Media Effects
Our daily lives are inundated with media encouraging or discouraging us from all kinds of behaviors. From anti-smoking ads to public health campaigns, Annenberg researchers consider how different types of messaging resonate with various populations and develop best practices for crafting the most effective media for influencing individuals’ behaviors.
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Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D.
Alexandra Heyman Nash University Professor
Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D.
Gerald R. Miller Professor Emeritus of Communication
Danielle Cosme, Ph.D.
Research Director, Communication Neuroscience Lab
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.
Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication & Democracy
Bita Fayaz-Farkhad, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Social Action Lab
Jessica Fishman, Ph.D.
Faculty Research Associate
Deen Freelon, Ph.D.
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Professor of Communication
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Communication
Olivia González, Ph.D.
George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D.
Wilbur Schramm Professor Emeritus of Communication and Health Policy
Zehra Husain, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication
Patrick E. Jamieson, Ph.D.
Director, Annenberg Health & Risk Communication Institute
John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D.
Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry
Ed Keller
Visiting Scholar
Jinha Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
Yue Li, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sixiao (Vivian) Liu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Communication & Equity Lab
David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Siva Mathiyazhagan, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Associate Director, SAFELab
Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D.
Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication
Wazhmah Osman, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk and Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication
Christina A. Roberto, Ph.D.
Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Dan Romer, Ph.D.
Research Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Andrew A. Strasser, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
Andy Tan, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.B.B.S.
Associate Professor of Communication
Hendrik Theine, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC)
Kim Woolf, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Academic Advisor, and Research Director, Undergraduate Studies
Jiaxi Wu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Communication & Equity Lab
Dannagal G. Young, Ph.D.
Visiting Sabbatical Scholar, Annenberg Public Policy Center
