Yichao Wang

Ph.D. Student

Department

Communication

wangy129@msu.edu

Bio

Yichao is a third-year doctoral student and teaching assistant who had both his undergraduate and Master's in Communication at Michigan State University. He also majored in Japanese when he was an undergraduate student.

Research and Teaching

Yichao's research interests span topics from health-related behaviors to online conspiracy beliefs, with a shared emphasis on cultural and national differences in communication. His teaching experience includes COM-100 (Human Communication), COM-225 (Interpersonal Communication), COM-240 (Organizational Communication), COM-320 (Diversity and Communication), and a summer statistics camp through MSU's Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP).

Related Work

Publications

Zhu, Y., Wang, Y., & Ma, S. (2025). Videos engaging in conspiracy theories: Promoting or refuting foreign-pseudohistory on the video-sharing website (Bilibili). PLoS ONE, 20(2), e0318986. (Co-first author)

Lapinski, M. K., Heo, R., Liu, R. W., Kerr, J. M., Zhao, J., Bum, T., Wang, Y., Yoon, H., Hipple, S., & Lu, Z. (2025). Social norms for illegal hunting and patrolling to prevent it: Formative data for intervention design and communication campaigns. Environmental Communication, 19(7),1240-1256.

Zhu, Y., Bresnahan, M., Wang, Y., Yan, X., & Hussain, S. A. (2025). Speak English in the department or perish? A multimethod study on online public responses to an English-only incident at a US university. Language and Intercultural Communication, 25(1), 29-45.

Contact Information

404 Wilson Road, Room 445