Our Faculty

Scholarly Interests: Attitudes and persuasion; responses to pro-environmental and health messages; motivated reasoning; adoption of sustainable energy sources and technologies related to energy use and sustainability.

Scholarly Interests: Nonverbal communication (e.g., facial expressions, body language) public speaking deception detection

Scholarly Interests: Interpersonal and health communication

Scholarly Interests: Interpersonal communication; Deception; Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

Scholarly Interests: Media effects and media psychology (entertainment media); Narrative persuasion; women in STEM; Technology and interpersonal interactions.

Scholarly Interests: Business writing and communication

Scholarly Interests: Media psychology, morality, media effects, media entertainment, children and media.

Scholarly Interests: International; Media & Society; Impact of New Communication/Information Technology; Intercultural

Scholarly Interests: Role of communication media in civic and political engagement

Scholarly Interests: Social support; social media use; social relationships & well-being/health; interpersonal communication; social cognition

Scholarly Interests: Difficult Conversations in Interpersonal and Health Communication contexts. End-of-life communication. Social Support

Scholarly Interests: Media Effects, Misinformation, Computational Communication Research, Experimental Designs, Content Analysis.

Scholarly Interests: Media processes and effects; entertainment theory; media and morality; positive media psychology.

Scholarly Interests: Introduction to communication

Scholarly Interests: Health communication

Scholarly Interests: Rhetoric

Scholarly Interests: Social Media, Social Capital, Online Behavior, Social Networks.

Scholarly Interests: Difficult dialogues, End-of-life, health, interpersonal, and community education and empowerment

Scholarly Interests: Higher education learning outcomes; Educational psychology; Public speaking; Student engagement in the classroom.

Scholarly Interests: Social Network Analysis Conflict Theory Game Theory Bargaining and Negotiation Chaos Theory

Scholarly Interests: Interpersonal communication; Health communication; Persuasive communication; Evidence-based teaching practices for student engagement.

Scholarly Interests: Entertainment-education, social and behavior change communication (SBCC), health promotion, intervention design, program evaluation.

Scholarly Interests: Risk Communication, Science Communication, Health Communication, Environmental Communication.

Scholarly Interests: Social media, emerging communication technology, media system, computational social science.

Scholarly Interests: Health communication; risk communication; interpersonal communication; persuasion/social influence; social support.