NCA23 Research Showcase

Research conducted by in the Department of Communication will be featured at this year's meeting of the National Communication Association. Researchers in the Department will present a total of 13 different projects. Our faculty and students hold important leadership roles at NCA; Dr. Laramie Taylor is Second Vice Chair-Elect for the Mass Communication Division and NCA Doctoral Education Committee Member. Graduate student Muhammad Rasul is Graduate Student Rep Elect for the Mass Communication Division and Graduate Student Sofia Rhea is Secretary Elect for the Mass Communication Division.

Below is a full list of the studies being presented at NCA this year.

Can Memes Activate Stereotype Threat and Lift Effects in a Physical Performance Task?
Camren Allen, Jorge Peña

Can media portrayals of sexual consent and refusal increase adolescents’ intentions to use affirmative sexual consent? Experimental evidence
Cassandra Alexopoulos, Drew Cingel, Hannah Stevens

From Fear to Freedom: Deconstructing how Fear Motivates Behavior Change through the Extended Parallel Processing Model
Steven Brunner, Heather Jane Hether

Mechanisms of People’s Book Reading: Exploration and Reinforcement Learning
Xuanjun (Jason) Gong, Richard Huskey

Media Multitasking as an Exploratory (vs. Explotive) Behavior
Xuanjun (Jason) Gong, Richard Huskey

How to Conduct More Inclusive Research: A Conversation with the Experts
Valerie Kretz, David L. Stamps, Kristen Harrison, Laramie Taylor, Meghan S. Sanders, Sumana Chattopadhyay, Travis L. Dixon, Veronica Hefner

The Influence of Linguistic Agency and Causality on Politeness in Online Support Messages
Rachel McKenzie, Lisa Hwang

Can Virtual Art and Attachment Priming Decrease Pain and Social Disconnection Among Individuals Living with Chronic Pain and Loneliness? A Pre-Registered Online Clinical Trial Using a Serious Game
Jorge Peña, Ian Koebner, William David Weisman

Murder, They Watched: Emerging Understandings of Crime Entertainment Media
Sofia Veronica Rhea, Laramie Taylor

Institutional Factors in the Research Collaboration in Computational Social Science from 2012 to 2021: An Exponential-Family Random Graph Model
Jack Lipei Tang, Sijia Qian, Xinran Zhu

You Can’t Help but Get Involved: The Impact of Generic You in First Person Narratives
Laramie Taylor, Meng Chen

Blaming Undocumented Immigrants in Crises: Revisiting Effects of Death and Economic Threats through Holistic Thinking Since COVID-19
Yifeng Wang, Xinyi Zhang, Yuwei Zhong

The Majority of Fact-checking Labels are Intense and This Decreases Engagement Intention
Haoning Xue, Jingwen Zhang, Cuihua Shen, Magdalena Wojcieszak