2021 Communication Publications

Ahn, S. J. G., Levy, L., Eden, A., Won, A. S., MacIntyre, B., & Johnsen, K. (2021). IEEEVR2020: Exploring the First Steps Toward Standalone Virtual Conferences. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 28.

Ahn, S., Bergan, D. E., Carnahan, D., Barry, R. & Ulusoy, E. (2021). Out-Party cues and factual beliefs in an era of negative partisanship. Journal of Political Marketing, 20(3-4), 269-288. [Reprinted in Bergan, D. E., & Newman, B. I. (Eds.). (2022).

Alexopoulos, C., Timmermans, E., Sharabi, L. L., Roaché, D. J., Croft, A., Dorrance Hall, E., James-Hawkins, L., Lamarche, V., & Uhlich, M. (2021). Settling down without settling: Perceived changes in partner preferences in response to COVID-19. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(6), 1901-1919. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211011527

Aley, M., Hahn, L., Tamborini, R., Goble, H., Zhang, L., Grady, S., & Baldwin, J. (2021). What Does Television Teach Children? Examining the Altruistic and Egoistic Lessons in Popular Children’s Educational Television. Communication Reports, 34, 106-119. Published online: May 23, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.1918738

Anderson, J., Lapinski, M. K., Turner, M. M., Peng, T-Q., Schmälzle, R. (2021). Speaking of values: Value expressive communication and exercise intentions. Health Communication, 1- 10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1886398

Baldwin, J. A., & Schmälzle, R. (2021). A Character Recognition Tool for Automatic Detection of Social Characters in Visual Media Content. Computational Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2022.1.010.BALD [IF. n.a.]

Baldwin, J., & Bente, G. (2021). The winner doesn’t take it all: Analyzing audience responses to an inspirational sports narrative. Media and Communication, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3840.

Bergan, D. E. & Fitzpatrick, N. (2021). Policymaker perceptions of citizen needs: Heuristics, accuracy, and partisan differences. Behavioural Public Policy

Bergan, D. E. (2021). Does ability contribute to partisan bias?: Evaluating scientific research about political topics. Communication Studies, 1-16.

Bergan, D. E., Lacy, S., Carnahan, D., Stamm, M., & Krier, D. H. (2021). Reinforcement in the aggregate: Partisan newspaper circulation and the presidential vote, 1900–1928. Journalism Studies, 22(14), 1911-1929.

Beyea, D., Van Der Heide, B., Ewoldsen, D., Eden, A., & Meng, J. (2021). Avatar based self influence in a traditional CMC environment. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 34, 189-199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000309

Carnahan, D., & Bergan, D. E. (2021). Correcting the misinformed: The Effectiveness of fact-checking messages in changing false beliefs. Political Communication, 1-18.

Carnahan, D., Bergan D. E, & Lee, S. (2021) Do corrective effects last? Results from longitudinal experiment on beliefs toward immigration in the U.S. Political Behavior, 43, 1227-1246

Cheng, Y., & Meng, J. (2021). The association between depression and problematic smartphone behaviors through smartphone use in a clinical sample. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3, 441-453.

Davila-Montero, S. Dana-Le, J. A., Bente, G., Hall, A.T.,& Mason, A.J. (2021). Review and Challenges of Technologies for Real-time Human Behavior Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2021.3060617.

Davis, C., Villalobos, A., Turner, M.M., Long, S., Lapinski, M. (2021). Racism and resistance: A qualitative study of bias as a barrier to breastfeeding. Breastfeeding Medicine

Dorrance Hall, E. & Scharp, K. (2021). Communicative predictors of resilience skills during the transition to college. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(4), 1238-1258. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407520983467

Dorrance Hall, E. & Wilson, S. R. (2021). Explicating the dimensions and types of marginalized family members. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(7), 2099-2120. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211003981

Dorrance Hall, E., Ma, M., Azimova, D., Campbell, N. L., Ellithorpe, M., Plasencia, J., Chavez, M, Zeldes, G., Takahashi, B., Bleakley, A., Hennessy, M. (2021). The mediating role of family and cultural food beliefs on the relationship between family communication patterns and diet and health issues across racial/ethnic groups. Health Communication, 36(5), 593-605. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1733213 .

