Richard M. Perloff

{{short description|American academic (born 1951)}}

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| education = University of Wisconsin at Madison PhD., 1978, University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1975,University of Michigan, B.A., 1972

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| main_interests = Communication, psychology, persuasion, behavoiral sciences

| workplaces = Cleveland State University at School of Communication

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Richard M. Perloff is an American academic. He is professor of communication at Cleveland State University,{{r|sage}} where he has taught since 1979.{{r|self}} 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.{{r|sage}}

Publications

Perloff's published work includes:

  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=HZcSbdRNG_0C The Dynamics of Persuasion]. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993{{r|sage}}
  • Fifth edition, London; New York: Routledge, 2014.
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=2RqOAQAAQBAJ Political Communication: Politics, Press, and Public in America]. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.{{r|sage}}
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=fH2RAgAAQBAJ Persuading People to have Safer Sex: Applications of Social Science to the AIDS Crisis]. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=kExJAgAAQBAJ 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.{{r|sage|abs}}

Awards

Perloff was the recipient of the 2014 University of Amsterdam School of Communication Research McQuail Award for his article{{Cite journal |last=Perloff |first=Richard M. |date=2013-10-15 |title=Progress, Paradigms, and a Discipline Engaged: A Response to Lang and Reflections on Media Effects Research |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12024 |journal=Communication Theory |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=317–333 |doi=10.1111/comt.12024 |issn=1050-3293|url-access=subscription }} on media effects research.{{Cite web |last=Amsterdam |first=Universiteit van |date=2023-08-16 |title=Awards - ASCoR |url=https://ascor.uva.nl/about-ascor/awards/awards.html |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Amsterdam School of Communication Research - University of Amsterdam |language=en}}

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.{{Cite web |title=2022 All Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards |url=https://www.pressclubcleveland.com/media/documents/eij2/2022eijtab.pdf}}

References

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Richard M. Perloff (editor) (2006). Communication and Racial Disparities in Health Care (special issue). American Behavioral Scientist 49 (6): 755–884. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.

Wolfgang Donsbach, Michael W. Traugott (editors) (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ht5bvEM8FckC&pg=PR17 The SAGE handbook of public opinion research]. Los Angeles, California; London: SAGE Publications. {{ISBN|9781412911771}}.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20130803220238/http://www.csuohio.edu/class/com/rperloffBio.html Richard Perloff, Ph.D.]. Journalism and Promotional Communication Division, Cleveland State University. Archived 3 August 2013.{{self-published inline|date=June 2016}}

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