Isaac Marcelo Lipkus | Scholars@Duke

Isaac Marcelo Lipkus
Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure

Research Interests
Dr. Lipkus is interested in how: 1) dispositional (e.g., hostility) and attitudinal variables (e.g.,
belief in a world) affect coping with negative life events (e.g., cancer, conflict in interpersonal
relationships), and 2) the impact of risk perceptions (e.g., optimistic and pessimistic biases) on
modifying precautionary behaviors (e.g., early prevention and detection of cancer,etc.).

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing, Duke University 2009
Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Clinical Science Departments 2009
Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Science Departments 2009
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers 1995

Contact Information

307 Trent Dr., School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27701-2054
DUMC 3322, School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27710
isaac.lipkus@duke.edu (919) 668-2348

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1991
- M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1988
Duke Appointment History
- Associate Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Prevention Research, Community and Family Medicine 2005 - 2009
- Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, with tenure, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2008 - 2009
- Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, with tenure, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2005 - 2008
- Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 1999 - 2005
- Associate Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Prevention Research, Community and Family Medicine 2003 - 2005
- Associate Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Clinical Science Departments 2000 - 2003
- Assistant Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Clinical Science Departments 1999 - 2000
- Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 1996 - 1999
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Science Departments 1995 - 1996
- Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Medical Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 1995
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Research
  - China (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Intervention to Increase Exercise among Breast Cancer Survivors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2017
- Effects of Message Framing and Risk Feedback on CRC Screening awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2017
- Theory-based Intervention to Increase Exercise for Improved Breast Cancer Survivorship awarded by Oncology Nursing Society 2015 - 2017
- Does Cytoplasmic PELP1 Predict Resistance To Tamoxifen Chemoprevention? awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2015
- Improving Adherence to Recommended Surveillance in Breast Cancer Survivors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2015
- Clinical Oncology Research Career Development Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2015
- Patient self-management and gene guided therapy for CHC awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2015
- Effects of Message Framing on Cessation among Couples where both Partners Smoke awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2015
- Science Education in Health Ed Class: Tobacco and Addiction awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2014
- Young Smokers' Reactions to Genetic Risk for Lung Cancer awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2013
- IPA Karen Nicely awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2012
- Using Message Framing to Promote Physical Activity in Colorectal Cancer Survivors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2012
- Assessing Risk Communication Educational Practices in Genetic Counseling Programs awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2012
- Increasing Attention to Smoking Risk Messages awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2011
- Stress and Behavior in Health and Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 1989 - 2011
- Strategies to help inform colorectal cancer risk magnitudes awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2010
- Daughters And MothErS (DAMES) Against Breast Cancer awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2010
- Effects of Communicating RPFNA Results on Decisions about Tamoxifen Use awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2010
- Cancer Information Service awarded by National Cancer Institute 2005 - 2010
- Testing Pharmacological Therapies for Pregnant Smokers awarded by National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2008
- Promoting Health in Prostate and Breast Cancer Survivors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2001 - 2006
- Message Framing Effects on Youth's Smoking Behavior awarded by National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2006
- Affecting Perceived Risks and Ambivalence About Smoking awarded by National Institutes of Health 2003 - 2006
- Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Carpenters awarded by National Institutes of Health 1993 - 2005
- The Obstetrics and Gynecology Risk Group awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2004 - 2005
- Cancer Information Service awarded by National Institutes of Health 1999 - 2005
