Programs › Newark, DE
Studies cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses to televised sports and advertising, plus content analysis of sports commentary and food ads aimed at youth.
Studies media effects on adolescent health behaviors and develops and evaluates theory-based health messages for youth.
Studies how news, entertainment, and social media messages shape public opinion on policy issues, including gay rights, and public perceptions of science.
Studies problematic internet use and online interpersonal behavior, building a cognitive-behavioral model and the GPIUS2 measurement scale.
Studies how interpersonal communication such as social support, disclosure, and forgiveness helps people cope with discrimination, using biosocial and physiological methods.
Studies political communication, civic engagement, polarization, incivility, and generative AI in politics using surveys, experiments, and content analysis.
Studies effective health messaging for lay publics on breast cancer and environmental risk, suicide prevention, social norms, and nutrition among adolescent mothers.
Studies political media effects, public opinion, and the psychology of political satire, humor, irony, and outrage.
Studies media psychology and how people strategically use media, including social media and AI chatbots, for mental and physical well-being, plus enjoyment of characters.
Studies rhetoric and public address of the American military and military dissent, along with organizational and political communication, social movements, and leadership.
Studies freedom of expression, media ethics, and media accountability, examining public opinion on censorship, hate speech, and net neutrality and measuring willingness to censor.
Studies how culture shapes the ways people communicate about and cope with difficult emotions, focusing on emotional support in interpersonal relationships.
Studies local television news and its impact on audiences, news media ethics, digital convergence, and telepresence.
Studies human relationships with media, media agents, and machines, including AI, immersive media, and privacy, drawing on embodied cognition and computational approaches.
Studies misinformation about women's health on social media, including contraception, cycle syncing, pregnancy, preeclampsia, and menopause, and its effects on health beliefs.
Studies supportive communication that fosters psychological and physical health after major stressors such as pregnancy loss and bereavement.
Studies strategic health message design and persuasion, using communication theory to understand health decisions and equip health professionals and community champions.