Francesca Dillman Carpentier
W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professor, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier is a media psychologist who studies how different parts of a media message can slip under our radar and affect our thoughts, beliefs, and actions in small but significant ways, and often without our express knowledge. She also studies what motivates us to choose certain media content over others, and how the motivations can intensify the effects those choices have on us. Her recent projects have addressed the nature of food marketing and its impact on children’s nutrition and food preferences. Her published work can be found in academic venues across communication, psychology, and public health. In her spare time, she raises a precocious daughter who loves to make her own entertaining videos and animations and who has been an invaluable resource on what’s “cool” on food packages and in food advertising. The primary finding of these endeavors—Mom isn’t very cool. However, no one can touch Mom’s spaghetti.
GFRP Publications
Beverage industry TV advertising shifts after a stepwise mandatory food marketing restriction: achievements and challenges with regulating the food marketing environment.
Authors: Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Teresa Correa, Camila Luz Corvalán Aguilar, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Marcela Reyes, Francesca Renee Dillman Carpentier.
Published In: Public Health Nutrition. December 27, 2023 view full text
Comprehensive mandatory policy needed to fully protect all children from unhealthy food marketing and its influence on health trajectories.
Authors: Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Barry M. Popkin
Published in: PLOS Medicine, September 25, 2023 view full text
Food for thought of food for emotions? An analysis of marketing strategies in television food advertising seen by children in Colombia
Authors: Alicides Velasquez, Maria Fernanda Parra, Mercedes Mora-Plazas, Luis Fernando Gomez, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Francesca R Dillman Carpentier
Published in: Public Health Nutrition, August 10, 2023 view full text
OpEd: Chile's comprehensive food policy offers global lesson in tackling unhealthy foods.
Authors: Francesca Dillman Carpentier, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Teresa Correa
Published in: Health Policy Watch, August 8, 2023 view full text
Design and approval of the nutritional warnings policy in Peru: Milestones, key stakeholders, and policy drivers for its approval
Authors: Francisco Diez-Canseco, Victoria Cavero, Juan Alvarez Cano, Lorena Saavedra-Garcia, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, J. Jaime Miranda
Published in: PLOS Global Public Health, June 16, 2023 view full text
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
Authors: Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Camila Corvalán, Teresa Correa
Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, May 26, 2023 view full text
Are intentions to change, policy awareness, or health knowledge related to changes in dietary intake following a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in South Africa? A before-and-after study
Authors: Michael Essman, Catherine Zimmer, Francesca Dillman Carpentier, Elizabeth C. Swart, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, October 28, 2022 view full text
Why don’t you [government] help us make healthier foods more affordable instead of bombarding us with labels? Maternal knowledge, perceptions, and practices after full implementation of the Chilean food labelling law
Authors: Teresa Correa, Camila Fierro, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Francesca Renee Dillman Carpentier, Camila Corvalán
Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, April 9, 2022 view full text
Front-of-package claims & imagery on fruit-flavored drinks and exposure by household demographics
Authors: Aviva A. Musicus, Sophia V. Hua, Alyssa J. Moran, Emily W. Duffy, Marissa G. Hall, Christina A. Roberto, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Sarah Sorscher, Margo G. Wootan, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Eric B. Rimm
Published in: Appetite, December 27, 2021 (e-pub ahead of print) view full text
Examining the news media reaction to a national sugary beverage tax in South Africa: A quantitative content analysis
Authors: Michael Essman, Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Francesca Dillman Carpentier, Elizabeth C. Swart, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: BMC Public Health, December 2021 view full text
Claims on ready-to-eat cereals: Are those with claims healthier?
Authors: María Parra-Murillo, Caitlin M. Lowery, Luis F. Gómez, Mercedes Mora-Plazas, Lindsey Smith Taillie, and Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier
Published in: Frontiers in Nutrition | Nutrition Epidemiology, November 26, 2021 view full text
Television viewing and using screens while eating: Associations with dietary intake in children and adolescents
Authors: Melissa L. Jensen, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Camila Corvalán, Barry M. Popkin, Kelly R. Evenson, Linda Adair, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Appetite, September 1, 2021 view full text
Impact of warning labels on reducing health halo effects of nutrient content claims on breakfast cereal packages: A mixed-measures experiment
Authors: Fernanda Mediano Stoltze, Emily A. Busey, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Francesca Dillman Carpentier
Published in: Appetite, August 1, 2021 view full text
TV advertising and dietary intake in adolescents: A pre-and post-study of Chile’s Food Marketing Policy
Authors: Melissa L. Jensen, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Linda Adair, Camila Corvalán, Barry M. Popkin, and Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, May 4, 2021 view full text
Extent and nutritional quality of foods and beverages to which children are exposed in Colombian TV food advertising
Authors: Alcides Velasquez, Mercedes Mora-Plazas, Luis Fernando Gómez, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier
Published in: Public Health Nutrition, March 2021 view full text
Nutrition claims on fruit drinks are inconsistent indicators of nutritional profile: A content analysis of fruit drinks purchased by households with young children
Authors: Emily W. Duffy, Marissa G. Hall, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Aviva A. Musicus, Michele L. Meyer, Eric Rimm, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, January 1, 2021 view full text
Examining Chile's unique food marketing policy: TV advertising and dietary intake in preschool children, a pre‐ and post‐policy study
Authors: Melissa L. Jensen, Francesca Dillman Carpentier, L. Adair, C. Corvalán, Barry M. Popkin, Lindsey Smith Taillie
Published in: Pediatric Obesity, October 26, 2020 view full text
Evaluating the impact of Chile’s marketing regulation of unhealthy foods and beverages: Pre-school and adolescent children’s changes in exposure to food advertising on television
Authors: Francesca Dillman Carpentier, Teresa Correa, Marcela Reyes, Lindsey S. Taillie
Published in: Public Health Nutrition, March 2020 view full text
Responses to the Chilean Law of Food Labeling and Advertising: Exploring knowledge, perceptions and behaviors of mothers of young children
Authors: Teresa Correa, Camila Fierro, Marcela Reyes, Francesca R. D. Carpentier, Lindsey S. Taillie, Camila Corvalan
Published in: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2019 view full text
Governmental policies to reduce unhealthy food marketing to children
Authors: Lindsey S. Taillie, Emily Busey, Mediano F. Stoltze, Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier
Published in: Nutrition Reviews, November 1 2019 view full text