Recent Communication Research

Our School has some of the communication field's most prolific and insightful researchers. Here is a listing from 2012.

Appiah, O., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Alter, S. (in press). Ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation: Effects of news valence, character race, and recipient race on selective news reading. Journal of Communication.

*Hoplamzian, G. J., & Appiah, O. (in press). Viewer responses to character race and social status in advertising: Blacks see color, Whites see class. Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising.

Bègue, L., Bushman, B. J., *Zerhouni, O., Subra, B., & *Ourabah, M. (in press).‘Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder’: People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive. British Journal of Psychology

Bushman, B. J., Giancola, P. R., Parrott, D. J., & Roth, R. M. (2012). Failure to consider future consequences increases the effects of alcohol on aggression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(2), 591-595. Scientific American article; USA Today article

Bushman, B. J., Moeller, S. J., Konrath, S., & Crocker, J. (2012). Investigating the link between liking versus wanting self-esteem and depression in a nationally representative sample of American adults. Journal of Personality, 80(5), 1455-1471.

Coyne, S. M., Bushman. B. J., & Nathanson, A. I. (2012). Media and the family: A note from the guest editors. Family Relations, 61, 359-362.

Coyne, S. M., Busby, D., Bushman, B. J., Gentile, D. A., Ridge, R., & *Stockdale, L. (2012). Gaming in the game of love: Effects of video games on conflict in couples. Family Relations, 61, 388-396.

Gentile, D. A., & Bushman, B. J. (in press). Reassessing media violence effects using a risk and resilience approach to understanding aggression. Psychology of Popular Media Culture. happychild.com.au article

Giancola, P. R., Parrott, D. J., Silvia, P. J., Bègue, L., Subra, B., *Duke, A. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2012). The disguise of sobriety: Unveiled by alcohol in persons with an aggressive personality. Journal of Personality, 80(1), 163-185.

Gollwitzer, M., & Bushman, B. J. (2012). Do victims of injustice punish to improve their mood? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(5), 572-580. doi: 10.1177/1948550611430552

*Hasan, Y., Bègue, L., & Bushman, B. J. (2012). Viewing the world through “blood-red tinted glasses”: The hostile expectation bias mediates the link between violent video game exposure and aggression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 953-956.

*Hasan, Y., Bègue, L., & Bushman, B. J. (in press). Violent video games stress people out and make them more aggressive. Aggressive Behavior 

*Hasan, Y., Bègue, L., Scharkow, M., & Bushman, B. J. (2012). The more you play, the more aggressive you become: A long-term experimental study of cumulative violent video game effects on hostile expectations and aggressive behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 224-227.

*Mischkowski, D., Kross, E., & Bushman, B. J. (2012). Flies on the wall are less aggressive: Self-distanced reflection reduces angry feelings, aggressive thoughts, and aggressive behaviors. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1187-1191.

Muller, D., Bushman, B. J., Subra, B., & *Ceaux, E. (in press). Are people more aggressive when they are worse off or better off than others? Social Psychological and Personality Science. The Atlantic article; Inside HigherEd Academic Minute

*Nije Bijvank, M., Konijn, E. A., Bushman, B. J. (2012). “We don't need no education": Video game preferences, video game motivations, and aggressiveness among adolescent boys of different educational ability levels. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 153-162.

Reijntjes, A., Kamphuis, J. H., Thomaes, S., Bushman, B. J., & Telch, M. J. (in press). Too calloused to care: An experimental examination of factors influencing youths’ displaced aggression against their peers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi: 10.1037/a0028619

Reijntjes, A., Thomaes, S., Kamphuis, J. H., Bushman, B. J., Reitz, E., & Telch, M. J. (in press). Youths’ displaced aggression against in- and out-group peers: An experimental examination. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Riva, P., Romero Lauro, L. J., DeWall, C. N., & Bushman, B. J. (in press). Buffer the pain away: Stimulating the rVLPFC reduces pain following social exclusion. Psychological Science.

Rothstein, H. R., & Bushman, B. J. (2012). Publication bias in psychological science: Comment on Ferguson and Brannick (2012). Psychological Methods, 17(1), 129-136.

Thomaes, S., Brummelman, E., Bushman, B. J., & Reijntjes, A. (in press). When Narcissus was a boy: Origins, nature, and consequences of childhood narcissism. Child Development Perspectives.

