
Chris Skurka
@skurka_chris
Assistant professor @PSUBellisario | media effects + #SciComm + #HealthComm + emotion | he/him | 🏳️🌈 | opinions mine | chrisskurka.bsky.social
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https://www.bellisario.psu.edu/people/individual/chris-skurka 14-06-2018 04:58:18
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🚨 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!

Out now in PNAS and led by the amazing Mubashir with a great team from Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) Max Planck Institute for Human Development, our systematic meta-analysis of individual factors for misinformation susceptibility: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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.


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…


.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…


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)




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/…



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


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…


🧵New publication alert! Does media shape identity, or does identity guide media use? Our new 3-year study with Muslim American youth tests this bi-directional link Research Center for Group Dynamics Institute for Social Policy and Understanding UCSB Dept. of Comm Human Communication Research


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
