Francesca Renee Dillman Carpentier

About

Francesca Renee Dillman Carpentier is the W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professor at UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media. She has taught courses including behavioral science in health communication, a seminar in media effects and media psychology, and statistics for social sciences. Her research primarily focuses on how different parts of a media message can influence thoughts, beliefs, and actions in subtle but significant ways, often without individuals' explicit awareness. She investigates what motivates people to select certain media content and how these motivations can amplify the effects of their choices. Carpentier’s recent research collaborations include work with the Carolina Population Center’s Global Food Research Program, examining the role of marketing in children’s nutrition and food preferences. She has also conducted projects on the role of media in young adults’ sexual health. Her research has been supported by various funding sources, including university, association, federal, and philanthropic organizations. The findings from her projects have been published in academic journals across communication, psychology, and public health.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Environmental health
• Advertising
• Sociology
• Business
• Medicine
• Social psychology
• Gender studies
• Demography
• Marketing

Selected publications

• Food Advertising on Television Before and After a National Unhealthy Food Marketing Regulation in Chile, 2016–2017

  American Journal of Public Health · 2020 · 73 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The significant postregulation decrease in the prevalence of HEFSS television ads suggests that children in Chile are now less exposed to unhealthy food advertising. However, television originating from national and international outlets should still be monitored for compliance.

  DOI

• Impact of warning labels on reducing health halo effects of nutrient content claims on breakfast cereal packages: A mixed-measures experiment

  Appetite · 2021 · 65 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Restricting child-directed ads is effective, but adding a time-based ban is better: evaluating a multi-phase regulation to protect children from unhealthy food marketing on television

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2023-05-26 · 33 citations

  articleOpen access1st author

  BACKGROUND: As childhood obesity rates continue to rise, health organizations have called for regulations that protect children from exposure to unhealthy food marketing. In this study, we evaluate the impact of child-based versus time-based restrictions of "high-in" food and beverage advertising in Chile, which first restricted the placement of "high-in" advertisements (ads) in television attracting children and the use of child-directed content in high-in ads and, second, banned high-in ads fr…

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• National Policies to Limit Food Marketing and Competitive Food Sales in Schools: A Global Scoping Review

  Advances in Nutrition · 2024-06-12 · 14 citations

  reviewOpen access

  School food environments contribute to children's nutritional intake and overall health. As such, the World Health Organization and other public health organizations encourage policies that restrict children's access and exposure to foods and beverages that do not build health in and around schools. This global scoping review explores the presence and characteristics of policies that restrict competitive food sales and marketing for unhealthy foods across 193 countries using evidence from policy…

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• Design and approval of the nutritional warnings’ policy in Peru: Milestones, key stakeholders, and policy drivers for its approval

  PLOS Global Public Health · 2023-06-16 · 14 citations

  articleOpen accessCorresponding

  Nutritional warnings are used as a public health strategy to address obesity. Peru approved in 2013 and implemented in 2019 a law requiring nutritional warnings on the marketing and packaging of processed foods high in sugar, sodium, saturated fat, and containing trans-fat. The complexity behind the design and approval of these policies over six years provides unique learnings, that inform the obesity prevention context, especially when proposed policies face strong opposition from powerful stak…

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Frequent coauthors

• Lindsey Smith Taillie

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  29 shared

• Camila Corvalán

  University of Chile

  15 shared

• Fernanda Mediano Stoltze

  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  13 shared

• Marcela Reyes

  University of Chile

  11 shared

• Dolf Zillmann

  10 shared

• Barry M. Popkin

  10 shared

• Silvia Knobloch

  University of California, Davis

  10 shared

• Teresa Correa

  10 shared

Education

• PhD

  University of Alabama

  2002

• MA

  University of Alabama

  1999

• BA

  Northern Arizona University

  1997

Awards & honors

• W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professor

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