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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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

Proud of this project!

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...

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:

Out now in Scientific Reports! Despite high correlations, ChatGPT models failed to replicate human moral judgments. We propose tests beyond correlation to compare LLM data and human data. With @mattgrizz.bsky.social @andyluttrell.bsky.social @chasmonge.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OSU Comm is hiring an Assoc. or Full Prof. We are seeking someone to provide leadership for our undergrad journ program. The research focus includes journ, public opinion, audience analytics, science comm, or media economics, or other related topics. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Episode 108! @mattgrizz.bsky.social helps us appreciate the importance of characters in entertainment...using science! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3Hpf... Web: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/char...

Super cool work!

OSU School of Communication alumni (and especially our grad alumni), we're hosting a reunion on Sept. 12, 2025, where we'll be opening and dedicating the new Lantern Newsroom. Mark your calendars! @beccafraz.bsky.social @morganellithorpe.bsky.social @wattsupdoc.bsky.social @austinhubner.bsky.social

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Happy to share that our conceptualization and scale validation for character depth is now published in Media Psychology (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) Much thanks to co-authors @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse. PDF at tinyurl.com/4etux967.

Gainesville with a winter storm watch? 😯

Best lab now has the best notebooks!

For all the new-to-ICA co-authors (not first/presenting authors) of accepted ICA papers who received this email that implies your required attendance, rest assured that--unless something dramatic has changed--the attendance of non-presenting co-authors is NOT required... 1/3

"Let's submit that paper. It's ready to go. Should only take a second to upload it in the Editorial Manager."

Why do we choose the media we choose? Check out The Ohio State University colleagues mattgrizz.bsky.social and Sara Grady and the latest podcast, online at www.osu.edu/impact/now-a....

Very excited to see @mattgrizz.bsky.social and my reconceptualization of Bandura's selective moral disengagement (SMD) now published at Comm Theory! shorturl.at/cvU23 We integrate SMD w/ social intuitionist theories and propose a two-stage moral signal detection process... [1/2]

We're looking to hire 3 new science or health communication faculty at the University of Florida. Please share. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/52...

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