June 12, 2019
Morgan Ellithorpe, assistant professor of advertising and public relations, partnered with Allison Eden, assistant professor of communication, to conduct research on the effects of binge watching. The two presented their findings at the 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.
In the age of fake news, concerns about misinformation seem to have reached a pinnacle in U.S. society. A new research study to be published in Human Communication Research reports the results from two experiments that test whether beliefs based in “fake news” can be affected.
Bad decision-making is a trait often associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use social media? New research at Michigan State University shows a connection between social media use and impaired risky decision-making.
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