Chris Skurka (@skurka_chris) 's Twitter Profile
Chris Skurka

@skurka_chris

Assistant professor @PSUBellisario | media effects + #SciComm + #HealthComm + emotion | he/him | 🏳️‍🌈 | opinions mine | chrisskurka.bsky.social

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linkhttps://www.bellisario.psu.edu/people/individual/chris-skurka calendar_today14-06-2018 04:58:18

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Yiwei Xu (@yiweixuphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Postdoc Job Alert! The Center for an Informed Public UW iSchool University of Washington is hiring up to two Postdoctoral Fellows to join us in #Seattle #PNW: apply.interfolio.com/157210. As a current postdoc here, I can’t recommend CIP enough - it’s an incredible community to be part of!

MediaPsychMEP (@mediapsychmep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New issue out! Does alternating between scenes of natural beauty and human impact in pro-environmental content change how viewers respond emotionally? Chris Skurka, Nahyun Kim, Nicholas Eng, and @olivermb investigated this question in their latest study.

Jerusalem (@jerusalemdemsas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8. If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her.

New >> California and New York are projected to lose up to 8 electoral votes in 2030. Texas and Florida are projected to gain 8. 

If Kamala Harris had to compete with that map, even winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin wouldn’t have saved her.
Anna Freytag (@a_freeday) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How do nature documentaries entertain us hedonically & eudaimonically? What's the role of awe & suspense? Do they inspire conservation or travel, increasing co2 footprint? Findings from our experiments are now published in Mass Communication & Society (Taylor & Francis) (open access): doi.org/10.1080/152054…

How do nature documentaries entertain us hedonically &amp; eudaimonically? What's the role of awe &amp; suspense? Do they inspire conservation or travel, increasing co2 footprint? Findings from our experiments are now  published in <a href="/MassComm_Soc/">Mass Communication & Society (Taylor & Francis)</a> (open access): doi.org/10.1080/152054…
Nature Human Behaviour (@naturehumbehav) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.S. Shyam Sundar et al. find that over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017-2020 were forwarded without first being clicked on by the sharer. PSU Media Effects Research Lab (MERL) nature.com/articles/s4156…

Homero Gil de Zúñiga (@_hgz_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 New Book Alert (NOW FREE TO DOWNLOAD) 🚨 Social media promised to revitalize democracy. But has it? 🤔 'Social Media Democracy Mirage', explores how social media drives political participation but leaves us alarmingly uninformed. Read/download: cambridge.org/core/elements/… 🧵👇

Chris Skurka (@skurka_chris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICYMI, my college (Penn State Bellisario College) is hiring for two-tenure track positions! Climate communication (associate or full, apptrkr.com/5856989) Sports journalism (open rank, apptrkr.com/5867917)

Jonathan Foulds PhD (@jonathanfoulds) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To me, this is the single most important research finding on addiction in 2024. The key finding was that, "The majority of brain structure features associated with substance use initiation were evident among substance-naive children at baseline who later initiated."

Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just incredibly depressing that humans spent so long trying to invent cures to diseases, succeeded against the odds, and that progress is now being erased by a small number of people spreading misinformation.

Just incredibly depressing that humans spent so long trying to invent cures to diseases, succeeded against the odds, and that progress is now being erased by a small number of people spreading misinformation.
Jihyun Kim (@drjihyunkim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‼️ CfP: I’m editing a special issue on “AI in Communication” for The Review of Communication. We’re focusing on the diverse roles, uses, and implications of AI in communication. #hmc #AI Submission deadline: May 31, 2025. Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

American Political Science Review (@apsrjournal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

From our new issue: "Selecting Out of “Politics”: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation" by Eric Groenendyk (Eric Groenendyk), Yanna Krupnikov (Yanna Krupnikov), John Barry Ryan (John Barry Ryan), Elizabeth C. Connors (Elizabeth C. Connors, PhD). #ASPRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

From our new issue: "Selecting Out of “Politics”: The Self-Fulfilling Role of Conflict Expectation" by Eric Groenendyk (<a href="/EricGroenendyk/">Eric Groenendyk</a>), Yanna Krupnikov (<a href="/ykrupnikov/">Yanna Krupnikov</a>), John Barry Ryan (<a href="/ryanbq/">John Barry Ryan</a>), Elizabeth C. Connors (<a href="/littleconnors/">Elizabeth C. Connors, PhD</a>). #ASPRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Darby Saxbe (@darbysaxbe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom &amp; science.
Rod (Izzy) Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ 🇺🇸🦅 (@1zzyzyx1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Take thirteen minutes, or bookmark this for later. This is from Ezra Klein, taken from The Ezra Klein Show podcast. It explains precisely what this administration is doing and why it is essential to keep focus and not play into it. #DemsUnited #DemVoice1

Decoding Fox News (@decodingfoxnews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A thread 🧵about how Fox News covered the Signal chat security scandal. Day 1 - The Five. During a discussion about how Democrats were horrible Jessica Tarlov managed to talk about it. Producers dedicated 0% of the episode to the story. 1/11

Qijia Ye (@qijia_ye) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you’re an experimentalist interested in using LLMs for communication research, check out our four pre-registered studies (w/ Zening (“Ze”)Duan & Shengchun Huang ) evaluating how well LLMs perform in generating message stimuli. Preprint here: doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

Peixin Hua (@peixin_hua) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 New pub alert! Our latest article, "Unveiling America’s Silent Struggle: Help-Seeking During Material Hardship," has been published in Health Communication! 🔗 Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/104102…

Sacha Altay (@sacha_altay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Now out in NHB 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news.

🚨 Now out in NHB 🚨
 
We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news.
Ben Lyons (@ba_lyons) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now out Human Communication Research: we find evidence of overconfidence, but decomposition analyses show assoc. b/w OC & behavioral correlates are accounted for by deficits in actual discernment ability rather than lack of metacognitive insight

Now out <a href="/HCR_Journal/">Human Communication Research</a>: we find evidence of overconfidence, but decomposition analyses show assoc. b/w OC &amp; behavioral correlates are accounted for by deficits in actual discernment ability rather than lack of metacognitive insight