Award-Winning Research

Dr. Mary-Lou Galician

REALISTIC ROMANCE®:
Dr. Galician's 12 Life-Changing Prescriptions© REAL-Life Happily-Ever-Afters
The Thinking Person's 7-Step Reality Check-Up
to Diagnose Disastrous Mass Media Myths about Sex, Love, & Romance
(a book for the general public—coming soon!)

Dr. Galician’s Prescriptions© for Getting Real About Romance
Dr. FUN’s Mass Media Love Quiz© (print version)
See how YOU score on this 12-item quiz of your Romantic Realism!
Dr. FUN’s Mass Media Love Quiz© (video versions)
Produced with Dr. David Natharius
Includes examples of pervasive mass media myths
The Romanticization of Love in the Mass Media: The Relationship of Mass Media Usage, Unrealistic Romantic Expectations, and Coupleship Dissatisfactions of Baby Boomer and Generation X Males and Females
(Dr. Galician’s award-winning research study report)
“Media Literacy: Popular Culture and Mass Media Myths about Romantic Love”
By-line article by Dr. Galician, featured in Mass Media /Mass Culture:
An Introduction (5th ed.) by James R. Wilson and Stan LeRoy Wilson,
McGraw-Hill, Inc. (New York, 2001, pp. 33–34).

Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media: New Strategies in Marketing Theory, Practice, Tends, and Ethics (Haworth, 2004)

The Handbook has also been translated into Russian (Et Cetera Publishing, 2004).
Guest Editor, Journal of Promotion Management, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2 ( Spring 2004) — special double issue devoted to product placement in the mass media.

A National Survey of Public Relations Internship Programs at Mass Communication Programs Accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC) with Janice Davis

“Balancing Good News and Bad News: An Ethical Obligation?” (with Steve Pasternack), Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1987), 82–92.

“Effects of ‘Good News’ and ‘Bad News’ on TV Newscast Image and Community Image” (with Norris D. Vestre), Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 64, Nos. 2 and 3, (Summer-Autumn 1987), 399–405, 525.

“Good News," National Association of Broadcasters/RadioActive, Vol. 11, No. 2 (February 1985), 2.

“‘Good News’ and ‘Bad News’ in the Mass Media: Television Viewers’ Comparisons of Magazines, Newspapers, Radio, and Television,” Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1986), 52–64.

“The Good News/Bad News Issue: The Viewers Respond,” ARC International Newsletter, Association for Responsible Communication, December, 1985, pp. 7, 10.

“‘Good News’ and ‘Bad News’: Perceptions of Radio News Directors Across the Border between the United States and Canada” (with Donald G. Godfrey), Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1993), 30–37.

“Perceptions of Good News and Bad News on Television,” Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Autumn 1986), 611–616.

Guest Editor, “High Time for ‘Dis-illusioning’ Ourselves and Our Media: Media Literacy in the 21st Century,” American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 48, Nos. 1 & 2 (September & October 2004) — special double issue.

“Perception and Utilization of Political Communication: A Survey of WICI and the 1988 Political Campaign” (with Gary Warren Melton and Gilbert L. Fowler), Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 1989), 67–80.

“A Sociological Approach to the Pop Music Phenomenon: Radio and Music Video Utilization for Expectation, Motivation, and Satisfaction” (with Gary Warren Melton), Popular Music and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1987), 35–46.