines on the Television Show Queen Sugar. Health Communication 37:9, pages 1104-1112.
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