Emily Falk

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Emily Falk
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Brown University
UCLA
Scientific career
Fields Psychology
Neuroscience
Communication science
Institutions University of Pennsylvania (2013-present)
University of Michigan (2010-2013)
Doctoral advisor Matthew Lieberman
Website www.falklab.org

Emily B. Falk is an American psychologist, neuroscientist, and professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, [1] holding secondary appointments in psychology [2] and marketing. [3]

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Biography

Falk received a Sc.B. in neuroscience from Brown University, an M.A. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. [4] Falk was an assistant professor of communication at the University of Michigan and a faculty associate of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, [5] before her appointment at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research

Falk directs the Communication Neuroscience Lab, a research laboratory that takes an interdisciplinary communication neuroscience approach to link neural activity to individual, group, and population behaviors. [6] Specific research lines include predicting behavior change (including changes in sunscreen use, [7] tobacco smoking, [8] [9] and sedentary behavior [10] ) following exposure to persuasive messages. Another line of research links neural responses to health messages to population level behavioral outcomes. [11] [12]

Her most cited peer-reviewed research articles are:

Awards and distinctions

Falk has received many awards for her work, including the 2012 National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award, [19] [20] the 2017 International Communication Association (ICA) Early Career Scholar Award (then known as the Young Scholar Award), [21] and the 2020 Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Early Career Award. [22]

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References

  1. ↑ "Emily Falk, Ph.D. | Annenberg School for Communication". www.asc.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  2. ↑ "Emily Falk | Psychology". psychology.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  3. ↑ "Emily Falk". Marketing Department. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  4. ↑ "Emily Falk". www.scn.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  5. ↑ "Emily Falk receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award" . Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  6. ↑ "Research – Communication Neuroscience Lab" . Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  7. ↑ Falk, Emily B.; Berkman, Elliot T.; Mann, Traci; Harrison, Brittany; Lieberman, Matthew D. (2010-06-23). "Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brain". The Journal of Neuroscience. 30 (25): 8421–8424. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0063-10.2010. ISSN   0270-6474. PMC   3027351 . PMID   20573889.
  8. ↑ Cooper, Nicole; Tompson, Steven; O'Donnell, Matthew B.; Vettel, Jean M.; Bassett, Danielle S.; Falk, Emily B. (April 2018). "Associations between coherent neural activity in the brain's value system during antfgooismoking messages and reductions in smoking". Health Psychology. 37 (4): 375–384. doi:10.1037/hea0000574. ISSN   1930-7810. PMC   5880700 . PMID   29446965.
  9. ↑ Cooper, Nicole; Tompson, Steve; O'Donnell, Matthew Brook; Falk, Emily B. (2015). "Brain Activity in Self- and Value-Related Regions in Response to Online Antismoking Messages Predicts Behavior Change". Journal of Media Psychology. 27 (3): 93–109. doi:10.1027/1864-1105/a000146. ISSN   1864-1105. PMC   5650074 . PMID   29057013.
  10. ↑ Strecher, Victor J.; Resnicow, Kenneth; An, Lawrence; Taylor, Shelley E.; Lieberman, Matthew D.; Kang, Yoona; Tinney, Francis; Cascio, Christopher N.; O’Donnell, Matthew Brook (2015-02-17). "Self-affirmation alters the brain's response to health messages and subsequent behavior change". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (7): 1977–1982. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.1977F. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1500247112 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   4343089 . PMID   25646442.
  11. ↑ "Neuroimaging predicts influence of anti-smoking media campaign". News-Medical.net. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  12. ↑ "Brain scans predict best anti-smoking images". Futurity. 2015-10-30. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  13. ↑ Bayer, Joseph B.; Ellison, Nicole B.; Schoenebeck, Sarita Y.; Falk, Emily B. (2016-07-02). "Sharing the small moments: Ephemeral social interaction on Snapchat". Information, Communication & Society. 19 (7): 956–977. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2015.1084349. ISSN   1369-118X. S2CID   143325476.
  14. ↑ "Sharing the small moments: Ephemeral social interaction on Snapchat - Emily B. Falk - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  15. ↑ Falk, Emily B.; Berkman, Elliot T.; Mann, Traci; Harrison, Brittany; Lieberman, Matthew D. (2010-06-23). "Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brain". The Journal of Neuroscience. 30 (25): 8421–8424. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0063-10.2010. ISSN   0270-6474. PMC   3027351 . PMID   20573889.
  16. ↑ "Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brain - Emily B. Falk - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  17. ↑ Falk, Emily B.; Berkman, Elliot T.; Lieberman, Matthew D. (2012-05-01). "From neural responses to population behavior: Neural focus group predicts population-level media effects". Psychological Science. 23 (5): 439–445. doi:10.1177/0956797611434964. ISSN   0956-7976. PMC   3725133 . PMID   22510393.
  18. ↑ "From neural responses to population behavior: Neural focus group predicts population-level media effects - Emily B. Falk - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  19. ↑ "NIH Director's New Innovator Award Recipients: 2012 Awardees". National Institutes of Health. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  20. ↑ "DARPA YFA Class of 2015" (PDF). Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  21. ↑ "ICA Early Career Scholar Award". International Communication Association. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  22. ↑ "SANS Awards". Social Affective Neuroscience Society. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
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