- Recruiting Teen Smokers Into A Self-Help Quit Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 1999 - 2002
- Models of Personality, Health and Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 1995 - 2001
- Increasing Breast Screening Among Nonaherent Women awarded by National Institutes of Health 1993 - 1999
- Using Tailored Messages To Improve Colorectal Screening awarded by National Institutes of Health 1997 - 1999
- Improving Cancer Risk Communication awarded by National Institutes of Health 1996 - 1999
- Increasing Breast Screening Among Nonadherent Women awarded by National Institutes of Health 1993 - 1998
- Enhancing Cancer Control In A Community Health Center awarded by National Institutes of Health 1993 - 1997
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Journal Articles
  - Hirschey, R, Docherty, SL, Pan, W, and Lipkus, I. "Exploration of Exercise Outcome Expectations Among Breast Cancer Survivors." Cancer nursing 40, no. 2 (March 2017): E39-E46. Full Text
  - Choi, SH, Mitchell, J, and Lipkus, I. "Lessons Learned From an Online Study with Dual-smoker Couples." American Journal of Health Behavior 41, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 61-66. Full Text
  - McBride, CM, Blocklin, M, Lipkus, IM, Klein, WMP, and Brandon, TH. "Patient's lung cancer diagnosis as a cue for relatives' smoking cessation: evaluating the constructs of the teachable moment." Psycho-oncology 26, no. 1 (January 2017): 88-95. Full Text
  - Choi, SH, Terrell, JE, Bradford, CR, Ghanem, T, Spector, ME, Wolf, GT, Lipkus, IM, and Duffy, SA. "Does Quitting Smoking Make a Difference Among Newly Diagnosed Head and Neck Cancer Patients?." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 18, no. 12 (December 2016): 2216-2224. Full Text
  - Hirschey, R, Lipkus, I, Jones, L, Mantyh, C, Sloane, R, and Demark-Wahnefried, W. "Message Framing and Physical Activity Promotion in Colorectal Cancer Survivors." Oncology nursing forum 43, no. 6 (November 2016): 697-705. Full Text
  - vanDellen, MR, Boyd, SM, Ranby, KW, MacKillop, J, and Lipkus, IM. "Willingness to provide support for a quit attempt: A study of partners of smokers." Journal of health psychology 21, no. 9 (September 2016): 1840-1849. Full Text
  - Ross, KM, Ranby, KW, Wooldridge, JS, Robertson, C, and Lipkus, IM. "Effects of physical and mental health on relationship satisfaction: a dyadic, longitudinal examination of couples facing prostate cancer." Psycho-oncology 25, no. 8 (August 2016): 898-904. Full Text
  - Turner, AR, Lane, BR, Rogers, D, Lipkus, I, Weaver, K, Danhauer, SC, Zhang, Z, Hsu, F-C, Noyes, SL, Adams, T, Toriello, H, Monroe, T, McKanna, T, Young, T, Rodarmer, R, Kahnoski, RJ, Tourojman, M, Kader, AK, Zheng, SL, Baer, W, and Xu, J. "Randomized trial finds that prostate cancer genetic risk score feedback targets prostate-specific antigen screening among at-risk men." Cancer (July 19, 2016). Full Text
  - Mays, D, Tercyak, KP, and Lipkus, IM. "The Effects of Brief Waterpipe Tobacco Use Harm and Addiction Education Messages Among Young Adult Waterpipe Tobacco Users." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 18, no. 5 (May 2016): 777-784. Full Text
  - Shaw, RJ, Pollak, K, Zullig, LL, Bennett, G, Hawkins, K, and Lipkus, I. "Feasibility and Smokers' Evaluation of Self-Generated Text Messages to Promote Quitting." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 18, no. 5 (May 2016): 1206-1209. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, and Noonan, D. "Association between felt ambivalence and the desire to quit waterpipe use among college students." Journal of health psychology (March 27, 2016): 1359105316636948-. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Reboussin, BA, Wolfson, M, and Sutfin, EL. "Assessing and Predicting Susceptibility to Waterpipe Tobacco Use Among College Students." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 17, no. 9 (September 2015): 1120-1125. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Schwartz-Bloom, R, Kelley, MJ, and Pan, W. "A preliminary exploration of college smokers' reactions to nicotine dependence genetic susceptibility feedback." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 17, no. 3 (March 2015): 337-343. Full Text
  - Stone, ER, Gabard, AR, Groves, AE, and Lipkus, IM. "Effects of Numerical Versus Foreground-Only Icon Displays on Understanding of Risk Magnitudes." Journal of health communication 20, no. 10 (January 2015): 1230-1241. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Eissenberg, T, Schwartz-Bloom, RD, Prokhorov, AV, and Levy, J. "Relationships among factual and perceived knowledge of harms of waterpipe tobacco, perceived risk, and desire to quit among college users." J Health Psychol 19, no. 12 (December 2014): 1525-1535. Full Text Link to Item
  - Demark-Wahnefried, W, Jones, LW, Snyder, DC, Sloane, RJ, Kimmick, GG, Hughes, DC, Badr, HJ, Miller, PE, Burke, LE, and Lipkus, IM. "Daughters and Mothers Against Breast Cancer (DAMES): main outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of weight loss in overweight mothers with breast cancer and their overweight daughters." Cancer 120, no. 16 (August 2014): 2522-2534. Full Text
  - Shepperd, JA, Novell, CA, O'Neill, SC, Docherty, SL, Sanderson, SC, McBride, CM, and Lipkus, IM. "Contemplating genetic feedback regarding lung cancer susceptibility." Ann Behav Med 47, no. 3 (June 2014): 395-403. Full Text Link to Item