Dorrance Hall, E., Shebib, S.J., & Scharp, K. (2021). The mediating role of helicopter parenting in the relationship between family communication patterns and resilience in first-semester college students. Journal of Family Communication, 21(1), 34-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1859510

Dorrance-Hall, E., Wilcox, S., Holmstrom, A., McGraw, J., & Schmälzle, R. (2021). Reactance to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Messages: Face Threat and Face Management Strategies in Memorable Daily Conversations Among Couples. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.2010354 [IF. 1.64]

Eden, A., Ellithorpe, M. E., Meshi, D., Ulusoy, E., & Grady, S. M. (2021). All night long: problematic media use is differentially associated with sleep quality and depression by medium. Communication Research Reports, 1-7.

Eden, A., Tamborini, R., Aley, M., & Goble, H. (2021). Advances in research on the model of intuitive morality and exemplars (MIME). In P. Vorderer & C. Klimmt (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory (pp.235-248). Oxford, United Kingdom. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190072216.013.1

Grall, C., Weber, R., Tamborini, R., & Schmälzle, R. (2021). Stories collectively engage listeners’ brains: Enhanced intersubject correlations during reception of personal narratives. Journal of Communication, 71(1), 332-355. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab004

Hahn, L., Tamborini, R., Prabhu, S., Grall, C., Novotny, E., & Klebig, B. (2021). Narrative media's emphasis on distinct moral intuitions alters early adolescents’ judgments. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Published Online: August 26, 2021https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000307

Hall, J., Pennington, N., & Holmstrom, A. J. (2021). Connecting through technology during COVID-19. Human Communication & Technology, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.17161/hct.v3i1.15026

Hofer, M., Tamborini, R., & Ryffel, F. A. (2021). Between a rock and a hard place: The role of moral intuitions and social distance in determining moral judgments of an agent in a moral dilemma. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 33(3), 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a00028

Holmstrom, A. J., Reynolds, R. M., Shebib, S. J., Poland, T. L., Summers, M. E., Mazur, A. P., & Moore, S. (2021). Examining the effect of message style in esteem support interactions: A laboratory investigation. Journal of Communication, 71, 220-245. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab001

Holmstrom, A. J., Shebib, S. J., Boumis, J. K., Allard, A., Mason, A. J., & Lim, J. I (2021). Support gaps during the COVID-19 pandemic: Sex differences and effects on well-being. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(10), 2985-3009. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211041539

Holmstrom, A. J., Shebib, S. J., Mazur, A. P., Mason, A. J., Zhang, L., Allard, A., & Boumis, J. K. (2021). Self-conscious emotions and esteem support: The effectiveness of esteem support in alleviating state shame and guilt. Human Communication Research, 47, 105-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqaa015

James W. Dearing (2021), "What Will Affect the Diffusion of AI Agents?" Human-Machine Communication 3: 83-89.

Joomi Lee, J. Eden, A., Park, T., Ewoldsen, D.R., & Bente,G. (2021) Embodied Motivation: Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Approach and Avoidance in Virtual Reality, Media Psychology, 25, 387-410. DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2021.1968439

Kelly A. Hirko, Joan M. Dorn, James W. Dearing, Catherine M. Alfano, Annemarie Wigton, & Kathryn H. Schmitz (2021), "Implementation of physical activity programs for rural cancer survivors: challenges and opportunities ." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18: 12909.

Klebig, B., Hahn, L., Tamborini, R., Aley, M., Goble, H., & Baldwin, J. (2021). The Influence of Prevailing Regional Political Narratives on Intuitions Featured in Religious Messages, Communication Reports, 34, 37-49. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08934215.2020.1869281

Krämer, N. & Bente, G. (2021). Interactions with Artificial Entities Reloaded: 20 Years of Research from a Social Psychological Perspective. i-com, 20, 253-262. https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2021-0032

Lapinski, M. K., Liu, R. W., Kerr, J., Zhao, J., Lu. Z. & Bum, T. (2021). Culture and social norms: Behavioral decisions about grassland conservation among ethnically-Tibetan pastoralists. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2021.1916569

Lee, J., Eden, A., Park, T., Ewoldsen, D. R., & Bente, G. (2021). Embodied motivation: spatial and temporal aspects of approach and avoidance in Virtual Reality. Media Psychology, 1-24

Lee, S., Peng, T. Q., Lapinski, M. K., Turner, M. M., Jang, Y., & Schaaf, A. (2021). Too strict or too lenient? Antecedents and consequences of perceived stringency of COVID-19 policies in the United States. Health Policy Open, 2, 100047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100047.