Thomaes, S., Bushman, B. J., Orobio de Castro, B., & Reijntjes, A. (2012). Arousing “gentle passions” in young adolescents: How value-affirmations influence prosocial feelings and behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 48(1), 103-110.

Vasquez, E. A., Pedersen, W. C., Bushman, B. J., Kelley, N. J., Demeestere, P., & Miller, N. (in press). Lashing out after stewing over public insults: The effects of public provocation, provocation intensity, and rumination on triggered displaced aggression. Aggressive Behavior.

*Whitaker, J. L., & Bushman, B. J. (2012). “Remain calm. Be kind”: Effects of relaxing video games on aggressive and prosocial behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(1), 88-92. Chicago Tribune article

*Whitaker, J. L., & Bushman, B. J. (in press). “Boom, Headshot!”: Effect of violent video game play and controller type on firing aim and accuracy. Communication Research. Discovery News; Video

*Whitaker, J. L., Melzer, A., Steffgen, G., & Bushman, B. J. (in press). The allure of the forbidden: Breaking taboos, frustration, and attraction to violent video games. Psychological Science

*Xu, H., Bègue, L, & Bushman, B. J. (2012). Too fatigued to care: Ego depletion, guilt, and prosocial behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(5), 1183-1186.

DeAndrea, D. C. (2012). Participatory social media and the evaluation of online behavior. Human Communication Research, 38, 510-528.

DeAndrea, D. C., Tong, S. T., Liang, Y., Levine, T. R., & Walther, J. B. (2012). When do people misrepresent themselves to others? The effects of social desirability, accountability, and ground truth on deceptive self-presentations. Journal of Communication, 62, 400-417.

DeAndrea, D. C., Ellison, N.B., LaRose, R., Steinfeld, C., Fiore, A. (2012). Serious social media: On the use of social media for improving students’ adjustment to college. The Internet and Higher Education, 15, 15-23.

Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Garrett, R. K. (in press). Communication modalities and political knowledge. In K. Kenski & K. H. Jamieson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of political communication.

Hayes, A. F., Matthes, J., & Eveland, W. P., Jr. (in press). Stimulating the quasi-statistical organ:Fear of social isolation motivates the quest for knowledge of the opinion climate. Communication Research. Available online 12/1/2011: DOI: 10.1177/0093650211428608.

Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Kleinman, S. B. (in press). Comparing general and political discussion networks within voluntary organizations using social network analysis. Political Behavior. Available online 12/11/11: DOI 10.1007/s11109-011-9187-4.

Eveland, W. P., Jr., Hutchens, M. J., & Morey, A. C. (2012). Social networks and political knowledge. In H. A. Semetko & M. Scammell (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of political communication (pp. 241-252). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Morey, A. C., Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Hutchens, M. J. (2012). The "who" matters: Types of interpersonal relationships and avoidance of political disagreement. Political Communication, 29, 86-103.

Ewoldsen, D. R., *Eno, C. A., *Okdie, B. M., *Velez, J., Guadagno, R. E., & DeCoster, J. (in press). Effect of playing violent video games cooperatively competitively on subsequent cooperative behavior. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Rhodes, N., Ewoldsen, D. R., Shen, L., Monahan, J. L. & *Eno, C. (in press). The accessibility of family and peer norms as predictors of young adolescent risk behavior. Communication Research.

*Rasmussen, E., & Ewoldsen, D. R. (in press). Dr. Phil and Psychology Today as self-help treatments of mental illness: A content analysis of popular psychology programming. Journal of Health Communication.

Slater, M. D., Hayes, A. F., Goodall, C. E., & Ewoldsen, D. R. (in press). Increasing support for alcohol-control enforcement through news coverage of alcohol's role in injuries and crime. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Fox, J., Warber, K. M., & Makstaller, D. (in press). The role of Facebook in romantic relationship development: An exploration of Knapp’s relational stage model. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships.

Fox, J., & Warber, K. M. (in press). Romantic relationship development in the age of Facebook:An exploratory study of emerging adults’ perceptions, motives, and behaviors. CyberPsychology, Behavior, & Social Networking. doi:10.1089/cyber.2012.0288

Fox, J., Bailenson, J. N., & Ricciardi, T. (2012). Physiological responses to virtual selves and virtual others. Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation, 5(1), 69-73.

Garrett, R. Kelly, Erik C. Nisbet, & Emily K. Lynch*. Undermining the corrective effects of media-based political fact checking? The role of contextual cues and naïve theory. Journal of Communication. In Press.