  - Ross, K, Randby, KW, vanDellen, M, Robertson, C, and Lipkus, IM. "LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF ILLNESS UNCERTAINTY ON PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS' ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN THE YEAR FOLLOWING TREATMENT." ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE 47 (April 2014): S14-S14. Link to Item
  - Haga, SB, Mills, R, Pollak, KI, Rehder, C, Buchanan, AH, Lipkus, IM, Crow, JH, and Datto, M. "Developing patient-friendly genetic and genomic test reports: formats to promote patient engagement and understanding." Genome medicine 6, no. 7 (January 2014): 58-. Full Text
  - Sanderson, SC, McBride, CM, O'Neill, SC, Docherty, S, Shepperd, J, and Lipkus, IM. "Young smokers' interpretations of the estimated lung cancer risk associated with a common genetic variant of low penetrance." Public health genomics 17, no. 2 (January 2014): 68-75. Full Text
  - Sanderson, SC, McBride, CM, O'Neill, SC, Docherty, S, Shepperd, J, and Lipkus, IM. "Young smokers' interpretations of the estimated lung cancer risk associated with a common genetic variant of low penetrance." Public Health Genomics 17, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 68-75. Full Text
  - Shepperd, JA, Novell, CA, O'Neill, SC, Docherty, SL, Sanderson, SC, McBride, CM, and Lipkus, IM. "Contemplating genetic feedback regarding lung cancer susceptibility." Annals of Behavioral Medicine 47, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 395-403. Full Text
  - Shofer, S, Beyea, M, Li, S, Bastian, LA, Wahidi, MM, Kelley, M, and Lipkus, IM. "Feasibility of using an epigenetic marker of risk for lung cancer, methylation of p16, to promote smoking cessation among US veterans." BMJ open respiratory research 1, no. 1 (January 2014): e000032-. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Ranby, KW, Lewis, MA, and Toll, B. "Reactions to framing of cessation messages: insights from dual-smoker couples." Nicotine Tob Res 15, no. 12 (December 2013): 2022-2028. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Neill, SC, Lipkus, IM, Sanderson, SC, Shepperd, J, Docherty, S, and McBride, CM. "Motivations for genetic testing for lung cancer risk among young smokers." Tob Control 22, no. 6 (November 2013): 406-411. Full Text Link to Item
  - Shaw, RJ, Bosworth, HB, Silva, SS, Lipkus, IM, Davis, LL, Sha, RS, and Johnson, CM. "Mobile health messages help sustain recent weight loss." American Journal of Medicine 126, no. 11 (November 1, 2013): 1002-1009. Full Text
  - Mosher, CE, Lipkus, I, Sloane, R, Snyder, DC, Lobach, DF, and Demark-Wahnefried, W. "Long-term outcomes of the FRESH START trial: exploring the role of self-efficacy in cancer survivors' maintenance of dietary practices and physical activity." Psychooncology 22, no. 4 (April 2013): 876-885. Full Text Link to Item
  - Ranby, KW, Lewis, MA, Toll, BA, Rohrbaugh, MJ, and Lipkus, IM. "Perceptions of smoking-related risk and worry among dual-smoker couples." Nicotine Tob Res 15, no. 3 (March 2013): 734-738. Full Text Link to Item
  - Mosher, CE, Lipkus, I, Sloane, R, Snyder, DC, Lobach, DF, and Demark-Wahnefried, W. "Long-term outcomes of the FRESH START trial: Exploring the role of self-efficacy in cancer survivors' maintenance of dietary practices and physical activity." Psycho-Oncology 22, no. 4 (2013): 876-885. Full Text
  - O'Neill, SC, Lipkus, IM, Sanderson, SC, Shepperd, J, Docherty, S, and Mcbride, CM. "Motivations for genetic testing for lung cancer risk among young smokers." Tobacco Control 22, no. 6 (2013): 406-411. Full Text
  - Shaw, RJ, Bosworth, HB, Hess, JC, Silva, SG, Lipkus, IM, Davis, LL, and Johnson, CM. "Development of a theoretically driven mHealth text messaging application for sustaining recent weight loss." Journal of Medical Internet Research 15, no. 5 (2013). Full Text
  - Shepperd, JA, Lipkus, IM, Sanderson, SC, McBride, CM, O'Neill, SC, and Docherty, S. "Testing different communication formats on responses to imagined risk of having versus missing the GSTM1 gene." J Health Commun 18, no. 1 (2013): 124-137. Full Text Link to Item
  - Trevena, LJ, Zikmund-Fisher, BJ, Edwards, A, Gaissmaier, W, Galesic, M, Han, PKJ, King, J, Lawson, ML, Linder, SK, Lipkus, I, Ozanne, E, Peters, E, Timmermans, D, and Woloshin, S. "Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers." BMC medical informatics and decision making 13 Suppl 2 (January 2013): S7-. (Review) Full Text
  - Ottenbacher, AJ, Day, RS, Taylor, WC, Sharma, SV, Sloane, R, Snyder, DC, Lipkus, IM, Jones, LW, and Demark-Wahnefried, W. "Long-term physical activity outcomes of home-based lifestyle interventions among breast and prostate cancer survivors." Support Care Cancer 20, no. 10 (October 2012): 2483-2489. Full Text Link to Item
  - Haga, SB, O'Daniel, JM, Tindall, GM, Mills, R, Lipkus, IM, and Agans, R. "Survey of genetic counselors and clinical geneticists' use and attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing." Clin Genet 82, no. 2 (August 2012): 115-120. Full Text Link to Item
  - Haga, SB, O'Daniel, JM, Tindall, GM, Lipkus, IR, and Agans, R. "Survey of US public attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing." Pharmacogenomics J 12, no. 3 (June 2012): 197-204. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Neill, SC, Lipkus, IM, Gierisch, JM, Rimer, BK, and Bowling, JM. "It's the amount of thought that counts: when ambivalence contributes to mammography screening delay." Womens Health Issues 22, no. 2 (March 2012): e189-e194. Full Text Link to Item
