A new paper that looks at science misperceptions and partisan bias, titled “The Partisan Brain: How Dissonant Science Messages Lead Conservatives and Liberals to (Dis)trust science” has been been awarded the third place faculty paper award by the ComSHER division of AEJMC. We will be presenting the paper in August.
Author Archives: R. Kelly Garrett
New Paper at HCR
A paper resulting from cross-national collaboration with faculty in Israel is now available at Human Communication Research.
Garrett, R. K., Gvirsman, S. D., Johnson, B. K., Tsfati, Y., Neo, R., & Dal, A. (2014). Implications of Pro- and Counterattitudinal Information Exposure for Affective Polarization. Human Communication Research, n/a-n/a. doi: 10.1111/hcre.12028
Congratulations to Brian Weeks
Congratulations to my advisee, Brian Weeks, who successfully defended his dissertation this month. Now he’s off to the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna in Austria.
Nice coverage on misperception research
My research team has been getting some good news media coverage on our work looking at misperceptions and corrections. Check it out over on the Misperceptions project website.
OSoC and TESoC
I’m delighted to announce that the School of Communication has funded my proposals for two new shared research resources. The first is called TESoC, an online research pool for the School of Communication, modeled on TESS. Each semester graduate students and faculty may apply for up to 400 participants for their online experiments. The second is called OSoC, and it will provide access to an annual omnibus survey with a large representative sample of Americans. As with TESoC, applications are competitive, but the program will run for at least five years and our hope is that most of those interested in participating will have an opportunity to do so.
New paper at JoC
A new collaborative paper on fact checking has been published at the Journal of Communication.
Garrett, R. K., Nisbet, E. C., & Lynch, E. K. (2013). Undermining the corrective effects of media-based political fact checking? The role of contextual cues and naïve theory. Journal of Communication. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12038
Real-time corrections paper accepted at CSCW
A paper I coauthored with my advisee, Brian Weeks, has been accepted at CSCW.
Garrett, R. K., & Weeks, B. E. (2013, February 23–27). The Promise and Peril of Real-Time Corrections to Political Misperceptions. Paper to be presented at CSCW ’13, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Update: More information is available on the Misperceptions Project website.
Misperceptions research website and Twitterfeed now live
For more information about my misperceptions research, please see the new project website (http://wp.comm.ohio-state.edu/misperceptions/ ) and the accompanying Twitterfeed (@FalseBeliefNews ).
Collaboration with Stroud receives paper award
A paper that I coauthored with Talia Stroud has received a top-four paper award from the political communication division of the National Communication Association. Talia and I will be presenting the work in November. Garrett, R. K., & Stroud, N. J. (2012). Decoupling selective approach and selective avoidance. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, Orlando, FL.
NSF CAREER award
I have been awarded an NSF CAREER award, providing five years of funding to examine the consequences of online news and social media on political misperceptions. I’m joined in my efforts by a great team of graduate students, including Dustin Carnahand, Ben Johnson, Emily Lynch, Rebecca Riley, and Brian Weeks. More information about the project can be found here.