Garrett, R. Kelly, Dustin Carnahan*, Emily K. Lynch*, "A turn toward avoidance? Selective exposure to online political information, 2004-2008". Political Behavior. Vol. Online First.

Garrett, R. Kelly, Bruce Bimber, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, François Heinderyckx, John Kelly, Marc Smith, "New ICTs and the study of political communication". International Journal of Communication.Vol. 6, 214-231. 2012. 

Kim, Young Mie & Kelly Garrett, "On-line and memory-based: Revisiting the relationship between candidate evaluation processing models". Political Behavior. Vol. 34, no. 2: 345-368. 2012.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Glynn, C.J., “Stereotyping in scholarly communication: The Matilda Effect on citations”, accepted for publication in Communication Research (2013)

Glynn, C.J., Huge, M.E. and Hoffman, L.H., “All the news that's fit to post: A profile of news use on social networking sites”, Computers in Human Behavior, (28:1) pp. 113-119, 2012

Berndt, N. C., Hayes, A. F., Verboon, P., Lechner, L., Bolman, C., & De Vries, H. (in press). Self-efficacy mediates the impact of craving on smoking abstinence in low to moderately anxious patients: Results of a moderated mediation approach. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Hayes, A. F., Matthes, J., & Eveland, W. P. Jr. (in press). Stimulating the quasi-statistical organ: Fear of social isolation motivates the quest for knowledge of the opinion climate. Communication Research.

Matthes, J., Hayes, A. F., Rojas, H., Shen, F., Min, S. J., & Dylko, I. (2012). Exemplifying a dispositional approach to cross-cultural spiral of silence research: Fear of social isolation and the inclination to self-censor. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 24, 287-305.

Pollack, J., VanEpps, E. M, & Hayes, A. F. (2012). The moderating role of social ties on entrepreneurs’ depressed affect and withdrawal intentions in response to economic stress. Journal of Organizational Behavior,33, 789-810.

Hayes, A. F., Glynn, C. J., & Huge, M. E. (2012). Cautions regarding the interpretation of regression coefficients and hypothesis tests in linear models with interactions. Communication Methods and Measures, 6, 1-11.

Slater, M. D., Hayes, A. F., Goodall, K., & Ewoldsen, D. (2012). Increasing support for alcohol-control enforcement through news coverage of alcohol’s role in injuries and crime. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73, 311-315.

Holbert, R. L. (in press). Developing a normative approach to political satire: An empirical perspective. International Journal of Communication.

Holbert, R. L., Tchernev, J., Esralew, S. E., Walther, W. O., & Benski, K. (in press).Young voter perceptions of political satire as persuasion: A focus on perceived influence, persuasive intent, and message strength. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.

Holbert, R. L., Esralew, S. E., Lee, J., Walther, W. O., Hmielowski, J. D., & Landreville, K. D. (In press). Affinity for political humor: An assessment of internal factor structure, reliability, and validity. Humor: Interdisciplinary journal of humor research.

Weeks, B. E., & Holbert, R. L. (in press). Predicting dissemination of news content in social media: A focus on reception, friending, and partisanship. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

Holbert, R. L., Hmielowski, J. D., & Weeks, B. E. (2012). Clarifying relations between ideology and ideologically-oriented cable TV News consumption: A case of suppression. Communication Research, 39, 194-216.

Hill, M., Tchernev, J., & Holbert, R. L.(2012). Do we need to go cellular? Assessing political media consumption using a single-frame landline/cellular survey design. Mass Communication & Society, 15, 284-306.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & *Sarge, M. A. (in press). Impacts of exemplification and efficacy as characteristics of an online weight loss message on selective exposure and subsequent weight loss behavior. Communication Research.

Hastall, M. R., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (in press). “Caught in the act”: Measuring selective exposure to experimental online stimuli. Communication Methods and Measures.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & *Johnson, B. K. (in press). Selective exposure for better or worse: Its mediating role for online news' impact on political participation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

*Sarge, M., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (in press). Impacts of efficacy and exemplification in an online message about weight loss on weight management self-efficacy, satisfaction and personal importance. Journal of Health Communication.

Hastall, M. R., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (in press). Severity, efficacy and evidence type as determinants of health message exposure. Health Communication.

*Willis, L. & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (in press). Weighing women down: Messages on weight loss and body shaping in editorial content in popular women’s health and fitness magazines. Health Communication.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & Glynn, C. J. (in press). The Matilda Effect—role congruity effects on scholarly communication: A citation analysis of Communication Research and Journal of Communication articles. Communication Research.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., Glynn, C. J., & Huge, M. (in press). The Matilda Effect in science communication: An experiment on gender bias in publication quality perceptions and collaboration interest. Science Communication.

