Jeff Gottfried

Jeffrey A. Gottfried is the Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. He completed his Ph.D. in Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Jeffrey’s interests fall broadly in the area of the influence of mass communication on individuals’ attitudes, opinions, cognitions, and behaviors, and on society, with a more specific focus on the influence of political campaigns and the news media during American elections. He is also interested in advanced social scientific research methods. His work has been published in journals including Communication Research, Dædalus, Political Behavior, and Political Research Quarterly.

• Jeffrey A. Gottfried, Sarah E. Vaala, Amy Bleakley, Michael Hennessy, and Amy Jordan. (2013). Does the Effect of Exposure to TV Sex on Adolescent Sexual Behavior Vary by Genre? Communication Research, 40(1), 73-95.

• Lauren Kogen and Jeffrey A. Gottfried. (2012). I Knew It All Along! Evaluating Time-Of-Decision Measures in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Political Behavior, 34(4), 719-736.

• James L. Gibson, Jeffrey A. Gottfried, Michael X. Delli Carpini, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. (2011). The Effects of Judicial Campaign Activity on the Legitimacy of Courts: A Survey-Based Experiment. Political Research Quarterly, 64(3), 545-558.

• Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Jeffrey A. Gottfried. (2010). Are There Lessons for the Future of News from the 2008 Presidential Campaign? Dædalus,139(2),18-25.