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David Fan, Ph.D.

Professor


Mailing Address:
University of Minnesota
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
6-160 Jackson
321 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA


Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965

Office:
342 Biological Sciences Center
P: 612-624-4718
F: 612-625-5754

Email:
fanxx002@umn.edu

Lab:
338 Biological Sciences Center

Areas of Research Strength:

Computer content analysis of text;
Grapical data analysis; *mathematical *time *trend *modeling of the
impact of *persuasive information on *public *knowledge, *attitudes and
*behaviors.


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Research Techniques:

Computer methods
mathematical modeling


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Research Interests:

Computer content analysis of text; grapical data analysis; mathematical
time trend modeling of the impact of persuasive information on public
knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in any domain for which secondary
data are available; prior studies have included data from the news
media, the internet, advertising, population surveys, and logs of calls
to hotlines in domains ranging as broadly as the political, the
economic, and those in public health.


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Selected Publications:

AUTHOR= "Fingerman Johnson, J., Bengston, D.N. FAn, D.P., and Nelson, K.C.",
TITLE= "U.S. policy response to the fuels management problem: An analysis of the public debate about the Healthy Forests Initiative and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act.",
EDITOR= "Andrews, Patricia L. and Butler, Bret W.",
JOURNAL= "Fuels Managemtns-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings",
PAGES= "59-66",
DATE= "28-30, March 2006",

AUTHOR= "Fingerman Johnson, Jayne, Bengston, David N., Nelson, Kristin C., and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Defensible Space in the News: Public Discussion of a Neglected Topic",
EDITOR= "McCaffrey, Sarah M.",
JOURNAL= "The public and wildland fire management: social science findings for managers. General Technical Report",
PAGES= "169-174",
YEAR= "2006",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "(Contributor)",
EDITOR= "Best, Samuel J. and Radcliff, Benjamin",
BOOKTITLE= "Polling America: an encyclopedia of public opinion",
PUBLISHER= "Greenwood Press",
ADDRESS= "Westport, CT",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Bengston, David N. and Potts, Robert S. and Fan, David P. and Goetz, Edward G.",
TITLE= "An analysis of the public discourse about urban sprawl in the United States: Monitoring concern about a major threat to forests",
JOURNAL= "Forest Policy and Economics",
VOLUME= "7",
PAGES= "745-756",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P. and Kemming, Samantha and Neibergall, Betsy Anderson",
TITLE= "Even negative news can raise awareness of terrorists' causes",
EDITOR= "Grusin, Elinor Kelley and Utt, Sandra H.",
BOOKTITLE= "Media in an American crisis: Studies of September 11, 2001",
PUBLISHER= "University Press of America",
ADDRESS= "Lanham, MD",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Witson, Jean C. and Fan, David P. and Harwood, Eileen M. and Wagenaar, Alexander C.",
TITLE= "Media advocacy and underage drinking policies: A study of Louisiana print media from 1994 through 2003",
JOURNAL= "Health Promotion Practice",
VOLUME= "6",
PAGES= "246-257",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Jasperson, Amy E. and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "The News as Molder of Campaign Ad Effects",
JOURNAL= "International Journal of Public Opinion Research",
VOLUME= "16",
PAGES= "417-436",
YEAR= "2004",

AUTHOR= "Kemming, Samantha and Moore, Jensen and Neibergall, Betsy and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Effects of {S}eptember 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on {U.S.} Press Coverage",
JOURNAL= "Newspaper Review Journal Special Reader, accepted for publication September 2003",
YEAR= "2004",

AUTHOR= "Bengston, David N and Webb, Trevor J. and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Shifting Forest Value Orientations in the United States, 1980-2001:
A Computer Content Analysis",
JOURNAL= "Environmental Values",
VOLUME= "13",
PAGES= "373-392",
YEAR= "2004",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P. and Cook, R. Dennis",
TITLE= "A Differential Equation Model for Predicting Public Opinions and Behaviors from Persuasive Information: Application to the Index of Consumer Sentiment",
JOURNAL= "Journal of Mathematical Sociology",
VOLUME= "27",
PAGES= "1-23",
YEAR= "2003",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Impact of persuasive information on secular trends in health
related
behaviors",
EDITOR= "Hornik, Robert",
BOOKTITLE= "Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behavior Change",
PUBLISHER= "Lawrence Erlbaum Associates",
ADDRESS= "Mahwah, NJ",
PAGES= "251-264",
YEAR= "2002",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P. and Keltner, Kathy and Wyatt, Robert",
TITLE= "A Matter of Guilt or Innocence: How News Reports Affect
Support
for the Death Penalty in the United States",
JOURNAL= "International Journal of Public Opinion Research",
VOLUME= "14",
PAGES= "389-402",
YEAR= "2002",

AUTHOR= "Shah, Dhavan V. and Watts, Mark D. and Domke, David and Fan,
David P.",
TITLE= "News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes:
Explaining Clinton's Public Approval in Spite of Scandal",
JOURNAL= "Public Opinion Quarterly",
VOLUME= "66",
PAGES= "339-370",
YEAR= "2002",

AUTHOR= "Jasperson, Amy E. and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "An Aggregate Examination of the Backlash Effect in Political
Advertising: The Case of the 1996 U.S. Senate Race in Minnesota",
JOURNAL= "Journal of Advertising",
VOLUME= "31",
PAGES= "1-12",
YEAR= "2002",

AUTHOR= "Bengston, David N. and Xu, George and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Attitudes Toward Ecosystem Management in the United States,
1992-1998",
JOURNAL= "Society and Natural Resources",
VOLUME= "14",
PAGES= "471-487",
YEAR= "2001",

AUTHOR= "Bengston, David N. and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Trends in attitudes toward the recreation fee demonstration
program on the national forests: A computer content analysis approach",
JOURNAL= "Journal of Park and Recreation Administration",
VOLUME= "19",
PAGES= "1-21",
YEAR= "2001",

AUTHOR= "Esser, Frank and Reinemann, Carsten and Fan, David",
TITLE= "Spin Doctors in the U.S., Britain and Germany:
Meta-Communication
About Media Manipulation",
JOURNAL= "Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics",
VOLUME= "6",
PAGES= "16-45",
YEAR= "2001",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P. and Keltner, Kathy and Wyatt, Robert",
TITLE= "The Suicidal Messenger: How Press Reporting Affects Public
Confidence in the Press, the Military, and Organized Religion",
JOURNAL= "Communication Research",
VOLUME= "26",
PAGES= "826-852",
YEAR= "2001",


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