Appiah, O., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & *Alter, S. (in press). Ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation: Effects of news valence, character race, and recipient race on selective news reading. Journal of Communication.

Westerwick, A., *Kleinman, S., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (in press). Turn a blind eye if you care: Impacts of attitude consistency, importance, and credibility on seeking of political information and implications for attitudes. Journal of Communication.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., *Gong, Y., *Hagner, H., & *Kerbeykian, L. (in press). Tragedy viewers count their blessings: Feeling low on fiction leads to feeling high on life. Communication Research.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (2012). Selective exposure and reinforcement of attitudes and partisanship before a presidential election. Journal of Communication, 62, 628-642.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & *Hoplamazian, G. (2012). Gendering the self: Selective magazine reading and reinforcement of gender conformity. Communication Research, 39, 358-384.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & *Kleinman, S. (2012). Preelection selective exposure: Confirmation bias versus informational utility. Communication Research, 39, 170-193.

Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & *Crane, J. (2012). A losing battle: Effects of prolonged-exposure to thin ideal images on dieting and body satisfaction. Communication Research, 39, 79-102.

*LaMarre, H., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., & *Hoplamazian, G. (2012). Does the music matter? Examining differential effects of music genre on support for ethnic groups. Journal of Electronic Media and Broadcasting, 56, 150-167.

Krieger, J. L., *Coveleski, S., Hecht, M., Miller-Day, M., Graham, J. W., *Pettigrew, J., & Kootsikas, A. (in press). From kids, through kids, to kids: Examining the social influence strategies used by adolescents to promote prevention among peers. Health Communication.

Krieger, J. L., Katz, M. L., *Eisenberg, D., *Heaner, S., *Sarge, M, & *Jain, P. (in press). Media coverage of cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine: Implications for geographic health inequities. Health Expectations.

Krieger, J. L., & *Sarge, M. A. (in press). A serial multiple mediation model of message framing on intentions to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: Revisiting the role of threat and efficacy. Health Communication.

*Choi, H. J., Krieger, J. L., & Hecht, M. (in press). Reconceptualizing efficacy in substance use prevention research: Refusal response efficacy and drug resistant self efficacy in adolescent substance use. Health Communication.

Colby, M., Hecht, M. L., Miller-Day, M., Krieger, J. L., Syvertsen, A. K., Graham, J. W., & *Pettigrew, J. (in press). Adapting school-based substance use prevention curriculum through cultural grounding: A review and exemplar of adaptation processes for rural schools. American Journal of Community Psychology.

Miller-Day, M., *Pettigrew, J., Hecht, M. L., *Shin, Y., Graham, J., & Krieger , J. L. (in press).How prevention curricula are taught under real-world conditions: Types of and reasons for teacher curriculum adaptations in 7th grade drug prevention curriculum. Health Education.

*Moreland, J. J., Krieger, J. L., Miller-Day, M., & Hecht, M. L. (in press). The conceptualization and communication of risk among rural Appalachian adolescents. Journal of Health Communication.

Katz, M. L., Kam, J. A., Krieger, J. L., & Roberto, A. J. (2012). Predicting HPV vaccine intentions of college-age males: An examination of parents and son’s perceptions. Journal of American College Health, 60, 449-459.

Krieger, J. L., Katz, M., Kam, J., & Roberto, A. (2012). Appalachian and non-Appalachian pediatricians’ encouragement of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: Implications for health disparities. Women’s Health Issues, 22, e19-e26.

*Pettigrew, J., Miller-Day, M., Krieger, J. L., & Hecht, M.L. (2012). The rural context of illicit substance offers: A study of Appalachian rural adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 27, 523-550. doi: 10.1177/0743558411432639

Pettigrew, J., Miller-Day, M., Shin, Y., Hecht, M. L., Krieger, J. L., & Graham, J. W. (2012). Describing teacher-student interactions: A qualitative assessment of teacher implementation of the 7th grade keepin’ it REAL substance use intervention. American Journal of Community Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s10464-012-9539-1

Story, H., Love, R. R., Salim, R., Roberto, A. J., Krieger, J. L., & Ginsburg, O. M. (2012). Improving outcomes from breast cancer in a low income country: Lessons from Bangladesh. International Journal of Breast Cancer, 2012, 1-9.

