Six participate in SPR conference
Two teams of three from The Media School participated for the 55th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research conference Sept. 30 through Oct. 4 in Seattle.
Distinguished Professor Annie Lang, associate professor Rob Potter and graduate students Anthony Almond, Jingjing Han, Glenna Read and Irene van Driel attended.
The group created two poster sessions based on research studies conducted in the school’s Institute for Communication Research, where Potter is director.
Read, van Driel and Potter led the session, “Advertisements Featuring Same-Sex Couples Affect Attentional, But Not Emotional, Responding.” It focused on research that proves that psychophysiological methods better reveal a person’s attitudes toward stigmatized groups than self-report.
Han, Almond and Lang worked together on, “Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions of Mediated Message Processing,” which discussed human interactions with messages and argued that small changes in those interactions lead to big differences in future decisions and behaviors.