Pub Alert! Introducing new JoC publication: “Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health”, by Rong Ma, @zxma.bsky.social Callie Kalny, Nathan Walter. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...

My recent publication on the role of sympathy in communicating alcohol and cancer risk and promoting drinking behavior change has been selected as an Editor’s Choice article in Health Education Research. It will be free to access for six months. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/her/article/...

Reading social media stories evokes a wide range of contextual reader reactions—inferential, affective, evaluative—yet we lack methods to study these at scale. Excited to share our new paper that builds a framework for analyzing storytelling practices across online communities!

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Very happy to update the {traktok} #rstats readme. After 1.5 years, you can finally search TikTok again without access to the Research API. It's slow and a bit clunky, but it works! Thanks, @michaelgoodier.bsky.social for the crucial hint!

Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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🚨New pub with @drxnan.bsky.social on a systematic review of reviews of narrative persuasion: academic.oup.com/anncom/artic...

Hey #ica25, introducing The Mobile Observation of Advertising Toolkit, a new app for capturing ads in the wild from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, & YouTube. @icacm.bsky.social Data Collection Tools & Datasets Sunday 15th | 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Colorado B (Grand 2) @internetobservatory.org.au

Leading up to #ICA25 we're sharing info on Top Paper recipients. Today, you can read about "Effects of Narrative versus Non-Narrative Pictorial Warning Labels on Visual Attention and Alcohol-Related Cancer Risk Perceptions" by Zexin Ma, Joshua Haworth, & Jun Hu: commscience.org/ica-top-pape...

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.

Thank you to @instalcstud.bsky.social for inviting me to share our work! Check out my previous post to learn more about my research on communicating the cancer risks of alcohol.

Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/h... I have been working on this topic for several years with colleagues at @uconn.bsky.social, @oaklandu.bsky.social and beyond. I share my relevant publications in this thread.

Always a pleasure to work with and learn from amazing @elizabethahintz.bsky.social