  - Crockett, SD, Lipkus, IM, Bright, SD, Sampliner, RE, Wang, KK, Boolchand, V, Lutzke, LS, and Shaheen, NJ. "Overutilization of endoscopic surveillance in nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus: a multicenter study." Gastrointest Endosc 75, no. 1 (January 2012): 23-31.e2. Full Text Link to Item
  - Haga, SB, O'Daniel, JM, Tindall, GM, Mills, R, Lipkus, I, and Agans, R. "Response to Newman et al." Clinical Genetics 82, no. 2 (2012): 203--. Full Text
  - Malo, TL, Lipkus, I, Wilson, T, Han, HS, Acs, G, and Vadaparampil, ST. "Treatment choices based on Onco type Dx in the breast oncology care setting." Journal of Cancer Epidemiology (2012). Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Vadaparampil, ST, Jacobsen, PB, and Miree, CA. "Knowledge about genomic recurrence risk testing among breast cancer survivors." J Cancer Educ 26, no. 4 (December 2011): 664-669. Full Text Link to Item
  - Docherty, SL, McBride, CM, Sanderson, SC, O'Neill, SC, Shepperd, JA, and Lipkus, IM. "Young smokers' views of genetic susceptibility testing for lung cancer risk: minding unintended consequences." J Community Genet 2, no. 3 (September 2011): 165-172. Full Text Link to Item
  - Haga, SB, O'Daniel, JM, Tindall, GM, Lipkus, IR, and Agans, R. "Public attitudes toward ancillary information revealed by pharmacogenetic testing under limited information conditions." Genet Med 13, no. 8 (August 2011): 723-728. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Eissenberg, T, Schwartz Bloom, RD, Prokhorov, AV, and Levy, J. "Affecting perceptions of harm and addiction among college waterpipe tobacco smokers." Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 13, no. 7 (July 2011): 599-610. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Tercyak, KP, Hensley Alford, S, Emmons, KM, Lipkus, IM, Wilfond, BS, and McBride, CM. "Parents' attitudes toward pediatric genetic testing for common disease risk." Pediatrics 127, no. 5 (May 2011): e1288-e1295. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lea, DH, Kaphingst, KA, Bowen, D, Lipkus, I, and Hadley, DW. "Communicating genetic and genomic information: Health literacy and numeracy considerations." Public Health Genomics 14, no. 4-5 (2011): 279-289. Full Text
  - Klein, WMP, Lipkus, IM, Scholl, SM, McQueen, A, Cerully, JL, and Harris, PR. "Self-affirmation moderates effects of unrealistic optimism and pessimism on reactions to tailored risk feedback." Psychol Health 25, no. 10 (December 2010): 1195-1208. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Peters, E, Kimmick, G, Liotcheva, V, and Marcom, P. "Breast cancer patients' treatment expectations after exposure to the decision aid program adjuvant online: the influence of numeracy." Med Decis Making 30, no. 4 (July 2010): 464-473. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tzeng, JP, Mayer, D, Richman, AR, Lipkus, I, Han, PK, Valle, CG, Carey, LA, and Brewer, NT. "Women's experiences with genomic testing for breast cancer recurrence risk." Cancer 116, no. 8 (2010): 1992-2000. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, and Peters, E. "Understanding the role of numeracy in health: proposed theoretical framework and practical insights." Health Educ Behav 36, no. 6 (December 2009): 1065-1081. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lobach, DF, Waters, A, Silvey, GM, Clark, SJ, Kalyanaraman, S, Kawamoto, K, and Lipkus, I. "Facilitating consumer clinical information seeking by maintaining referential context: evaluation of a prototypic approach. (Published online)" AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2009 (November 14, 2009): 380-384. Link to Item
  - Kiviniemi, MT, Hay, JL, James, AS, Lipkus, IM, Meissner, HI, Stefanek, M, Studts, JL, Bridges, JFP, Close, DR, Erwin, DO, Jones, RM, Kaiser, K, Kash, KM, Kelly, KM, Craddock Lee, SJ, Purnell, JQ, Siminoff, LA, Vadaparampil, ST, and Wang, C. "Decision making about cancer screening: an assessment of the state of the science and a suggested research agenda from the ASPO Behavioral Oncology and Cancer Communication Special Interest Group." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18, no. 11 (November 2009): 3133-3137. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Sanderson, SC, O'Neill, SC, White, DB, Bepler, G, Bastian, L, Lipkus, IM, and McBride, CM. "Responses to online GSTM1 genetic test results among smokers related to patients with lung cancer: a pilot study." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18, no. 7 (July 2009): 1953-1961. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, I, and Shepperd, J. "College smokers' estimates of their probabilities of remaining a smoker in the near future." Journal of Health Psychology 14, no. 4 (2009): 547-555. Full Text
  - Mosher, CE, Lipkus, IM, Sloane, R, Kraus, WE, Snyder, DC, Peterson, B, Jones, LW, and Demark-Wahnefried, W. "Cancer survivors' health worries and associations with lifestyle practices." J Health Psychol 13, no. 8 (November 2008): 1105-1112. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Neill, SC, Bowling, JM, Brewer, NT, Lipkus, IM, Skinner, CS, Strigo, TS, and Rimer, BK. "Intentions to maintain adherence to mammography." J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17, no. 7 (September 2008): 1133-1141. Full Text Link to Item
