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This study investigated whether freedom-threat and psychological reactance could be dampened when ever-vapers (i.e., people who have tried vaping) are inoculated with a forewarning of an impending exposure…
The aim of this study is to determine if a broad-based inoculation message strategy will undermine thepersuasive influence of conspiracy theories. In this experiment, we (1) investigate individual…
Digital environmental information presented with low web accessibility reduces participation in environmental advocacy and information seeking behaviors for many people with disabilities, creating a consequential digital divide. We…
In response to the International Communication Association’s 2022 theme, “One World, One Network,” we argue that one way to expand the notion of ‘One World’ and to signal…
Josh Compton, Professor of Speech and covert stutterer, has been thinking about voice all his life, from his childhood struggles with fluency to his recent research on public speaking…
Conspiracy theories pose a variety of social and psychological consequences for individuals and society, and research suggests that around half of the U.S. population believes at least one….
The World Clown Association (WCA) released a press kit in anticipation of potential negative effects on the image of clowns from the release of a film version of…
In recent years, many kinds of interventions have been developed that seek to reduce susceptibility to misinformation. In two preregistered longitudinal studies (N1 = 503, N2 = 673), we leverage two previously validated…
Inoculation theory is a theory of resistance to influence that builds on analogous relationships with medical vaccination. In short: Exposure to weakened forms of challenges motivates resistance to…
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s Health Heroes series was a marketing effort comprised of published narratives in booklet form. One such publication, Health Heroes: Edward Jenner, told the story of Jenner’s…