Esther Thorson

Esther Thorson

Michigan State University

H-index: 66

North America-United States

About Esther Thorson

Esther Thorson, With an exceptional h-index of 66 and a recent h-index of 32 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Michigan State University, specializes in the field of Media finance, advertising effects, health communication.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Softening the Blow: The Power of Rhetorical Frames Used by Social Media Influencers with Sponsorship Disclosure

Emotion in Processing Advertising and News

Predicting audience verification intention: The impact of partisanship, source, importance, and information familiarity on willingness to verify headlines

Media multitasking, counterarguing, and brand attitude: Testing the mediation effects of advertising attention and cognitive load

Digital Advertising: Theory and Research

100 Years of Advertising Studies in JMCQ

Reaching science skeptics: How adaptive framing of climate change leads to positive responses via persuasion knowledge and perceived behavioral control

The consumer psychology of traditional media.

Esther Thorson Information

University

Position

Professor of Journalism College of Communication Arts and Sciences

Citations(all)

15366

Citations(since 2020)

4542

Cited By

12526

hIndex(all)

66

hIndex(since 2020)

32

i10Index(all)

153

i10Index(since 2020)

89

Email

University Profile Page

Michigan State University

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Esther Thorson Skills & Research Interests

Media finance

advertising effects

health communication

Top articles of Esther Thorson

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Softening the Blow: The Power of Rhetorical Frames Used by Social Media Influencers with Sponsorship Disclosure

Journal of Interactive Advertising

Eunjin Kim

Esther Thorson

Margaret Duffy

Heather Shoenberger

2024/4/23

Emotion in Processing Advertising and News

Journalism & Communication Monographs

Esther Thorson

2023/6

Predicting audience verification intention: The impact of partisanship, source, importance, and information familiarity on willingness to verify headlines

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Rachel R Mourão

Esther Thorson

Kevin Kryston

Carin Tunney

2023/6

Media multitasking, counterarguing, and brand attitude: Testing the mediation effects of advertising attention and cognitive load

Computers in Human Behavior

Yuhmiin Chang

Esther Thorson

2023/2/1

Digital Advertising: Theory and Research

Esther Thorson

2017/2/17

100 Years of Advertising Studies in JMCQ

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Esther Thorson

2023/12

Reaching science skeptics: How adaptive framing of climate change leads to positive responses via persuasion knowledge and perceived behavioral control

Communication Research

Renita Coleman

Esther Thorson

Cinthia Jimenez

Kami Vinton

2022/5/19

The consumer psychology of traditional media.

Esther Thorson

2022

COVID-19 communication ecology: Visualizing communication resource connections during a public health emergency using network analysis

American Behavioral Scientist

J Brian Houston

Esther Thorson

Eunjin Kim

Murali K Mantrala

2021/6

Perceived individual and societal values of news and paying for subscriptions

Journalism

Weiyue Chen

Esther Thorson

2021/6

Following and avoiding fear-inducing news topics: fear intensity, perceived news topic importance, self-efficacy, and news overload

Journalism Studies

Carin Tunney

Esther Thorson

Weiyue Chen

2021/4/4

Under the influence: Social media influencers’ impact on response to corporate reputation advertising

Journal of Advertising

Eunjin Kim

Margaret Duffy

Esther Thorson

2021/3/15

The twitterization of journalism: User perceptions of news tweets

Journalism

J Brian Houston

Mitchell S McKinney

Esther Thorson

Joshua Hawthorne

J David Wolfgang

...

2020/5

Who uses fact-checking sites? The impact of demographics, political antecedents, and media use on fact-checking site awareness, attitudes, and behavior

The International Journal of Press/Politics

Craig T Robertson

Rachel R Mourão

Esther Thorson

2020/4

National and local news consumption and indices of community participation in an American civic-journalism news environment

Journalism Studies

Esther Thorson

Weiyue Chen

Stephen Lacy

2020/3/11

When do audiences verify? How perceptions about message and source influence audience verification of news headlines

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Stephanie Edgerly

Rachel R Mourão

Esther Thorson

Samuel M Tham

2020/3

Experiment, Laboratory, Design of

The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology

Esther Thorson

2020/9/8

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Co-Authors

H-index: 67
Byron Reeves

Byron Reeves

Stanford University

H-index: 64
Annie Lang

Annie Lang

Indiana University Bloomington

H-index: 36
Murali Mantrala

Murali Mantrala

University of Missouri

H-index: 35
Christopher E. Beaudoin

Christopher E. Beaudoin

Boston University

H-index: 35
Albert C. Gunther

Albert C. Gunther

University of Wisconsin-Madison

H-index: 34
Shelly Rodgers

Shelly Rodgers

University of Missouri

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