  - Snyder, DC, Sloane, R, Lobach, D, Lipkus, IM, Peterson, B, Kraus, W, and Demark-Wahnefried, W. "Differences in baseline characteristics and outcomes at 1- and 2-year follow-up of cancer survivors accrued via self-referral versus cancer registry in the FRESH START Diet and exercise trial." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17, no. 5 (May 2008): 1288-1294. Full Text Link to Item
  - O'Neill, SC, White, DB, Sanderson, SC, Lipkus, IM, Bepler, G, Bastian, LA, and McBride, CM. "The feasibility of online genetic testing for lung cancer susceptibility: uptake of a web-based protocol and decision outcomes." Genet Med 10, no. 2 (February 2008): 121-130. Full Text Link to Item
  - Nelson, W, Reyna, VF, Fagerlin, A, Lipkus, I, and Peters, E. "Clinical implications of numeracy: Theory and practice." Annals of Behavioral Medicine 35, no. 3 (2008): 261-274. Full Text
  - O'Neill, SC, White, DB, Sanderson, SC, and Lipkus, IM. "The feasibility of online genetic testing for lung cancer susceptibility: Uptake of a web-based protocol and decision outcomes (Genetics in Medicine (2008) 10, (127-130))." Genetics in Medicine 10, no. 3 (2008): 228--. Full Text
  - Pollak, KI, Oncken, CA, Lipkus, IM, Lyna, P, Swamy, GK, Pletsch, PK, Peterson, BL, Heine, RP, Brouwer, RJN, Fish, L, and Myers, ER. "Nicotine replacement and behavioral therapy for smoking cessation in pregnancy." Am J Prev Med 33, no. 4 (October 2007): 297-305. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM. "Numeric, verbal, and visual formats of conveying health risks: suggested best practices and future recommendations." Med Decis Making 27, no. 5 (September 2007): 696-713. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Demark-Wahnefried, W, Clipp, EC, Lipkus, IM, Lobach, D, Snyder, DC, Sloane, R, Peterson, B, Macri, JM, Rock, CL, McBride, CM, and Kraus, WE. "Main outcomes of the FRESH START trial: a sequentially tailored, diet and exercise mailed print intervention among breast and prostate cancer survivors." J Clin Oncol 25, no. 19 (July 1, 2007): 2709-2718. Full Text Link to Item
  - Goldenberg, VK, Seewaldt, VL, Scott, V, Bean, GR, Broadwater, G, Fabian, C, Kimler, B, Zalles, C, and Lipkus, IM. "Atypia in random periareolar fine-needle aspiration affects the decision of women at high risk to take tamoxifen for breast cancer chemoprevention." Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 16, no. 5 (May 2007): 1032-1034. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, and Prokhorov, AV. "The effects of providing lung age and respiratory symptoms feedback on community college smokers' perceived smoking-related health risks, worries and desire to quit." Addict Behav 32, no. 3 (March 2007): 516-532. Full Text Link to Item
  - Pollak, KI, Oncken, CA, Lipkus, IM, Peterson, BL, Swamy, GK, Pletsch, PK, Lyna, P, Namenek Brouwer, RJ, Fish, LJ, and Myers, ER. "Challenges and solutions for recruiting pregnant smokers into a nicotine replacement therapy trial." Nicotine Tob Res 8, no. 4 (August 2006): 547-554. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, and Klein, WMP. "Effects of communicating social comparison information on risk perceptions for colorectal cancer." J Health Commun 11, no. 4 (June 2006): 391-407. Full Text Link to Item
  - Bloom, PN, McBride, CM, Pollak, KI, Schwartz-Bloom, RD, and Lipkus, IM. "Recruiting teen smokers in shopping malls to a smoking-cessation program using the foot-in-the-door technique." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 36, no. 5 (2006): 1129-1144. Full Text
  - Demark Wahnefried, W, Clipp, EC, Lipkus, I, Kraus, WE, Sloane, R, Snyder, DC, and Lobach, DF. "The teachable moment following cancer diagnosis: the FRESH START trial." American Journal of Oncology Review 5, no. 1 (January 2006): 52-57. (Academic Article)
  - Peters, E, Lipkus, I, and Diefenbach, MA. "The functions of affect in health communications and in the construction of health preferences." Journal of Communication 56, no. SUPPL. (2006): S140-S162. Full Text
  - Petty, TL, Dempsey, EC, Collins, T, Pluss, W, Lipkus, I, Cutter, GR, Chalmers, R, Mitchell, A, and Weil, KC. "Impact of customized videotape education on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation 26, no. 2 (2006): 112-117. Full Text
  - McBride, CM, Lipkus, IM, Jolly, D, and Lyna, P. "Interest in testing for genetic susceptibility to lung cancer among Black college students "at risk" of becoming cigarette smokers." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14, no. 12 (December 2005): 2978-2981. Full Text Link to Item
  - Porter, LS, Keefe, FJ, Lipkus, I, and Hurwitz, H. "Ambivalence over emotional expression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer and their caregivers: associations with patient pain and quality of life." Pain 117, no. 3 (October 2005): 340-348. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Skinner, CS, Dement, J, Pompeii, L, Moser, B, Samsa, GP, and Ransohoff, D. "Increasing colorectal cancer screening among individuals in the carpentry trade: test of risk communication interventions." Prev Med 40, no. 5 (May 2005): 489-501. Full Text Link to Item
  - Heimendinger, J, O'Neill, C, Marcus, AC, Wolfe, P, Julesburg, K, Morra, M, Allen, A, Davis, S, Mowad, L, Perocchia, RS, Ward, JD, Strecher, V, Warnecke, R, Nowak, M, Graf, I, Fairclough, D, Bryant, L, and Lipkus, I. "Multiple tailored messages are effective in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among callers to the Cancer Information Service." Journal of Health Communication 10, no. SUPPL. 1 (2005): 65-82. Full Text
