Richard M. Perloff

• The Dynamics of Persuasion (1993)
• Political Communication: Politics, Press, and Public in America (1998)

Richard M. Perloff
Born	(1951-07-28) July 28, 1951 (age 73)
Nationality	American
Occupation	University professor
Children	2
Awards	(1998)
Academic background
Education	University of Wisconsin at Madison PhD., 1978, University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1975,University of Michigan, B.A., 1972
Thesis	(1978)
Website	Faculty profile

Richard M. Perloff is an American academic. He is professor of communication at Cleveland State University, ^[1] where he has taught since 1979. ^[2] He has written on persuasion, on political communication, on the psychology of perception of the effects of mass media, and on the third-person effect. ^[1]

Publications

Perloff's published work includes:

• The Dynamics of Persuasion. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993 ^[1]
  • Fifth edition, London; New York: Routledge, 2014.
• Political Communication: Politics, Press, and Public in America. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998. ^[1]
• Persuading People to have Safer Sex: Applications of Social Science to the AIDS Crisis. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
• The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2014.

In 2006 he was editor of a special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on racial health-care disparities and communication. ^{[1] [3]}

Awards

Perloff was the recipient of the 2014 University of Amsterdam School of Communication Research McQuail Award for his article ^[4] on media effects research. ^[5]

Perloff was awarded "Best in Ohio Essay Writing" honors in 2022 from the Ohio Press Club for his article memorializing Alan Canfora—a victim of the Kent State University shootings in 1970. ^[6]

References

1. Wolfgang Donsbach, Michael W. Traugott (editors) (2008). The SAGE handbook of public opinion research. Los Angeles, California; London: SAGE Publications. ISBN   9781412911771.
2. Richard Perloff, Ph.D.. Journalism and Promotional Communication Division, Cleveland State University. Archived 3 August 2013.
3. Richard M. Perloff (editor) (2006). Communication and Racial Disparities in Health Care (special issue). American Behavioral Scientist49 (6): 755–884. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
4. Perloff, Richard M. (2013-10-15). "Progress, Paradigms, and a Discipline Engaged: A Response to Lang and Reflections on Media Effects Research" . Communication Theory. 23 (4): 317–333. doi:10.1111/comt.12024. ISSN   1050-3293.
5. Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2023-08-16). "Awards - ASCoR". Amsterdam School of Communication Research - University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
6. "2022 All Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards" (PDF).