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Overview

Annie Lang is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of psychology. Their work spans several subfields including literature and literary theory, social psychology, human-computer interaction, sociology and political science, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The research topics covered by Annie Lang focus on a range of areas such as media influence and health, behavioral health and interventions, virtual reality applications and impacts, digital games and media, opinion dynamics and social influence, mental health research topics, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their academic contributions:

  • Does visual framing drive eye gaze behavior? The effects of visual framing of athletes in an increasingly visual social media world, 2020, Media Psychology
  • Can media synchronize our physiological responses? Skin conductance synchrony as a function of message valence, arousal, and emotional change rate, 2021, Communication Monographs
  • Danger, Sex, and Everything Else, 2021, Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications
  • The vicious cycle of stressors, food advertising and overeating: how stigmatizing anti-obesity PSAs, which precede food commercials, influence subsequent implicit and explicit attitudes toward high- and low-calorie food, 2020, Media Psychology
  • The importance of being animate: Information selection as a function of dynamic human-environment interactions, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Annie Lang include:

  • Lauren Reichart Smith
  • Galen Clavio
  • Jingjing Han
  • Mary Jean Amon
  • Lucía Cores-Sarría

Their research is frequently published in academic venues such as:

  • Media Psychology
  • Communication Monographs
  • Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Politics and the Life Sciences

Best Publications

  • The limited capacity model of mediated message processing

    Annie Lang

  • Using the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing to Design Effective Cancer Communication Messages

    Annie Lang

  • Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma: A Framework Integrating Normative Influences on Stigma (FINIS)

    Bernice A. Pescosolido;Jack K. Martin;Annie Lang;Sigrun Olafsdottir

  • Negative video as structure: Emotion, attention, capacity, and memory

    Annie Lang;John Newhagen;Byron Reeves

  • The Effects of Message Valence and Listener Arousal on Attention, Memory, and Facial Muscular Responses to Radio Advertisements:

    Paul D. Bolls;Annie Lang;Robert F. Potter

  • The effects of production pacing and arousing content on the information processing of television messages

    Annie Lang;Paul Bolls;Robert F. Potter;Karlynn Kawahara

  • The Effects of Emotional Arousal and Valence on Television Viewers' Cognitive Capacity and Memory.

    Annie Lang;Kulijinder Dhillon;Qingwen Dong

  • Death with a story: How story impacts emotional, motivational, and physiological responses to first-person shooter video games

    Edward F. Schneider;Annie Lang;Mija Shin;Samuel D. Bradley

  • Involuntary Attention and Physiological Arousal Evoked by Structural Features and Emotional Content in TV Commercials

    Annie Lang

  • The Effects of Screen Size and Message Content on Attention and Arousal

    Byron Reeves;Annie Lang;Eun Young Kim;Deborah Tatar

  • Defining Audio/Video Redundancy From a Limited- Capacity Information Processing Perspective

    Annie Lang

  • The Effects of Edits on Arousal, Attention, and Memory for Television Messages: When an Edit Is an Edit Can an Edit Be Too Much?

    Annie Lang;Shuhua Zhou;Nancy Schwartz;Paul D. Bolls

  • Packaging Television News: The Effects of Tabloid on Information Processing and Evaluative Responses

    Maria Elizabeth Grabe;Shuhua Zhou;Annie Lang;Paul David Bolls

  • News Content and Form Implications for Memory and Audience Evaluations

    Maria Elizabeth Grabe;Annie Lang;Xiaoquan Zhao

  • Captured by the World Wide Web Orienting to Structural and Content Features of Computer-Presented Information

    Annie Lang;Jennifer Borse;Kevin R. Wise;Prabu David

  • Making Television Reality Unconscious Processes in the Construction of Social Reality

    Michael A. Shapiro;Annie Lang

  • The Effects of Television Videographics and Lecture Familiarity on Adult Cardiac Orienting Responses and Memory

    Esther Thorson;Annie Lang

  • Discipline in Crisis? The Shifting Paradigm of Mass Communication Research

    Annie Lang

  • Parsing the Resource Pie: Using STRTs to Measure Attention to Mediated Messages

    Annie Lang;Samuel D. Bradley;Byungho Park;Mija Shin

  • The Effects of Related and Unrelated Cuts on Television Viewers' Attention, Processing Capacity, and Memory

    Annie Lang;Seth Geiger;Melody Strickwerda;Janine Sumner

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome R. Busemeyer
Jerome R. Busemeyer Indiana University
Byron Reeves
Byron Reeves Stanford University
Thomas W. James
Thomas W. James Indiana University
Ryan A. Stevenson
Ryan A. Stevenson University of Western Ontario
David B. Pisoni
David B. Pisoni Indiana University

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