Website: http://u.osu.edu/grizzard.6 

Matthew Grizzard (PhD, Michigan State University) is a Scarlet and Gray Associate Professor in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. His research lies at the intersection of media psychology and mass communication, focusing on how people make moral judgments when engaging with popular media, particularly narratives. He investigates how audiences morally evaluate characters; how these judgments are relative and shaped by narrative context; and how such processes help explain real-world phenomena such as polarization and Schadenfreude. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Media Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of Human Communication Research, Media Psychology, Psychology of Popular Media, and Communication Research Reports. He has previously served in leadership roles within the Communication and Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association.