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Journal of Communication @journal-of-comm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Pub Alert! Introducing JoC publication: “Walking the moral plank: using virtual reality to investigate moral decision-making under threat”, by Joomi Lee, @baldwin-j-a.bsky.social @lindsayhahn.bsky.social Glenna Read @sunjooahn.bsky.social Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

5/n We engage this debate by taking a slightly different approach Rather than ask if summary statistics detect bots after the fact, we ask: what does it actually take to build a bot that can do a real task, live, through a browser, under real timing constraints?

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Screenshot of a manuscript title page. Title: “An AI agent can complete the Attention Network Test with human-like behavioral signatures: Implications for the bot-or-not debate.” Authors: Richard Huskey, Ziyu Zhao, Douglas A. Parry, and Jacob T. Fisher, with university affiliations listed below. The abstract says an autonomous AI agent completed the Attention Network Test in real time and produced mostly human-like behavioral data. Across seven code revisions, the bot achieved attention network scores within published human norms, 95.8% accuracy, and reaction-time patterns showing positive skew and trial-to-trial autocorrelation. Compared with 796 human participants, the bot fell within the human range on several measures but showed elevated autocorrelation and a bimodal reaction-time distribution due to intermittent detection failures. The paper argues this makes simple bot-vs-human detection harder in online reaction-time studies.

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Jacob T. Fisher @jacobtfisher.online · 18/03/2026

Hey y'all! Very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting Communication Science Futures again in East Lansing later this year. The conference in 2024 was a blast, and we're looking forward to running it back! Keynote speaker: James Pennebaker Submission deadline: June 5th. → commscifutures.com

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Home | Communication Science Futures

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

How do we deal with rich, multilevel, and multimodal data? In a new preprint, @rachaelkee.bsky.social and I sketch an answer! For all the details, and the preprint link, see Rachael’s thread. Be sure to give her a follow, especially if you’re interested in neuroscience, sleep, and media!

Three-panel infographic illustrating Marr’s Levels of analysis in a study of repeated exposure to crime media.
(a) At the top left, a diagram labeled “Marr’s Levels” shows three stacked boxes: 1. Computation (why / problem) in orange, 2. Algorithm (what / rules) in coral, and 3. Implementation (how / physical) in dark red.
(b) At the top right, an illustration of a person looking at a smartphone surrounded by social media icons, a warning symbol, and a clock, labeled “Repeated exposure to crime media.”
(c) The bottom row maps each level to research methods: Computation shows a person with checklist icons and the text “EMA/ESM surveys, in-app surveys, pop-up questionnaires.” Algorithm shows a smartphone social media interface with the text “Digital trace data, smartphone usage logs, screen time APIs.” Implementation shows a person interacting with a smartwatch and the text “Wearable biometric sensors (e.g., smartwatches, Oura ring), consumer-grade EEG (e.g., MUSE headbands), eyetracking devices (e.g., Gazepoint GP3).”

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Rachael Kee @rachaelkee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🚨 New Preprint Alert 🚨 Communication science has no shortage of data. But what do we do with all of it? Experience sampling, sensors, digital trace, location aware observations are growing in popularity and scale.

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Matthew Grizzard @mattgrizz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

1/ 🧵PROCESS Model 4 is the wrong tool to test mediation in an experiment. The c’ path turns prediction into description and prevents falsification. New preprint with @chriscarpenter.bsky.social and @beccafraz.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/ps... explains why.

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Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

For the start of the year, we thought we'd do a quick update on the journal from launch to date, rather than just the last two months. How are we looking 8 months in? Let's check it out! So ... for some (ac)counting ...

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Rebecca Frazer @beccafraz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Excited to share our latest work in Acta Psychologica (with @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse) on the influence of character depth on affective disposition processes (ADT) across five unfolding acts of a story (pre-registered). Results show... (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Researching communication, AI, or algorithms? Join us at Comm Horizons 2026! Keynotes from Jeff Hancock & @angelhwang.bsky.social, high-quality competitive programming, great feedback, & Napa wine tasting. Abstract deadline approaching fast: March 1 (AOE) communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

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Comm Horizons @ UCD 2026: Communication in the Age of AI and Algorithms

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Depressed? Anxious? Lonely? What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media? In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵Thread

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Using the Drift Diffusion Model to Examine Relationships Between Mental Health and Media Selection Dynamics

A substantial body of research has investigated how people’s transient affective state influences their media selection, as well as how selected media influences subsequent affective states. However, ...

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Wooooo so happy this is finally out! 🎉 And even happier that it’s the product of some truly collaborative work with such an amazing team!!

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Sometimes you see a new paper and stop everything you are doing to read it. This is one of those papers. All-star work by an all-star team!

