Assistant Professor @ManshipSchool | Alum @PSUBellisario | Health Comm; Digital Advertising
Joined February 2019
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18 Sep 2025
Do memes, GIFs, and emojis actually help us stay close? 💬💖 Our meme-ingful paper (w/@JinChen_bd) shows these little icons aren’t just for laughs, they help with self-disclosure, intimacy, and relationship maintenance. Icons = connection 💌
🔗: doi.org/10.5817/CP2025-4-11
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13 Feb 2025
Amazing week @iMotionsGlobal in Copenhagen with my awesome colleagues @msand37 & Hyojung Park!
Learned biometric tools from eye tracking & facial expressions to GSR, ECG & EEG. Can't wait to put it all to work ✨ @ManshipSchool
#MediaEffectsLab #BiometricResearch
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17 Oct 2024
We're recruiting PhD students for fall 2025!
Our doctoral program in Media and Public Affairs @LSU offers hands-on experiences, expert mentorship, and cutting-edge academics to prepare you for real-world impact. Travel support included.
Applications due January 25.
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4 Sep 2024
New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02078
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24 Aug 2024
📢 New study: Health enthusiasts falling for misinfo? Our research shows the more you think you know about health, the easier you're duped. Being a 'know-it-all' might make you a 'believe-it-all'! 🤯 #Misinfo #DunningKrugerEffect Check our findings here👇 bit.ly/3MgF59F
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12 Aug 2024
Feeling stressed? Our latest research (w/ @RachelPaeng) reveals that a small dose of cute media can cut stress by boosting emotions & coping efficacy! And yes, trait anxiety matters.🐾✨Get a free copy of our paper in #HealthCommunication using the link👇
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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🎉Celebrating the first week of teahching with a new publication! Thrilled to feature in a special issue @CogitatioMaC alongside brilliant news deserts experts. This is an emperical spatial analysis of newspaper circulation at the US county level using data from @auditedmedia
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11 May 2023
PHinisheD 👩🏻🎓✅ Huge thanks to my committee members for the invaluable guidance and support 🥰. Also super thankful for all the support from my friends and peers! ❤️
11 May 2023
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. @paeng620, who passed her dissertation defense today! With advisor Fuyuan Shen and committee members @JessMyrick, Heather Shoenberger, and @burtmonroe.
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19 Jan 2023
🚨🚨🚨Announcing the 2023 SUMMER INSTITUTES IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE 🚨🚨🚨 This program will run in 28 locations around the globe this year! Learn more (and apply) at: sicss.io/locations
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7 Nov 2022
A lot of Machine Learning (ML) I learned during my Ph.D. was from youtube. I didn't have a guide to do this effectively and thus here it is:
A complete guide to studying ML from youtube: 13 best and most recent ML courses available on YouTube. 👩🏫🧵⤵️
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12 Oct 2022
Today I'm releasing a manuscript on stance detection! What is stance detection? It's what we should be doing instead of sentiment analysis most of the time. Feedback welcome!
drive.google.com/drive/u/1/f…
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1 Jul 2022
📣New pub: Excited to share my first solo-authored paper. By taking into account health anxiety, this work examines the processes by which people transition from online searches to the pursuit of healthcare assistance and further searches. Check it out 🙌🏻: doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.1…
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1 Jul 2022
Health anxious individuals may experience a conflict between the impulse to alleviate health anxiety by engaging in online search again, and the need to protect their psychological well-being by not doing so. 2/3
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Among people who perceived greater levels of illness likelihood, only those who feel more capable of handling online information are more engaged in repeated searches. As a result, for people who cannot solve this conflict, they may decide not to engage in the repeated search.3/3
11 Jun 2022
📣 New pub alert: Excited to share our research on perceived risk, political polarization, and COVID-19 mitigation intention in @socscimed. Big shoutout to my brilliant coauthors: @rayblock1, @ML_Burn, @kaylakahn, Jeremy Seeman, & @Chris_H_Seto !!! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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13 May 2022
Hit a milestone for my PhD!!!🥂
Thank you so much, my advisor Dr. Fuyuan Shen, my committee members Dr. Heather Shoenberger, Dr. Jessica Gall Myrick, and Dr. Burt L. Monroe. Thanks for your endless support. I am truly blessed to have you as my mentors!!! 🥰
13 May 2022
Congratulations to PhD candidate @paeng620, who defended her comprehensive exams! With advisor Fuyuan Shen and committee members @JessMyrick, Heather Shoenberger, and @burtmonroe.
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21 Mar 2021
I've tasked the students in my grad seminar with writing a discussion section for a paper. They get a paper with everything but the discussion.
Folks in comm & the social sciences: What are your tips for writing a discussion? What distinguishes a great from a good discussion?
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