Fair. Thanks for reading.

Agreed.

Yes, the theme was a thing when I reviewed last year, and I gave every submission the same on it in protest. It's silly that it's a mandatory review criteria for research--makes 0 sense.

Home | Communication Science Futures Communication Science Futures is a conference aimed at addressing pressing issues and opportunities in the interdisciplinary, social...

Hey y'all! Very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting Communication Science Futures again in East Lansing later this year. The conference in 2024 was a blast, and we're looking forward to running it back!

Keynote speaker: James Pennebaker
Submission deadline: June 5th.

→ commscifutures.com

Proud of this project!

... that manipulating character depth when first introducing a character influences character liking across an entire narrative, even after the character commits a series of strongly moral or immoral actions. It also replicates our past work comprehensively testing ADT (Grizzard et al. 2023). (2/2)

Excited to share our latest work in Acta Psychologica (with @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse) on the influence of character depth on affective disposition processes (ADT) across five unfolding acts of a story (pre-registered). Results show... (1/2)

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So glad you came!!

Very excited about this project introducing an integrative character-based network framework predicting success of novels and films. Idea and analysis credit to @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, with big thanks for including me, @fhopp.bsky.social @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Anna Wolfe. More info here:

ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - ChatGPT does not replicate human moral judgments: the importance of examining metrics beyond correlation to assess agreement

Out now in Scientific Reports! Despite high correlations, ChatGPT models failed to replicate human moral judgments. We propose tests beyond correlation to compare LLM data and human data.

With @mattgrizz.bsky.social @andyluttrell.bsky.social @chasmonge.bsky.social

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

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OSU Comm is hiring an Assoc. or Full Prof. We are seeking someone to provide leadership for our undergrad journ program. The research focus includes journ, public opinion, audience analytics, science comm, or media economics, or other related topics.

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Episode 108! @mattgrizz.bsky.social helps us appreciate the importance of characters in entertainment...using science!

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Super cool work!

OSU School of Communication alumni (and especially our grad alumni), we're hosting a reunion on Sept. 12, 2025, where we'll be opening and dedicating the new Lantern Newsroom. Mark your calendars! @beccafraz.bsky.social @morganellithorpe.bsky.social @wattsupdoc.bsky.social @austinhubner.bsky.social

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Happy to share that our conceptualization and scale validation for character depth is now published in Media Psychology (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

Much thanks to co-authors @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse.

PDF at tinyurl.com/4etux967.

Gainesville with a winter storm watch? 😯

Best lab now has the best notebooks!

..not makes much sense. I get that in-person ICA attendance is down and the org wants to encourage attendance, but this email feels like undue pressuring of new scholars who may not be able to attend and are not familiar with conference norms. @icahdq.bsky.social could this be clarified?

...as part of your paper acceptance. The idea that the "exchange of knowledge, research, and collaboration our conference provides is impossible" without my 1st year master's student paying hundreds (thousands?) of dollars out of their own pocket to attend ICA does... 2/3

For all the new-to-ICA co-authors (not first/presenting authors) of accepted ICA papers who received this email that implies your required attendance, rest assured that--unless something dramatic has changed--the attendance of non-presenting co-authors is NOT required... 1/3

..not making a lot of sense. I get that in-person ICA attendance is down and the org wants to encourage attendance, but this email feels like inappropriate pressuring of new scholars who may not be able to attend and are not familiar with ICA norms.
@icahdq.bsky.social
could this be corrected? 3/3

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"Let's submit that paper. It's ready to go. Should only take a second to upload it in the Editorial Manager."

Add me, please! Thanks!

What Our Media Choices Say About Us | Now at Ohio State In this episode of Now at Ohio State, two experts break down why we choose the shows we choose, why we like the characters we like and what those choices mean.

Why do we choose the media we choose? Check out The Ohio State University colleagues mattgrizz.bsky.social and Sara Grady and the latest podcast, online at www.osu.edu/impact/now-a....

...We also map out how research can test the mechanisms underlying SMD across the full spectrum of potential moral influence. Formalizing these ideas into specified, testable theory has been a several-year process for us--we're thrilled it's finally out in the world! [2/2]

Reconceptualizing selective moral disengagement mechanisms as continuums of moral influence: a theoretical expansion Abstract. Mass communication researchers have applied Bandura’s selective moral disengagement (SMD) concept in diverse contexts to explain audiences’ accep

Very excited to see
@mattgrizz.bsky.social
and my reconceptualization of Bandura's selective moral disengagement (SMD) now published at Comm Theory! shorturl.at/cvU23 We integrate SMD w/ social intuitionist theories and propose a two-stage moral signal detection process... [1/2]

...We also map out how research can test the mechanisms underlying SMD across the full spectrum of potential moral influence. Formalizing these ideas into specified, testable theory has been a several-year process for us--we're thrilled it's finally out in the world! [2/2]

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