When mothers engage in frequent sexual discussions with their teenagers but fail to express clear disapproval of teenagers’ sexual involvement, their efforts are more likely to result in greater risky sexual involvement by their teen, according to a new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The study was conducted by Atika Khurana, postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Human Resource Research at the Ohio State University.

Amy Jordan, Director of APPC’s Media and the Developing Child area, was interviewed by The New York Times about a new anti-obesity advertising campaign.

APPC Director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., was a guest on the NPR program The Takeaway discussing campaign slogans.

APPC research on third-party spending in the presidential primaries has been covered by The Huffington Post, the Sunlight Foundation, and the San Francisco Chronicle’s Politics blog, among others.