Author: Daniel Sude, PhD

At this year's School of Communication, "Comm Day," I was delighted to receive the 2020 Peer Mentor Award. Nominated and voted upon by my peers, this award recognize the informal mentoring that occurs within a department. It was nice to know that the long talks about statistical analyses, research ideas, and navigating intradepartmental relationships were … Continue reading Event: School of Communication 2020 Peer Mentor Award

On May 5th I had the pleasure of having my dissertation officially accepted by The Ohio State University's graduate school. My engaged and engaging committee was composed of Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Dr. Kelly Garrett, Dr. Jason Coronel, and Dr. Gerald Kosicki, of The Ohio State University. Its title is: More Than Partisans: Factors that Promote … Continue reading Event: Introducing Dr. Sude

Westerwick, A., Sude, D.J., Robinson, M., & Knobloch-Westerwick, S. (2020). Peers versus pros: Confirmation bias in selective exposure to user-generated versus professional media messages and its consequences. Mass Communication and Society, 23, 510-536. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15205436.2020.1721542 For a free eprint click here. If the a preprint version click westerwick, sude, robinson, & knobloch-westerwick (accepted). Abstract: Political information … Continue reading Hot off the press! Peers versus Pros: Confirmation bias in selective exposure to user-generated verus professional media messages and its consequences

For a brief summary, please see the Publications section. Garrett, R.K., Sude, D.J., & Riva, R. (2020). Toeing the party lie: Ostracism promotes endorsement of partisan falsehoods. Political Communication, 37, 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2019.1666943 For a free eprint click. For a preprint click Garrett et al - Toeing the party lie (prepress). Abstract: Research suggests that ostracism could … Continue reading Hot off the press! Toeing the Party Lie

Had the joy of giving two presentations at the 2019 International Communication Association conference in DC. Even the Tuesday session (end of conference) was pleasantly packed. First presentation focused on a finding where the gender of the author of a political opinion piece was more influential in shaping whether people selected and spent time reading … Continue reading Event: ICA 2019

Sude, D., Knobloch-Westerwick, S., Robinson, M., & Westerwick, A. (2019). “Pick and choose” opinion climate: How browsing of political messages shapes public opinion perceptions and attitudes. Communication Monographs, 4, 457-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2019.1612528 For a free eprint click. For the preprint click Sude et al. - Pick and Choose Opinion Climate (2019). High-choice media environments allow people to … Continue reading Hot off the press! “Pick and choose” opinion climate: How browsing of political messages shapes public opinion perceptions and attitudes

W/ my co-presenter, I conducted a whirlwind tour of complex regression models (serial mediation, parallel mediation, multi-level models, and multi-level mediation) to our lab. If you can imagine it, and you have meaningful quantitative data, there's a model for you! (even if you only use SPSS, there are macros - PROCESS and MLMED) for you.) … Continue reading Communicating Science: Statistical Thinking Can Organize Qualitative Analysis

Things to keep in mind when thinking about police shootings: Police show considerable race-weapon stereotyping, and race-aggression stereotyping on the social-psychologist designed "shooter task" - other people show even more (Correll and colleagues' work). http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/bernd.wittenbrink/research/pdf/cpjwsk07.pdf Everyone has to resolve ambiguity - that's when stereotypes can creep in. Is that a gun or a wallet? Is … Continue reading Communicating Science: Things to keep in mind when thinking about police shootings . . .

I recently came across this on my Facebook feed: https://psmag.com/the-death-of-the-white-working-class-has-been-greatly-exaggerated-1c568d3e6b8c It is a great example of what happens when you allow a headline to make you curious, about methodology as well as topic. Dig deep, and you may uncover misleading, questionable, or just confusing decisions made by researchers and people reporting on the research. Sometimes … Continue reading Communicating Science: Reading Science News and Empirical Articles – What Not To Do

Sooth is [now, was] a social-psychologist founded company that develops community around the art of giving and receiving good advice. Their IOS platform app brings users together for anonymous advice-asking and advice-providing. Despite anonymity, and due in part to the educational materials provided to users, advice tends to be very high quality. I encourage you … Continue reading Applying Psychological Research at Sooth – Anger and Information Processing