  - Lipkus, I, Klein, W, Skinner, CS, and Rimer, B. "Breast cancer risk perceptions and breast cancer worry: What predicts what?." Journal of Risk Research 8, no. 5 (2005): 439-452. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Pollak, KI, McBride, CM, Schwartz-Bloom, R, Lyna, P, and Bloom, PN. "Assessing attitudinal ambivalence towards smoking and its association with desire to quit among teen smokers." Psychology and Health 20, no. 3 (2005): 373-387. Full Text
  - Marcus, AC, Mason, M, Wolfe, P, Rimer, BK, Lipkus, I, Strecher, V, Warneke, R, Morra, ME, Allen, AR, Davis, SW, Gaier, A, Graves, C, Julesberg, K, Nguyen, L, Perocchia, R, Speyer, JB, Wagner, D, Thomsen, C, and Bright, MA. "The efficacy of tailored print materials in promoting colorectal cancer screening: results from a randomized trial involving callers to the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service." J Health Commun 10 Suppl 1 (2005): 83-104. Full Text Link to Item
  - Snyder, DC, Sloane, R, Lobach, D, Lipkus, I, Clipp, E, Kraus, WE, Demark-Wahnefried, W, and Fresh Start study, . "Agreement between a brief mailed screener and an in-depth telephone survey: observations from the Fresh Start study." J Am Diet Assoc 104, no. 10 (October 2004): 1593-1596. Full Text Link to Item
  - Tilson, EC, McBride, CM, Lipkus, IM, and Catalano, RF. "Testing the interaction between parent-child relationship factors and parent smoking to predict youth smoking." J Adolesc Health 35, no. 3 (September 2004): 182-189. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, McBride, CM, Pollak, KI, Schwartz-Bloom, RD, Tilson, E, and Bloom, PN. "A randomized trial comparing the effects of self-help materials and proactive telephone counseling on teen smoking cessation." Health Psychol 23, no. 4 (July 2004): 397-406. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Skinner, CS, Green, LSG, Dement, J, Samsa, GP, and Ransohoff, D. "Modifying attributions of colorectal cancer risk." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13, no. 4 (April 2004): 560-566. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, McBride, CM, Pollak, KI, Lyna, P, and Bepler, G. "Interpretation of genetic risk feedback among African American smokers with low socioeconomic status." Health Psychol 23, no. 2 (March 2004): 178-188. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Samsa, GP, Dement, J, Skinner, CS, Green, LSG, Pompeii, L, and Ransohoff, DF. "Accuracy of self-reports of fecal occult blood tests and test results among individuals in the carpentry trade." Prev Med 37, no. 5 (November 2003): 513-519. Link to Item
  - Rakowski, W, Lipkus, IM, Clark, MA, Rimer, BK, Ehrich, B, Lyna, PR, and Kornguth, PJ. "Reminder letter, tailored stepped-care, and self-choice comparison for repeat mammography." Am J Prev Med 25, no. 4 (November 2003): 308-314. Link to Item
  - Dement, J, Pompeii, L, Lipkus, IM, and Samsa, GP. "Cancer incidence among union carpenters in New Jersey." J Occup Environ Med 45, no. 10 (October 2003): 1059-1067. Full Text Link to Item
  - Keefe, FJ, Lipkus, I, Lefebvre, JC, Hurwitz, H, Clipp, E, Smith, J, and Porter, L. "The social context of gastrointestinal cancer pain: a preliminary study examining the relation of patient pain catastrophizing to patient perceptions of social support and caregiver stress and negative responses." Pain 103, no. 1-2 (May 2003): 151-156. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Green, LG, and Marcus, A. "Manipulating perceptions of colorectal cancer threat: implications for screening intentions and behaviors." J Health Commun 8, no. 3 (May 2003): 213-228. Full Text Link to Item
  - McBride, CM, Emmons, KM, and Lipkus, IM. "Understanding the potential of teachable moments: the case of smoking cessation." Health Educ Res 18, no. 2 (April 2003): 156-170. Link to Item
  - Demark-Wahnefried, W, Clipp, EC, McBride, C, Lobach, DF, Lipkus, I, Peterson, B, Clutter Snyder, D, Sloane, R, Arbanas, J, and Kraus, WE. "Design of FRESH START: a randomized trial of exercise and diet among cancer survivors." Med Sci Sports Exerc 35, no. 3 (March 2003): 415-424. Full Text Link to Item
  - Keller, PA, Lipkus, IM, and Rimer, BK. "Affect, framing, and persuasion." Journal of Marketing Research 40, no. 1 (2003): 54-64. Full Text
  - Bastian, LA, McBride, CM, Fish, L, Lyna, P, Farrell, D, Lipkus, IM, Rimer, BK, and Siegler, IC. "Evaluating participants' use of a hormone replacement therapy decision-making intervention." Patient Educ Couns 48, no. 3 (December 2002): 283-291. Link to Item
  - Pollak, KI, Taiwo, B, Lyna, P, Baldwin, M, Lipkus, IM, Bepler, G, and McBride, CM. "Reported cessation advice given to African Americans by health care providers in a community health clinic." J Community Health 27, no. 6 (December 2002): 381-393. Link to Item
  - McBride, CM, Bastian, LA, Halabi, S, Fish, L, Lipkus, IM, Bosworth, HB, Rimer, BK, and Siegler, IC. "A tailored intervention to aid decision-making about hormone replacement therapy." Am J Public Health 92, no. 7 (July 2002): 1112-1114. Link to Item
  - McBride, CM, Bepler, G, Lipkus, IM, Lyna, P, Samsa, G, Albright, J, Datta, S, and Rimer, BK. "Incorporating genetic susceptibility feedback into a smoking cessation program for African-American smokers with low income." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11, no. 6 (June 2002): 521-528. Link to Item
