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Directors

Lindsay Hahn, Co-Director

Lindsay Hahn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo. She holds a PhD in Communication and Cognitive Science from Michigan State University. Her research investigates morally-laden media, its uses, and effects in audiences across the lifespan.

Arthur Raney, Co-Director

Art Raney studies psychological processes and effects associated with media selection and use. In much of his work, he investigates how and why we enjoy and appreciate entertainment content, with specific interest in the roles that morality and moral emotions play in those processes. Further, he explores how eudaimonic and self-transcendent media experiences can lead to beneficial outcomes and well-being.

Affiliates & Collaborators

Tahleen Lattimer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Tahleen A. Lattimer is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Disability Health & Wellness at Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her research explores the relationship between health and media as it relates to minority populations across the lifespan. With this, her work examines how media can be harnessed to educate audiences and promote social change through community activism.

Graduate Researchers

Irina Andreeva, PhD Student

Irina is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her main research focus is on leveraging narrative effects toward positive psychological outcomes. Her work also explores entertainment media processing, audience responses, and novel entertainment media genre

Chen Hao, Incoming PhD Student

Chen Hao is a current MA student and incoming doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her current research interests focus on moral development, persuasion, and narratives

Kyle Heneveld, PhD Student

Kyle is a PhD student in UB’s Department of Communication, Diversity Fellow, and Graduate Ambassador for the College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on humor, health communication, and uncertainty management.

Stephanie Lyons Gillis, PhD Student

Stephanie is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on women’s health and stigma in communication and media contexts.

Dan Kulesza, PhD Student

Dan is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research interests focus on empathy and communication, emphasizing perspective-taking in the contexts of morality, interpersonal communication, and media psychology.

Emily Lapan, PhD Student

Emily Lapan is an PhD student at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on media effects and their intersection with health and political communication. Her current work explores online discourse around Alzheimer’s and dementia, as well as extremism discourse around gender and irony on platforms such as Reddit.

Madison Neurohr, PhD Student

Madison Neurohr, MA, is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her research examines real world implications of nonverbal behavior, including identifying terrorism and deception, and how evolution and social perception are affected by these nonverbal features. She recently won a National Science Foundation grant to pursue examining systems to better detect dangerous people.

Madeline Taggart, PhD Student

Madeline Taggart is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on the relationship between morality and mass media, across contexts such as entertainment, news, and real-world crime. She explores how entertainment both shapes and reflects the moral frameworks through which we understand and engage with the world around us, ranging from villainous characters to extremists' media habits.

Jenna Wahl, Incoming PhD Student

Jenna Wahl is a current MA student and incoming doctoral student at the University at Buffalo. Her research interests include media effects of children’s media and its impact on normative behavior and attitudes.

Xiaotong Yu, PhD Student

Xiaotong Yu is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her research interests are media effects, morality in entertaining media, especially in video games. She is also interested in how technology has changed individuals’ perception of others and the self in virtual environments.

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