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Erina L. (MacGeorge) Farrell

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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Erina L. (MacGeorge) Farrell

Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Associate Head
elm26@psu.edu
(814) 865-1948
221 Sparks Building University Park , PA 16802
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Curriculum Vitae

https://cas.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/04/FarrellCV_2May2024.pdf

Education

B.A., University of Alaska, 1992
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1999

Professional Bio

Erina MacGeorge is a social scientist specializing in interpersonal and health communication. Her research examines social support and social influence, with a particular focus on advice. Her work includes the development of advice response theory, which explains advice outcomes for recipients as a function of message, advisor, situation, and recipient characteristics. Recent research examines advice between doctors and parents about childhood antibiotic use and breast cancer patients making surgical decisions with input from their social networks, as well as advice between college student friends coping with everyday problems. Since moving to Penn State in 2014, Dr. MacGeorge has taught courses on communication theory (CAS 202), interpersonal communication theory and research (CAS 403), and advice (CAS 597), and will be teaching courses on interpersonal communication theory (CAS 555) and communication and social support (CAS 597). She is co-author, with Kathleen Verderber, of the textbook Inter-Act (14th ed.).