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Allison Eden @aeden.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Very excited about this project introducing an integrative character-based network framework predicting success of novels and films. Idea and analysis credit to @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, with big thanks for including me, @fhopp.bsky.social @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Anna Wolfe. More info here:

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Xuanjun (Jason) Gong @gongxuanjun.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Enjoying Stranger Things during the holiday season? Have you thought about why some stories are more successful than others? Our new preprint investigates this question by studying the character networks in the narratives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This is going to ruin the tour www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Screenshot of a PNAS research article titled “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” The article is authored by Sean J. Westwood and edited by James N. Druckman. It notes the submission date (July 9, 2025), acceptance date (September 12, 2025), and publication date (November 20, 2025).

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I’ll have more to say about this paper in a bit, but very excited about it. Helps to explain why punishment doesn’t work to improve cooperation, why people still punish anyway, and what it implies about the evolution of cooperation and criminal justice policy www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Profitable third-party punishment destabilizes cooperation | PNAS

Third-party punishment is theorized by some scholars to be essential to the evolution of large-scale cooperation, but empirically, it often fails t...

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Vladimir Bojarskich @vbojarskich.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

💥 New preprint out: "Ideological (A-)Symmetries in Moral Judgments of Online Hate" with Meltem Yucel, Lindsay Hahn, Tobias Rothmund & myself. How do liberals & conservatives morally evaluate online hate? 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/

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Joshua Baldwin Ph.D. @baldwin-j-a.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Boston University as an Assistant Professor in Media Psychology and AI. I’ll be part of the Department of Mass Comm, Advertising, & PR as well as the Division of Emerging Media Studies. I’m excited to work with this incredible group of scholars.

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🧵 1/ How does the field of Communication use the GRE for PhD admissions? Ellie Mercedes Ross, @laramiet.bsky.social, & I set out to answer this question. Our paper explores how GRE usage, particularly minimum score thresholds, can filter out certain racial & ethnic groups doi.org/10.1080/1064...

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GRE Thresholds, Filtering, and Equity: A Pandemic-Era Reassessment of Communication Doctoral Admissions

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Communication PhD programs reconsidered the use of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) amid concerns about structural inequities in graduate admissions. We examined ...

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We’re at #SANS2025! Catch our Blitz Talk (Session #2) + Poster (P2-A-5) on how negative and high-arousal news shape decision-making. Most research focuses on how the negativity bias captures our attention. We clarify what happens next! High-res poster here: cogcommscience.com/were-at-sans...

Poster titled “Negatively Valenced and High-Arousal News Headlines Drive Preferential Evidence Accumulation and Influence Selection” by Gong et al. Presented at the SANS 2025 Annual Meeting. The poster features four main sections: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. The Background summarizes prior research on negativity bias and its political implications. The Methods section describes two studies: a behavioral study with 300 nationally representative participants and an fMRI study with 30 young adults (16 Democrats, 14 Republicans). Participants completed a two-choice task involving 140 economic news headlines generated and rated for emotional valence and arousal. The Results show that negatively valenced, high-arousal headlines produced faster evidence accumulation (higher drift rate), moderated by political ideology. fMRI results revealed subcortical brain activation (e.g., caudate, nucleus accumbens, thalamus) that correlated with drift rate. Graphs display estimated drift rates across political groups and brain activity contrasts for valence and arousal. The Conclusions highlight that, when arousal and valence are statistically separated, both drive preference, supporting a value-based model of decision making. Institutional affiliations and references are listed at the bottom.

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Anaëlle Gonzalez @gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Excited to be back in Buffalo NY for the Moral Media Conference! I’ll be presenting my last PhD chapter on the longitudinal links between adolescents’ moral values and exposure to influencers’ moral content together with @lindsayhahn.bsky.social and @lauravandenbosch.bsky.social ✨ #moralmedia25

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

After nearly 6 years, I'm delighted to share a new paper in Journal of Media Psychology: "Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0". We studied cooperation using AR & low-cost EEG hyperscanning (doi.org/10.1027/1864...). 🧵Here’s how it started, what we found, & why it matters

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Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0: Using AR and Mobile EEG Hyperscanning to Study Cooperation: Journal of Media Psychology: Vol 37, No 2

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J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

@lindsayhahn.bsky.social advocates for translational science principles to bridge the gap between CAM research, public understanding & policy on media’s effects on children by, for instance, prioritizing research addressing caregivers’ and educators’ needs (6/8) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A call for the adoption of translational science principles in children’s media effects research

Published in Journal of Children and Media (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This looks ahhhhhhhhhhmazing!!!! What a lineup and innovative format for a conference!

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thrilled to announce keynote speakers for #moralmedia25 - Drs. Helena Bilandzic (U Augsburg), @mdehghani.bsky.social (U Southern California), @aeden.bsky.social (Michigan State U), & @fhopp.bsky.social (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). Submissions are due Feb 2!

