Joseph Bayer, assistant professor in the School of Communication, received the Mattox Award for research for 2020. The Sarah Evans Mattox Faculty Research endowment provides support on a competitive basis for a faculty member’s research. Specifically this award is given to a highly productive, innovative faculty member who conducts research on “the impact of media on public opinion and/or society,” and is based on articles that have been published during 2020.

Bayer has been published in journals such as Social Psychology Quarterly, Annual Review of Psychology and Nature Human Behaviour.