Studies on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 2020 and Later (N = 50)
LGBTQ+ (n = 2)
McAndrew, J., & Bonus, J. A. (2022). I’ve got a girl crush: Parents’ responses to stories about sexuality in children’s television. Journal of Homosexuality, 69(9), 1524–1548. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.1917222
Snyder, A. L., Bonus, J. A., & Cingel, D. P. (2023). Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media. Journal of Children & Media, 17(1), 154–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2023.2173856
Sex / Gender (n = 16)
Bonus, J. A., Lynch, T., Nathanson, A., & Watts, J. (2022). Counter-stereotypical, yet counterproductive? How families at a science museum respond to narratives that defy gender stereotypes. Media Psychology, 25(3), 469-498. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2021.1971093
Brathwaite, K. N., & DeAndrea, D. C. (2021). BoPopriation: How self-promotion and corporate commodification can undermine the body positivity (BoPo) movement on Instagram. Communication Monographs, 89(1), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2021.1925939
Cho, H., Song, C. (Chuck), & Adams, D. (2020). Efficacy and mediators of a web-based media literacy intervention for indoor tanning prevention. Journal of Health Communication, 25(2), 105–114. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2020.1712500
Cho, H., Song, C., Li, W., & Adams, D. (2022). Social processes of participatory engagement effects: A longitudinal examination with a sample of young women in the United States. Journal of Applied Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2147402
Coronel, J. C., Moore, R. C., & deBuys, B. (2021). Do gender cues from images supersede partisan cues conveyed via text? Eye movements reveal political stereotyping in multimodal information environments. Political Communication, 38(3), 281–304. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1763530
Coduto, K. D., & Eveland Jr, W. P. (2022). Listening and being listened to as affection exchange in marital discussions about the #MeToo movement. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships, 39(5), 1460–1481. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211058402
Fox, J., Vendemia, M. A., Smith, M. A., & Brehm, N. R. (2021). Effects of taking selfies on women’s self-objectification, mood, self-esteem, and social aggression toward female peers. Body Image, 36, 193–200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.11.011
Francemone, C. J., Grizzard, M., Fitzgerald, K., Huang, J., & Ahn, C. (2021). Character gender and disposition formation in narratives: The role of competing schema. Media Psychology, 25(4), 547-564. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2021.2006718
Freiberger, N., Lynch, T., Read, G. L., & Blouin, A. M. (2023). (Men)tal health: Perceptions of depression in men and women. SSM-Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100275
Gilbert, M., Lynch, T., Burridge, S., & Archipley, L. (2021). Formidability of male video game characters over 45 years. Information, Communication & Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2021.2013921
Hubner, A. Y., & Bond, R. (2022). I am a scientist . . . ask me anything: Examining differences between male and female scientists participating in a Reddit AMA session. Public Understanding of Science (Bristol, England), 31(4), 458–472. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625211048775
Lee-Won, R. J., Joo, Y. K., Baek, Y. M., Hu, D., & Park, S. G. (2020). “Obsessed with retouching your selfies? Check your mindset!”: Female Instagram users with a fixed mindset are at greater risk of disordered eating. Personality and Individual Differences, 167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110223
Stafford, L., Kline, S. L., & Hu, X. (2022). Emerging adults’ preferred surnames: Reasons and social cognitive dispositions. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships, 39(3), 796–820. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211046391
Tompkins, J. E., Lynch, T., Van Driel, I. I., & Fritz, N. (2020). Kawaii killers and femme fatales: A textual analysis of female characters signifying benevolent and hostile sexism in video games. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 64(2), 236–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2020.1718960
Vendemia, M. A., Brathwaite, K. N., & DeAndrea, D. C. (2022). An intersectional approach to evaluating the effectiveness of women’s sexualized body-positive imagery on Instagram. New Media & Society, 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221143345
Vendemia, M. A., DeAndrea, D. C., & Brathwaite, K. N. (2021). Objectifying the body positive movement: The effects of sexualizing and digitally modifying body-positive images on Instagram. Body Image, 38, 137–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.03.017
Race / Ethnicity (n = 28)
Appiah, O., Eveland Jr., W., Bullock, O., & Coduto, K. (2022). Why we can’t talk openly about race: The impact of race and partisanship on respondents’ perceptions of intergroup conversations. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(2), 434–452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220967978
Appiah, O., Eveland, W. P., & Henry, C. M. (2023). Partisanship supersedes race: effects of discussant race and partisanship on Whites’ willingness to engage in race-specific conversations. Human Communication Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqad055
Cao, W., & Cho, H. (2021). Culture in cancer survivorship interventions for Asian Americans: A systematic review and critical analyses. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 12(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000225.supp (Supplemental)