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🚨 Join us for #CommHorizons25, hosted by the Department of Communication @ucdavis.bsky.social! Theme: Media, Health, & Society: Exploring Wellbeing Across Lifespans & Diverse Communities Keynotes: Drs. Dana Mastro & @davidmmarkowitz.bsky.social. Info: communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...

Three books, colored yellow, red, and blue, between a pair of over-the-ear headphones.

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Journal of Media Psychology @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Dr. Allison Eden will be a keynote speaker for the Moral Media conference in April. She is an Associate Professor at Michigan State. Some of her interests include media enjoyment. Read more here: moralmedia.org/annual-meeti...

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Maddie Taggart presenting more of our lab’s latest work on the role of threatening news in explaining extreme prejudice

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Kyle Heneveld presenting some of our lab’s latest work examining how humor can facilitate hate #NCA2024

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Irina Andreeva presenting some of our lab’s latest research into audiences’ experiences with narrative cliffhangers #NCA2024

Academic presentation on narrative cliffhangers

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NCA Comm + Social Cognition Division @ncacsc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In the meantime, feel free to save this overview of the #NCACSC events at this year's conference. If you have announcements (like 🥂 receptions, 👀 cool work, or other news), please let us know so we can share the word!

Description of events for the CSC Division at this year's NCA. Text on the image reads as follows:

Thu. 11/21
11a-12p • Preservation Hall 8
You Can't Fool Me! Deception Detection, Message Construction, and Continued Conversation

1a-2:15p • Preservation Hall 8
Advancements in Media Psychology & Effects: The Role of Content & Context

2:30-3:45p • Preservation Hall 4/5
Report from the Future: Communication Science Futures

Fri. 11/22
9:30-10:45a • Preservation Hall 8
Top Student Papers in Communication and Social Cognition

11a-12:15p • Preservation Hall 8
Top Papers in Communication and Social Cognition

1-2:15p • Preservation Hall 8
Communication + Social Cognition Business Meeting

Sat. 11/23
11a-12:15p • Preservation Hall 8
From Reuters to Reddit: News and Social Media
Reception & Effects

4-5:15p • Preservation Hall 8
Reactance, Resistance, & Retribution: Insights on
Negative Responses to Messages

Sun. 11/24
11a-12p • Preservation Hall 8
Group Belonging in Communication Processes

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NCA Comm + Social Cognition Division @ncacsc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey everybody! With NCA 2024 coming up this week, we thought that we would do a trial run using BlueSky to connect with folks this year. We'll also be using this page to share info about our panels and business meetings, and to signal boost announcements and other posts from around NCA!

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Matthew Grizzard @mattgrizz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Introduce yourself as a TV character

Tim Robinson on the adult ghost tour raising his hand to ask a question, not joking and not wanting anyone to have the worst day on their job.

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Who we spend time with as we age - the challenge of loneliness in old age qz.com/1010901/the-...

Chart shows that time with friends, colleagues, siblings, and children diminishes over the course of a lifetime. The older we get, the more the person we spend the most time with is the one we see in the mirror.

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Experience sampling studies find that ostracism is experienced between 2 to 3 times a week! When ostracism is less severe people become more affiliative, but when it's more severe they are more likely to withdraw pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39172433/

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Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Looking forward to this event series planned by #QuestioningReality fellows @joomi.bsky.social @lindsayhahn.bsky.social, @xrprof.bsky.social, and Benjy Li.

3 avatars representing Lindsay Hahn, Danny Pimental, and Joomi Lee in Engage VR.

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Check out my conversation on the Opinion Science podcast! Thanks so much for having me @andyluttrell.bsky.social!!!

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better. PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

How do violent extremists persuade otherwise decent citizens to join their causes? We tried to answer this question, and I’m very excited that the paper reporting our findings is finally out in the wild! academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

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Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their a...

Abstract. How do terrorists persuade otherwise decent citizens to join their violent causes? Guided by early mass communication research investigating propagand

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

A special collection in the APA journal Technology, Mind, & Behavior on Humans and Generative AI, that I'll be co-editing. If you're working in this space, please consider submitting: tmb.apaopen.org/pub/kavv21gg/releas… #genai #haii #comm #hmc #ai

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Call for Papers: Special Collection: Humans and Generative AI · Technology, Mind, and Behavior

Special Collection Editors: Jaime Banks, Nicole Krämer, and Rhonda McEwen

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

We’re hiring at the University at Buffalo! 🦬 The Department of Communication is looking for an Assistant Professor who specializes in information integrity (broadly defined). Please reach out with any questions! www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/43990

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

We're hiring in the The Department of Communication at UC Davis! Searching for an Assistant Professor of Mediated Interpersonal Communication. Reviews begin after Oct. 15, 2023. I'm not on the committee but I am glad to answer questions you may have recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05935

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Hi #PsychSci #PsychSciSky #Psychology! 👋🏼 I’m an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo where I direct the Media Psychology & Morality Lab. I research media psychology, morality, and media effects. #Introduction

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