Lee, J.-E. R., Moore, D. C. *, Park, E.-A., Park, S. G. (2012). Who wants to be “friend-rich”?: Social compensatory friending on Facebook and the moderating role of public self-consciousness. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 1036-1043.

*Hope College student author

Lee, J.-E. R., Rao, S., Nass, C., Forssell, K., & John, J. M. (2012). When do online shoppers appreciate security enhancement efforts? Effects of financial risk and security level on evaluations of customer authentication. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 70, 364-376.

Lee, J.-E. R. & Nass, C. (2012). Distinctiveness-based stereotype threat and the moderating role of coaction context. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 192-199.

McDonald, D.G., Sarge, M., Lin, S-F., Collier, J., & Potocki, B. (in press, 2013). A Role for the Self: Media Content as Triggers for Autobiographical Memories. Communication Research.

McDonald, D.G. & Johnson, B.L. (in press, 2013). Is time money? Media expenditures in economic and technological turbulence. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.

McDonald, Daniel G. & Dale, K. (2013) “Internet.” Revised entry in The International Encyclopedia of Communication. W. Donsbach (ed.) Blackwell. (a)Velez, J., (c) Mahood, C., (b) Ewoldsen, D. R., & Moyer-Gusé, E. (In Press). Ingroup versus outgroup conflict in the context of violent video game play: The effect of cooperation on increased helping and decreased aggression. Communication Research.

(c) Riddle, K., (b) Cantor, J., (c) Byrne, S., & Moyer-Gusé, E. (2012). “People killing people in the news”: Young children’s descriptions of frightening television news content. Communication Quarterly, 60, 278-294.

Moyer-Gusé, E., (a) Jain, P., & (a) Chung, A. (2012). Reinforcement or reactance? Examining the effect of an explicit persuasive appeal following an entertainment-education narrative. Journal of Communication, 62, 1010-1027.

Nathanson, A. I., & Manohar, U. (2012). The Role of Attachment in College Students’ Working Models of Parenting and Expectations for Using Television in Child Rearing. Family Relations, 61, 441-454.

Gentile, D. A., Nathanson, A. I., Rasmussen, E. E., Reimer, R. A., & Walsh, D. A. (2012). Do You See What I See? Comparing Parent and Child Reports of Parental Monitoring of Children's Media. Family Relations, 61, 470-487.

Nisbet, E.C. & Stoycheff, E. (in press). Let the people speak: a multi-level model of supply and demand for press freedom. Communication Research. doi: 10.1177/0093650211429117

Hart, P.S. & Nisbet, E.C. (2012). Boomerang effects in science communication: How motivated reasoning and identity cues amplify opinion polarization about climate mitigation policies. Communication Research., 39(6), 701-723 doi: 10.1177/0093650211416646

Nisbet, E.C., Stoycheff, E., & Pearce, K. E., (2012). Internet use and democratic demands: A multi-national, multi-level model of internet use and citizen attitudes about democracy. Journal of Communication. 62(1), 249-262 doi: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01627.x

Fahmy, S., Wanta, W., and Nisbet, E.C. (2012). Mediated public diplomacy: satellite TV news in the Arab world and perception effects. International Communication Gazette, 74, 8 728-749

Behm-Morawitz, E., & Ortiz, M. (2013). Race, ethnicity, and the media. In K. Dill (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology (pp. 252-266). New York: Oxford University Press.

Powers, S. R., & Trust, R. I. 2012. Contribution of Direct and Indirect Parental Communication about Anger to Adult Anger Expression in Romantic Relationships. Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 77, no. 2. : 2-25.

Schwartz, Thomas A. “The Law in Modern Society,” in W. Wat Hopkins, ed., Communication and the Law, 2013 ed. (Northport, Ala.: Vision Press, 2013), pp. 1‐22 (textbook chapter)

Goodall, C.E., Slater, M.D., & *Myers, T. (In press). Fear and anger responses to local news coverage of alcohol-related crimes, accidents, and injuries: Explaining news effects on policy support. Journal of Communication.

Slater, M.D. & Henry, K.L. (In press). Prospective influence of music-related media exposure on adolescent substance-use initiation: A peer group mediation model. Journal of Health Communication.

*Jain, P. & Slater, M.D. (In press). Provider portrayals and patient-provider communication in drama and reality medical entertainment television shows. Journal of Health Communication.

