Programs › West Lafayette, IN
Studies sports communication, sponsorship and naming, corporate advocacy, and organizational rhetoric, with attention to legitimacy, trust, and communication pedagogy.
Studies congressional floor behavior and the intersection of media and politics using the C-SPAN video archives of televised U.S. congressional proceedings.
Studies leadership, identification, and distributed organizing in peacebuilding and political violence prevention, linking engaged scholarship to policy.
Develops cognitive theories of message production, communication skill, and nonverbal behavior, including how aging affects communication.
Studies how communication and collaboration networks in and across organizations evolve, including network ties in disaster recovery, using social network analysis.
Studies human interaction with digital and AI technologies, international communication, and the role of emerging technologies in strategy, security, and defense.
Designs, implements, and evaluates health communication campaigns and health advocacy initiatives, integrating engaged scholarship and service-learning pedagogy.
Studies the interplay of communication and decision making with AI, including LLM-agent and human-agent teams, using experiments and agent-based simulations.
Studies how personal and social media shape supportive communication in interpersonal relationships and the mechanisms driving outcomes of mediated support.
Studies why people consume media, how they cognitively process it, and its effects, particularly news and political content, from a media psychology perspective.
Studies how consumers cope with persuasion in AI-driven advertising, dark patterns in data consent, health messaging, and advertising and privacy regulation.
Studies health campaign message design and healthcare marketing, such as physician biography videos, and evaluates campus interventions using mixed methods.
Studies video games, entertainment media, and positive media psychology, along with media industries, from a social scientific perspective.
Studies social cognitive processes in risk and science communication, especially judgments of trust and fairness toward authorities, using experiments and surveys.
Studies how political elites communicate strategically online and offline, how news portrays them, and how digital technology shapes political processes and scandal.
Studies how societal norms and stereotypes about (dis)ability and identity shape intergroup and interpersonal communication and their links to health outcomes.
Studies the lay psychology of AI: how people make sense of, trust, and judge the fairness and morality of AI systems and algorithmic decision-making.
Studies how social media exposure to fact checks, misinformation, and political memes affects belief accuracy, polarization, and unfriending, using experiments and surveys.
Studies how online communities function as organizations and shape collective belief, using large-scale data analysis, simulation, and social network analysis.
Studies how compounding stressors affect Black and Latinx families and the family communication that helps or hurts mental and relational health, using mixed methods.
Studies interpersonal dynamics of human-AI interaction in extended reality and designs XR/AI interventions, combining physiological, computational, and interview methods.