Cho, H., Li, W., Cannon, J., Lopez, R., & Song, C. (Chuck). (2021). Testing three explanations for stigmatization of people of Asian descent during COVID-19: maladaptive coping, biased media use, or racial prejudice? Ethnicity & Health, 26(1), 94–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2020.1830035
Ellithorpe, M. E., Ewoldsen, D. R., Yao, X. (Shay), & Holt, L. F. (2023). I help you, you help me: Interracial reciprocity in situation comedies influences racial attitudes. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2023.2266680
Ellithorpe, M. E., Holt, L. F., & Ewoldsen, D. R. (2022). Would they save me, too? Victim race recall when the hero is black vs White and its influence on expectations of reciprocity. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2078842
Eveland, W. P., & Appiah, O. (2021). A national conversation about race? Political discussion across lines of racial and partisan difference. Journal of Race, Ethnicity & Politics, 6(1), 187–213. https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2019.36
Eveland, W. P., Coduto, K. D., Appiah, O., & Bullock, O. M. (2020). Listening during political conversations: Traits and situations. Political Communication, 37(5), 656–677. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1736701
Eveland, W. P., Jr., Henry, C. M., & Appiah, O. (2023). The implications of listening during political conversations for democracy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101595
Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Nathanson, A. I. (2020). Contexts for family talk about racism: Historical, dyadic, and geographic. Journal of Family Communication, 20(4), 267–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2020.1790563
Hawkins, I., Saleem, M., Gibson, B., & Bushman, B. J. (2021). Extensions of the proteus effect on intergroup aggression in the real world. Psychology of Popular Media, 10(4), 478–487. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000307.supp (Supplemental)
Holt, L. F., & Carnahan, D. (2020). Which bad news to choose? The influence of race and social identity on story selections within negative news contexts. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 97(3), 644–662. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019892632
Holt, L. F., Ellithorpe, M. E., Ewoldsen, D. R., & Velez, J. (2022). Helping and hurting on the TV screen: Bounded generalized reciprocity and interracial group expectations. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2026228
Holt, L. F., Kjærvik, S. L., & Bushman, B. J. (2022). Harming and Shaming through Naming: Examining Why Calling the Coronavirus the “COVID-19 Virus,” Not the “Chinese Virus,” Matters. Media Psychology, 25(5), 639–652. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2034021
Holt, L. F., & Sweitzer, M. D. (2020). More than a Black and White issue: Ethnic identity, social dominance orientation, and support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Self & Identity, 19(1), 16–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2018.1524788
Hovick, S. R., Rhodes, N., Bigsby, E., Thomas, S., & Freiberger, N. (2022). Exploring direct and indirect predictors of heart disease information seeking. Journal of Communication in Healthcare. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2022.2076549
Karandikar, S., Munshi, A., & Cho, H. (2024). “Say something in your language”: Lived experiences of Asian Americans during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Asian Social Work & Policy Review, objectifyibg(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/aswp.12293
Kline, S. L., White, T. N., & Martins, R. J. (2022). Argumentation and Incivility in Online Forums: The Case of Discussing Colorism. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(4), 462–475. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X211066889
Lee-Won, R. J., Lee, J. Y., White, T. N., & Lee, J. (2021). The not-so-obvious harm of cyberhate: Source magnification of hate tweets, unhealthy food choice, and the moderating role of group identification. Asian Communication Research, 18(3), 151-167. https://doi.org/10.20879/acr.2021.18.3.151
Lee-Won, R. J., White, T. N., Song, H., Lee, J. Y., & Smith, M. R. (2020). Source magnification of cyberhate: Affective and cognitive effects of multiple-source hate messages on target group members. Media Psychology, 23(5), 603–624. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1612760
Manohar, U., & Kline, S. L. (2023). The role of social support in disarming the effects of racial microaggressions. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502231151740
Marino, M. I., Bilge, N., Gutsche, R. E., Jr., & Holt, L. (2020). Who is credible (and where)? Using virtual reality to examine credibility and bias of perceived race/ethnicity in urban/suburban environments. Howard Journal of Communications, 31(3), 297–315. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2020.1714514
Nevarez, L., Hovick, S. R., Enard, K. R., Lloyd, S. M., & Kahlor, L. A. (2020). Race/Ethnic Variations in Predictors of Health Consciousness Within the Cancer Prevention Context. American Journal of Health Promotion, 34(7), 740–746.
Padamsee, T. J., Bond, R. M., Dixon, G. N., Hovick, S. R., Na, K., Nisbet, E. C., Wegener, D. T., & Garrett, R. K. (2022). Changes in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Black and White individuals in the US. JAMA Network Open, 5(1), e2144470. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.44470
Ross, F. J. (2020). Black Press Scholarship: Where We Have Been, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go. American Journalism, 37(3), 301–320.