Henry, K.L., *Shtivelband, A., *Comello, M.L.G., & Slater, M.D. (In press). The belief that alcohol use is inconsistent with personal autonomy: A promotive factor for younger adolescents. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education.

*Lovegrove, P., Henry, K.L., & Slater, M.D. (In press). Examination of the predictors of latent class typologies of bullying involvement among middle school students. Journal of School Violence.

Slater, M.D., & *Gleason, L. (2012). “Contributing to theory and knowledge in quantitative communication science. Communication Methods and Measures, 6: 1-21.

Slater, M.D., Hayes, A.F., Goodall, C.E., & Ewoldsen, D. (2012). Increasing support for alcohol-control enforcement through news coverage of alcohol's role in injuries and crime. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73, 311-315.

Van Der Heide, B., Johnson, B. K., & Vang, M. H. (in press). The effects of product photographs and reputation systems on consumer bidding and product cost on eBay. Computers in Human Behavior. (2.476; 0 citations).

Van Der Heide, B., Schumaker, E. M., Peterson, A., & Jones, E. (in press). The Proteus effect in dyadic communication: Examining the effect of avatar appearance in computer-mediated dyadic interaction. Communication Research. (2.350; 0 citations).

D’Angelo, J. D., & Van Der Heide, B. (in press). The formation of physician impressions in online communities: Negativity, positivity, and non-normativity effects. Communication Research. (2.350; 0 citations).

Westerman, D., Spence, P. R., & Van Der Heide, B. (in press). Social media as an information source: Recency of updates and credibility of information. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. (4.568; 0 citations).

Lapinski, M. K., Neuberger, L., Gore, M., & Muter, B., & Van Der Heide, B. (in press). Shark bytes: Message sensation value and emotional appeals in shark diving websites. Journal of Risk Research. (1.173; 0 citations).

Westerman, D., Spence, P. R., & Van Der Heide, B. (2012). A social network as information: The effect of system generated reports of connectedness on credibility on Twitter. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 199-206. (2.476; 0 citations).

Van Der Heide, B., D’Angelo, J. D., & Schumaker, E. M. (2012). The effects of verbal vs. photographic self-presentation on impression formation in Facebook. Journal of Communication, 62, 98-116. (3.841; 1 citation).

Wang, Z., & b Busemeyer, J. R. (in press). A quantum question order model supported by empirical tests of an a priori and precise prediction. Topics in Cognitive Science. [Impact Factor: 2.885]

b Brainerd, C., Wang, Z., & b Reyna, V. (in press). Superposition of episodic memories: Overdistribution and quantum models. Topics in Cognitive Science. [Impact Factor: 2.885] 

b Lang, A., c Sanders‐Jackson, A., Wang, Z., & a Rebenking, B. (in press). Motivated message processing: How motivational activation influences resource allocation, encoding, and storage of TV messages. Motivation and Emotion. [Impact Factor: 2.294]

Wang, Z., a Morey, A. C., & a Srivastava, J. (in press). Motivated selective attention during political ad processing: The dynamic interplay between emotional ad content and candidate evaluation. Communication Research. doi: 10.1177/0093650212441793 [published online first] [Impact Factor: 2.350]

Wang, Z., a Solloway, T., a Tchernev, J., & a Barker, B. (2012). Dynamic motivational processing of anti‐marijuana messages: Coactivation begets attention. Human Communication Research, 38, 485‐509. [Impact Factor: 2.667]

Wang, Z., a Tchernev, J., & a Solloway, T. (2012). A dynamic longitudinal examination of social media use, needs, and gratifications among college students. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 1829‐1839. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.05.001 [Impact Factor: 2.476]

Wang, Z., & a Tchernev, J. (2012). The “myth” of media multitasking: Reciprocal dynamics of media multitasking, personal needs, and gratifications. Journal of Communication, 62, 493‐513. doi:10.1111/j.1460‐2466.2012.01641.x [Impact Factor: 3.841]

Wang, Z., b David, P., a Srivastava, J., c Powers, S. R., a D’Ángelo, J., a Brady, C., & a Moreland, J. (2012). Behavioral performance and visual attention in communication multitasking: A comparison between instant messaging and online voice chat. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 968‐975. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.12.018 [Impact Factor: 2.476]

Wang, Z., & b Lang, A. (2012).Reconceptualizing excitation transfer as motivational activation changes and a test of the television program context effects. Media Psychology, 15, 68‐92. doi: 10.1080/15213269.2011.649604 [Impact Factor: 1.925]