Lee, S., Peng, T. Q., Lapinski, M., Turner, M., Jang, Y., & Schaaf, A. (2021). Too stringent or too lenient: Antecedents and consequences of perceived stringency of COVID19 policies in the United States. Health Policy OPEN, 2, 100047. (SSCI Journal in Public Health, Impact Factor Unavailable)

Levine, K. J., Miller, V. D., Quilliam, E. T., McAlister, A. R., & Aley, M. (2021). Socialization to STEM: Using media to help elementary school children consider a career in a STEM related field. Communication Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2021.195355

Liu, R. W., Lapinski, M. K., Kerr, J., Zhao, J., Bum, T., & Lu, Z. (2022). Culture and social norms: Development and application of a model for culturally- contextualized communication measurement (MC³M). Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.770513

Matthias Hoben, Liane R. Ginsburg, Peter G. Norton, Malcolm B. Doupe, Whitney B. Berta, James W. Dearing, Janice M. Keefe, Carole A. Estabrooks (2021), "Sustained Effects of the INFORM Cluster Randomized Trial: An Observational Post-Intervention Study," Implementation Science 16: 83.

Meng, J., & Dai, Y. (2021). Emotional support from AI chatbots: Should a supportive partner self-disclose or not? Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 26, 207-222. (Impact Factor: 5.410)

Meng, J., & Qin, J. (2021). Social network and support health outcomes. The International Encyclopedia of Heath Communication, E. Ho & C. Bylung (Eds.), 1-5. Wiley-Blackwell.

Minwoong Chung, Debra Dekker, Chelsea Gridley-Smith and James W. Dearing (2021), "An Emergent Network for the Diffusion of Innovations Among Local Health Departments at the Onset of COVID-19," Preventing Chronic Disease 18(E19):1-7.

Rachel Gold, Arwen Bunce, James V. Davis, Joan C. Nelson, Stuart Cowburn, Jee Oakley, Stacie Carney, Michael A. Horberg, James W. Dearing, Gerardo Melgar, Joanna E. Bulkley, Janet Seabrook, and Heath Cloutier (2021), " I Didn't Know You Could Do That:" Piloting EHR Optimization Training to Enhance Adoption of Clinical Decision Support," Applied Clinical Informatic 5:e27-e35.

Reinecke, L., Gilbert, A., & Eden, A. (2021). Self-regulation as a key boundary condition in the relationship between social media use and well-being. Current Opinion in Psychology

Rimal, R.N., & Lapinski, M.K. (2021). Behaviours are important, as are their underlying attributes: Use of attribute-centred theorizing (ACT) for behaviour change. World Health Bulletin, 99(11): 828–833. doi: 10.2471/BLT.20.285363

Scharp, K., Cooper, A. R., *Worwood, J., & Dorrance Hall, E. (2021). “There’s always going to be uncertainty”: Exploring undergraduate student parents’ sources of uncertainty and related management practices. Communication Research, 48(7), 1059-1084. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650220903872

Schmälzle, R., & Wilcox, S. (2022). Harnessing AI for Health Communication: The Folic Acid Message Engine. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24(1):e28858. https://doi.org/10.2196/28858 [IF 7.08]

Sharabi, L.L., & Dorrance Hall, E. (2021). Conceptualizing and measuring communication interdependence: The technology and face-to-face integration scale. Communication Methods and Measures, 15(3), 222-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2021.1894325

Sinval, J., Miller, V., & Marôco, J. (2021). Openness Toward Organizational Change Scale (OTOCS): Validity evidence from Brazil and Portugal. PloS one, 16(4): e0249986. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249986

Smith, S. W., De Jong, W., Turner, M. M., Park, S.Y., Jang, Y., Poole, A., Martell, D., & Salerno, J. (2021). Determining Whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the Social Norms Approach Are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses. Journal of Health Communication, 26(11), 792-798 https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2021.2009597

Tamborini, R., Grady, S., Baldwin, J., McClaran, N. & Lewis, R. (2021). The narrative enjoyment and appreciation rationale. In P. Vorderer & C. Klimmt (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory (pp. 45-63). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190072216.013.3

Tamborini, R., Grizzard, M., Hahn, L., Kryston, K. & Ulusoy, E. (2021). The role of narrative cues in shaping ADT: What makes audiences think that good things happened to good people? In P. Vorderer & C. Klimmt (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory (pp. 332-343). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190072216.013.18

Tamborini, R., Hahn, L., Klebig, B., Walling, B.W., Kryston, K. & Aley, M. R. (2021) The Representation of Altruism and Egoism in Children’s Books, Communication Studies, 72, 163-177, DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2020.1833356

Totzkay, D., Silk, K. J., Thomas, B., Walling, B. M., & Smith, S. W. (2021). Women’s understanding of windows of susceptibility and the role of the environment in breast cancer risk. Journal of Cancer Education. DOI: 10.1007/s13187-021-02086-z

