Huge congrats Jo!! 🎉

Congratulations to Annenberg's newest Ph.D. @sarahuang.bsky.social, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday!

She will be joining the faculty at UT Austin’s Moody College of Communication as an Assistant Professor.

Join us in congratulating Dr. Huang!

A great way to help reduce the citation gap is to alter your own citation practices.

We built a shiny app that makes it easy to check (and adjust) the gender balance of your references before submitting papers:

dcosme.shinyapps.io/citation-gap...

“Why is my teen addicted to video games?”
Our new study in JAMA Network Open shows that psychopathology is a key driver--not an outcome of gaming disorder!
Depression, anxiety, ADHD, and social challenges may underlie gaming disorder.
Treat the root, not just the game. 🎮🧠
#commsky #psychsci #gaming

We are looking for a Research Coordinator! Come to Penn to do research with us! my.spsp.org/Career-Cente...

Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Old and new faces at #ICA2025 in Denver!! Grateful to share my ongoing work in curiosity and health information-seeking Feeling inspired from all the cool health comm and comm sci work that’s happening :)
AND officially the digital media coordinator for @icacsab.bsky.social, give us a follow 🤳

Join us today for a joint reception at 6 pm! 😎
We will have our Top Paper session today starting at 1:30 following by our business meeting at 4:30

Excited to share a snippet of my research in these past five years in this interview. Take a look if you are curious❓:

Congratulations to Annenberg’s 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. Graduates

🎓 🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Ph.D. and M.A. graduates!! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change | PNAS Mitigating climate change requires urgent action at individual, collective, and institutional levels. However, individuals may fail to act because ...

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @pnas.org w/ @falklab.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

a dog wearing a teddy bear costume is running down a hallway with the caption " better late than never " Alt: a dog wearing a teddy bear costume is running down a hallway with the caption " better late than never "

We made it to Bluesky at last. Just in time to get ready for #ICA25

For the next month you will see me like this

Did a thing. She's a Doc now🎓

Check out Emily’s essay, “How Small Talk Opens up Deeper Connections” in The Wall Street Journal!

Sebastian Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi, Shannon Burns and Diana Tamir are also collaborators on the research behind this article.

Check it out here: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

If you want to know more about the creative and amazingly brilliant Irish expat ✨Dr. Lydon-Staley✨(or how most of us call him, David) who I immediately clicked with despite never meeting in person for a year and got me into curiosity research -> Give this a read!!

🎤 Vice Dean Emily Falk (@falklab.bsky.social) was interviewed on a recent podcast to discuss her research exploring the brain systems that influence what we choose and why we choose, our behaviors and value systems, and the power of storytelling. Listen: healthy.ucla.edu/media/livewe...

Listen to Emily Falk's feature on the UCLA LiveWell podcast!

healthy.ucla.edu/media/livewe...

Fascinating experimental paradigm by Dan,Hassin et al (2025) that starts to unpack the integrations of two sides of curiosity: Urge & Interest. High Urge and Low Interest Qs are preferred for immediate consumption, High-Interest Qs preference emerges with time
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

5/n
Lots of potential for health messages to incorporate ❓curiosity❓ as a technique in the future - if marketers/advertising can use it, health communication can use it too!

S/O to my amazing collaborators: Ben Muzekari, Melissa Mercincavage, @dlstaphilly.bsky.social @andysltan.bsky.social

4/n
Study 1 found: for different groups, different combination of ❓curiosity-eliciting techniques❓ work better

Study 2 found: targeted curiosity-eliciting messages effectively reduce nicotine false beliefs ✅
and better standard message or control ✅

3/n
In Study 1: We identified the technique/combination of curiosity-eliciting techniques

In Study 2: We tested how effective they are VS control/standard message for three priority groups: Black/African American adults who smoke, Rural adults who smoke, Young adults who smoke

2/n
We built on this finding and designed❓curiosity-eliciting❓ brief nicotine messages using 3 techniques:
*Question asking*: Do you know...?
*Social Signals*: More than 60% of U.S. populations think that...
*Rating*: Rate how curious you are to know...

Smokers’ Curiosity Facilitates Recall of Tobacco-Related Health Information Curiosity promotes learning. Two open questions concern the extent to which tobacco smokers exhibit curiosity about smoking-related health information and whether this curiosity can facilitate rec...

1/n Curiosity is an epistemic emotion that can facilitate learning smoking information for those who smoke, as we have shown in previous work:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I'm at #SRNT2025 in NOLA presenting our work using ❓curiosity-eliciting❓ nicotine messages to reduce nicotine false beliefs for priority U.S. smoking groups on
Friday 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM at Churchill Exhibition Hall
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...). Here's what we found 👇

In the midst of all the craziness, I’m actually having a grand time writing my dissertation. Can’t believe two months from now I’ll be defending it!! Drs, how long is your thank list???

Excited to get a signed copy in April!!

Can confirm that bluesky Discovery page is shockingly good 😱

Celebrating small wins that out curiosity study's one week follow-up had ~90% retention rate - now that's a wrap!

Would love to be added! Thank you