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Edelman Panel: How and When Organizations Should Address Mis/Disinformation: Understanding a Multifaceted Threat.

Yan Jin (Invited Panelist). “Edelman Panel: How and When Organizations Should Address Mis/Disinformation: Understanding a Multifaceted Threat.” Public Relations Division, AEJMC Annual Conference, August 8, 2025, San Francisco, CA. Description: The […]

Red Alert in Authority-led Public Health Crisis Communication Efforts: The Role of Pre-existing Source Trust on the Impact of Misinformation and Corrective Appeals on Publics’ Identity Threat, Reactance, and Emotional Responses

Xuerong Lu (Ph.D. alum), Wenqing Zhao (Ph.D. candidate), Yan Jin, W. Timothy Coombs, andSantosh Vijaykumar. “Red Alert in Authority-led Public Health Crisis Communication Efforts: The Role of Pre-existing Source Trust on the […]

Punish or Forgive? Exploring the Mediating Role of CEO Attitudes on the Interaction of Emotional Crisis Communication and Crisis Type

James Ndone, Qi Zheng, Rongting Niu (Ph.D. student), Yan Jin and Margaret Duffy. “Punish or Forgive? Exploring the Mediating Role of CEO Attitudes on the Interaction of Emotional Crisis Communication and […]

How Moral Appraisals Operate in Sticky Crises: Exploring the Distinction between Moral Outrage and Empathic Anger within the Triadic Appraisal Framework of Situational Crisis Communication Theory

Rongting Niu (Ph.D. Student) and Nicholas Eng. “How Moral Appraisals Operate in Sticky Crises: Exploring the Distinction between Moral Outrage and Empathic Anger within the Triadic Appraisal Framework of Situational […]