  - Pollak, KI, Yarnall, KSH, Rimer, BK, Lipkus, I, and Lyna, PR. "Factors associated with patient-recalled smoking cessation advice in a low-income clinic." J Natl Med Assoc 94, no. 5 (May 2002): 354-363. Link to Item
  - Rimer, BK, Halabi, S, Sugg Skinner, C, Lipkus, IM, Strigo, TS, Kaplan, EB, and Samsa, GP. "Effects of a mammography decision-making intervention at 12 and 24 months." Am J Prev Med 22, no. 4 (May 2002): 247-257. Link to Item
  - Chlebowski, RT, Col, N, Winer, EP, Collyar, DE, Cummings, SR, III, VGV, Burstein, HJ, Eisen, A, Lipkus, I, and Pfister, DG. "American Society of Clinical Oncology technology assessment of pharmacologic interventions for breast cancer risk reduction including tamoxifen, raloxifene, and aromatase inhibition." Journal of Clinical Oncology 20, no. 15 (2002): 3328-3343. Full Text
  - Keller, PA, Lipkus, IM, and Rimer, BK. "Depressive Realism and Health Risk Accuracy: The Negative Consequences of Positive Mood." Journal of Consumer Research 29, no. 1 (2002): 57-69. Full Text
  - Pollak, KI, Arredondo, EM, Yarnall, KSH, Lipkus, I, Myers, E, McNeilly, M, and Costanzo, P. "Influence of stereotyping in smoking cessation counseling by primary care residents." Ethn Dis 12, no. 4 (2002): 578-585. Link to Item
  - Stoddard, AM, Fox, SA, Costanza, ME, Lane, DS, Andersen, MR, Urban, N, Lipkus, I, Rimer, BK, and NCI Breast Screening Consortium, . "Effectiveness of telephone counseling for mammography: results from five randomized trials." Prev Med 34, no. 1 (January 2002): 90-99. Full Text Link to Item
  - Pollak, KI, Arredondo, EM, Yarnall, KS, Lipkus, I, Myers, E, McNeilly, M, and Costanzo, P. "How do residents prioritize smoking cessation for young "high-risk" women? Factors associated with addressing smoking cessation." Prev Med 33, no. 4 (October 2001): 292-299. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Klein, WM, and Rimer, BK. "Communicating breast cancer risks to women using different formats." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 10, no. 8 (August 2001): 895-898. Link to Item
  - Bastian, LA, Lipkus, IM, Kuchibhatla, MN, Weng, HH, Halabi, S, Ryan, PD, Skinner, CS, and Rimer, BK. "Women's interest in chemoprevention for breast cancer." Arch Intern Med 161, no. 13 (July 9, 2001): 1639-1644. Link to Item
  - Rimer, BK, Halabi, S, Sugg Skinner, C, Kaplan, EB, Crawford, Y, Samsa, GP, Strigo, TS, and Lipkus, IM. "The short-term impact of tailored mammography decision-making interventions." Patient Educ Couns 43, no. 3 (June 2001): 269-285. Link to Item
  - Dalbert, C, Lipkus, IM, Sallay, H, and Goch, I. "A just and an unjust world: Structure and validity of different world beliefs." Personality and Individual Differences 30, no. 4 (2001): 561-577. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Biradavolu, M, Fenn, K, Keller, P, and Rimer, BK. "Informing women about their breast cancer risks: truth and consequences." Health Commun 13, no. 2 (2001): 205-226. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Feaganes, JR, Green, JD, and Sedikides, C. "The relationship between attitudinal ambivalence and desire to quit smoking among college smokers." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 31, no. 1 (2001): 113-133.
  - Lipkus, IM, Samsa, G, and Rimer, BK. "General performance on a numeracy scale among highly educated samples." Med Decis Making 21, no. 1 (January 2001): 37-44. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Lyna, PR, and Rimer, BK. "Colorectal cancer risk perceptions and screening intentions in a minority population." J Natl Med Assoc 92, no. 10 (October 2000): 492-500. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Halabi, S, Strigo, TS, and Rimer, BK. "The impact of abnormal mammograms on psychosocial outcomes and subsequent screening." Psychooncology 9, no. 5 (September 2000): 402-410. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Kuchibhatla, M, McBride, CM, Bosworth, HB, Pollak, KI, Siegler, IC, and Rimer, BK. "Relationships among breast cancer perceived absolute risk, comparative risk, and worries." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 9, no. 9 (September 2000): 973-975. Link to Item
  - McBride, CM, Clipp, E, Peterson, BL, Lipkus, IM, and Demark-Wahnefried, W. "Psychological impact of diagnosis and risk reduction among cancer survivors." Psychooncology 9, no. 5 (September 2000): 418-427. Link to Item
  - McBride, CM, Halabi, S, Bepler, G, Lyna, P, McIntyre, L, Lipkus, I, Albright, J, and O'Briant, K. "Maximizing the motivational impact of feedback of lung cancer susceptibility on smokers' desire to quit." J Health Commun 5, no. 3 (July 2000): 229-241. Full Text Link to Item
  - Demark-Wahnefried, W, Peterson, B, McBride, C, Lipkus, I, and Clipp, E. "Current health behaviors and readiness to pursue life-style changes among men and women diagnosed with early stage prostate and breast carcinomas." Cancer 88, no. 3 (February 1, 2000): 674-684. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Rimer, BK, Halabi, S, and Strigo, TS. "Can tailored interventions increase mammography use among HMO women?." Am J Prev Med 18, no. 1 (January 2000): 1-10. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Crawford, Y, Fenn, K, Biradavolu, M, Binder, RA, Marcus, A, and Mason, M. "Testing different formats for communicating colorectal cancer risk." J Health Commun 4, no. 4 (October 1999): 311-324. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Iden, D, Terrenoire, J, and Feaganes, JR. "Relationships among breast cancer concern, risk perceptions, and interest in genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility among African-American women with and without a family history of breast cancer." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 8, no. 6 (June 1999): 533-539. Link to Item