Smith, S. W., De Jong, W., Turner, M. M., Park, S.Y., Jang, Y., Poole, A., Martell, D., & Salerno, J. (2021). Determining Whether Public Communications Campaigns Based on the Social Norms Approach Are a Viable COVID-19 Prevention Strategy for College Campuses. Journal of Health Communication, 26(11), 792–798. doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2021.2009597

Johnson A.C., Simmens, S.J., Turner, M.M., Evans, W.D., Strasser, A.A., & Mays, D. (2021). Longitudinal Effects of Cigarette Pictorial Warning Labels Among Young Adults. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-021-00258-2

Hu, D., Liu, C. M. H., Hamdy, R., Cziner, M., Fung, M., Dobbs, S., Turner, M.M et al. (2021). Questioning the Yelp Effect: Mixed Methods Analysis of Web-Based Reviews of Urgent Cares. Journal of medical Internet research, 23(10), e29406. doi: 10.2196/29406

McCarley, S., López-Ríos, M., Burgos G. R., Turner, M. M., Cleary, S. D., Edberg, M., & Colón-Ramos, U. (2021). Using a community-based participatory mixed methods research approach to develop, evaluate, and refine a nutrition intervention to replace sugary drinks with filtered tap water among predominantly Central-American immigrant families with infants and toddlers: The Water up@ Home Pilot Evaluation study. Nutrients, 13(9), 2942. Doi: 10.3390/nu13092942

Johnson A.C., Turner M. M., Simmens S.J., Evans W.D., Strasser A.A., Mays D. (2021). Mediational Effects on Motivation to Quit Smoking After Exposure to a Cigarette Pictorial Warning Label Among Young Adults. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaab073

Turner, M.M. & Rains, S. R. (2021). Guilt Appeals in Persuasive Communication: A Meta-Analytic Review, Communication Studies,72(4), 684700, doi:10.1080/10510974.2021.1953094.

Jang, Y., Turner, M. M., Heo, R. J., & Barry, R. (2021). A new approach to audience segmentation for vaccination messaging: Applying the anger activism model. Journal of Social Marketing, 11 (4) 424-452 doi 10.1108/JSOCM-10-2020-0206

Everett, J. A., Colombatto, C., Awad, E, …..Turner, M. M…. (2021). Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis, Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1074–1088. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01156-y

Turner, M.M., Kamlem, T., Rimal, R., Shaikh, H, & Ume, N. (2021). Overlooking the obvious: Communication of efficacy by the mass media during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Prevention Science, 22(2), 259-268. DOI: 10.1007/s11121-020-01189-1

Phillips, S., Wyatt, L. C., Turner, M. M., Trinh-Shevrin, C., & Kwon, S. C. (2021). Patient-provider communication patterns among Asian American immigrant subgroups in New York City. Patient Education and Counseling, 104(5), 1049-1058. doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.10.002

Villalobos, A., Davis, C., Turner, M.M., Long, S., Hull, S., Lapinski, M.K. (2021). Breastfeeding in context: African American women’s descriptions of normative referents, salient identities and perceived social norms. Health Education & Behavior.

Villalobos, A., Turner, M., Lapinski, M., Hull, S., Long, S., Wang, J. (2021). Predicting breastfeeding intentions: A test and extension of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior with African American social identity. Health Communication.

Walling, B. M., Silk, K. J., Totzkay, D., Boomis, J., Thomas, B., & Smith, S.W. (2021) Evaluating the feasibility of Continuing Medical Education for disseminating emerging science on the breast cancer and environment connection. Journal of Health Communication. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2021.1946728

Wilcox, S., Holmstrom, A., Dorrance-Hall, E., & Schmälzle, R. (2021). The emerging frontier of interpersonal communication and neuroscience: Scanning the social synapse. Annals of the International Communication Association, 44(4), 368-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985. 2020.1843366 [IF n.a.]

Zhang, L., Zheng, L., & Peng, T. Q. (2021). Examining familial role in mobile news consumption as a sequential process. Telematics and Informatics, 56, 101502. (SSCI Journal, Q1 in Information Science & Library Science)

Zhao, J., Kerr, J.M., Lapinski, M.K., & Shupp, R. (2021). Reciprocity and social norms: shortand long-run crowding out effects of financial incentives. Frontiers of Economics in China, 16(2): 177–213. https://doi.org/10.54605/fec20210202

2020 Publications 

2022 Publications