Ross, F. J., & Kline, S. L. (2021). Contextualizing the black church: Analysis of newspaper coverage in the Obama–Wright controversy. Journalism, 22(7), 1594–1611. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919856759
Stein, M. D., Krause, C., Rogers, E., Silwal, A., Helme, D., Slater, M., Beard, D., Lewis, N., Luster, J., Stephens, K., & Lefebvre, C. (2023). Lessons learned from developing tailored community communication campaigns in the healing communities study. Journal of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2023.2262948
Tong, S. T., & DeAndrea, D. C. (2023). The Effects of Observer Expectations on Judgments of Anti-Asian Hate Tweets and Online Activism Response. Social Media + Society, 9(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231157299
Culture / Religion (n = 6)
Eveland, W. P., Jr., & Shen, F. (2021). Cross-national variation in political network size, distribution, and prediction. Social Networks, 66, 100–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.01.003
Lueke, N. A., Lueke, A. K., Aghababaei, N., Ferguson, M. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2021). Fundamentalism and intrinsic religiosity as factors in well-being and social connectedness: An Iranian study. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000429.supp (Supplemental)
Nixon, D. E., Ferketich, A. K., Slater, M. D., Mays, D., & Keller-Hamilton, B. (2022). Prospective associations between attitudes toward alcohol advertisements and alcohol use behaviors among adolescent boys. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 15, 100428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100428
Partain, L. P. B. (2021). Speaking emissaries: Lebanese women’s rights NGO KAFA and its media use for audience mobilization. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 28(2), 253–276. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1715350
Partain, L. P. B. (2020). Best of both worlds or refusal to comply? The rich kids of Tehran on Instagram. Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, 13(3), 216–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1611905
Partain, L.P.B. & Weaver, A. (2022). Unveiling our biases: Activating religious, emotional, and contextual cues in news media representations of Syrian refugees. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2410-2430.
Age (n = 3)
Dorrance Hall, E., Meng, J., & Reynolds, R. M. (2020). Confidant network and interpersonal communication associations with depression in older adulthood. Health Communication, 35(7), 872–881. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1598616
Kline, S. L., Jones, E. B., Price, K. A., & Hu, X. (2024). Older adult representations, stereotypes, and interpersonal competence in Christmas television. Mass Communication & Society, 27(1), 125–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2182222
Reynolds, R. M., Meng, J., & Dorrance Hall, E. (2020). Multilayered social dynamics and depression among older adults: A 10-year cross-lagged analysis. Psychology and Aging, 35(7), 948–962. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000569
Other (n = 7)
Brathwaite, K. N., DeAndrea, D. C., & Vendemia, M. A. (2023). Non-Sexualized Images and Body-Neutral Messaging Foster Body Positivity Online. Social Media + Society, 9(4), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207852
Cheng, Y., & Meng, J. (2021). The association between depression and problematic smartphone behaviors through smartphone use in a clinical sample. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.258
DeAndrea, D. C., & Bullock, O. M. (2022). How communicating about discrimination influences attributions of blame and condemnation. Human Communication Research, 48(1), 31–56. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqab016
Fox, J., Pearce, K. E., Massanari, A. L., Riles, J. M., Szulc, Ł., Ranjit, Y. S., Trevisan, F., Soriano, C. R. R., Vitak, J., Arora, P., Ahn, S. J. (Grace), Alper, M., Gambino, A., Gonzalez, C., Lynch, T., Williamson, L. D., & Gonzales, A. L. (2021). Open science, closed doors? Countering marginalization through an agenda for ethical, inclusive research in communication. Journal of Communication, 71(5), 764–784. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab029
Li, W., & Cho, H. (2023). The knowledge gap on social media: Examining roles of engagement and networks. New Media & Society, 25(5), 1023–1042. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211009488
Read, G. L., Yan, H. Y., Anderson, P. B., Partain, L. P. B., Vaughn, Z., Semivolos, A., Kim, Y., & Gonzales, A. L. (2022). Making stability dependable: stable cellphone access leads to better health outcomes for those experiencing poverty. Information, Communication & Society, 25(14), 2122–2139. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1928263
Schmierbach, M., McCombs, M., Valenzuela, S., Dearing, J. W., Guo, L., Iyengar, S., Kiousis, S., Kosicki, G. M., Meraz, S., Scheufele, D. A., Stoycheff, E., Vargo, C., Weaver, D. H., & Willnat, L. (2022). Reflections on a legacy: Thoughts from scholars about agenda-setting past and future. Mass Communication & Society, 25(4), 500–527. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2022.2067725