  - Rimer, BK, Conaway, M, Lyna, P, Glassman, B, Yarnall, KS, Lipkus, I, and Barber, LT. "The impact of tailored interventions on a community health center population." Patient Educ Couns 37, no. 2 (June 1999): 125-140. Link to Item
  - Rimer, BK, Halabi, S, Strigo, TS, Crawford, Y, and Lipkus, IM. "Confusion about mammography: prevalence and consequences." J Womens Health Gend Based Med 8, no. 4 (May 1999): 509-520. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Lyna, PR, and Rimer, BK. "Using tailored interventions to enhance smoking cessation among African-Americans at a community health center." Nicotine Tob Res 1, no. 1 (March 1999): 77-85. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, and Hollands, JG. "The visual communication of risk." J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr , no. 25 (1999): 149-163. (Review) Link to Item
  - Bloom, PN, Lipkus, I, Schwartz-Bloom, RD, McBride, C, and Feaganes, J. "A field experiment using the foot-in-the-door technique to recruit teen smokers to smoking cessation programs." Social Marketing Quarterly 4, no. 4 (1998): 61-63. Full Text
  - Stoddard, AM, Rimer, BK, Lane, D, Fox, SA, Lipkus, I, Luckmann, R, Avrunin, JS, Sprachman, S, Costanza, M, and Urban, N. "Underusers of mammogram screening: Stage of adoption in five U.S. subpopulations." Preventive Medicine 27, no. 3 (1998): 478-487. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM, Rimer, BK, Lyna, PR, Pradhan, AA, Conaway, M, and Woods-Powell, CT. "Colorectal screening patterns and perceptions of risk among African-American users of a community health center." J Community Health 21, no. 6 (December 1996): 409-427. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Rimer, BK, and Strigo, TS. "Relationships among objective and subjective risk for breast cancer and mammography stages of change." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 5, no. 12 (December 1996): 1005-1011. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Dalbert, C, and Siegler, IC. "The importance of distinguishing the belief in a just world for self versus for others: Implications for psychological well-being." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22, no. 7 (1996): 666-677.
  - Lipkus, IM, and Bissonnette, VL. "Relationships among belief in a just world, willingness to accommodate, and marital well-being." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22, no. 10 (1996): 1043-1056.
  - Malarkey, WB, Lipkus, IM, and Cacioppo, JT. "The dissociation of catecholamine and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to daily stressors using dexamethasone." J Clin Endocrinol Metab 80, no. 8 (August 1995): 2458-2463. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, and Siegler, IC. "Do comparative self-appraisals during young adulthood predict adult personality?." Psychol Aging 10, no. 2 (June 1995): 229-237. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Barefoot, JC, Feaganes, J, Williams, RB, and Siegler, IC. "A short MMPI scale to identify people likely to begin smoking." J Pers Assess 62, no. 2 (April 1994): 213-222. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Barefoot, JC, Williams, RB, and Siegler, IC. "Personality measures as predictors of smoking initiation and cessation in the UNC Alumni Heart Study." Health Psychol 13, no. 2 (March 1994): 149-155. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, and Siegler, IC. "The belief in a just world and perceptions of discrimination." J Psychol 127, no. 4 (July 1993): 465-474. Full Text Link to Item
  - Lipkus, I, and Rusbult, C. "Reactions to individuals who are consistently positive or negative: The impact of differing interaction goals." Human Relations 46, no. 4 (April 1993): 481-499. (Academic Article) Full Text
  - Barefoot, JC, Beckham, JC, Haney, TL, Siegler, IC, and Lipkus, IM. "Age differences in hostility among middle-aged and older adults." Psychol Aging 8, no. 1 (March 1993): 3-9. Link to Item
  - Lipkus, IM, Martz, JM, Panter, AT, Drigotas, SM, and Feaganes, JR. "Do optimists distort their predictions for future positive and negative events?." Personality and Individual Differences 15, no. 5 (1993): 577-589.
  - Rusbult, CE, Onizuka, RK, and Lipkus, I. "What Do We Really Want?: Mental Models of Ideal Romantic Involvement Explored through Multidimensional Scaling." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 29, no. 6 (1993): 493-527. Full Text
  - Lipkus, IM. "A heuristic model to explain perceptions of unjust events." Social Justice Research 5, no. 4 (1992): 359-384. Full Text
  - Lipkus, I. "The construction and preliminary validation of a global belief in a just world scale and the exploratory analysis of the multidimensional belief in a just world scale." Personality and Individual Differences 12, no. 11 (1991): 1171-1178. Full Text
  - Rusbult, CE, Verette, J, Whitney, GA, Slovik, LF, and Lipkus, I. "Accommodation Processes in Close Relationships: Theory and Preliminary Empirical Evidence." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 60, no. 1 (1991): 53-78.
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