The Department of AI and Society at the University at Buffalo, invites applications from outstanding scholars with excellent leadership abilities for the position of Department Chair. The Department o...

Abstract. We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 160 media literacy interventions from 1983 to 2023, finding overall positive effects. Effects were

Although much attention has been given to vaccine hesitancy, there is still considerable ambiguity regarding its epistemological antecedents. The current meta-analysis addresses this theoretical an...

Researchers often invoke individual-level correlations (correlations between properties of individuals) as a basis for message-level claims (claims about properties of messages). For example: “Peop...

The Boster et al. (2012) superdiffuser model predicts that a health behavior change can be diffused through a social network by recruiting superdiffusers, a type of opinion leader who possesses 3 k...

Valid and reliable measurement of media and communication exposure is crucial for communication science, psychology, political science, sociology, pedagogy, economics, and law, and the practitioners i...

The study of narrative persuasion has increased dramatically in the past decade. Whereas much of this research focuses on story and character involvement, the role of emotion—and emotional flow spe...

Published in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1990)

Researchers often invoke individual-level correlations (correlations between properties of individuals) as a basis for message-level claims (claims about properties of messages). For example: “Peop...