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Jeff Hancock
Dr. Jeffrey T. Hancock is interested in social interactions mediated by information and communication technology, with an emphasis on how people produce and understand language in these contexts. His research has focused on two types of language, verbal irony and deception, and on a number of cognitive and social psychological factors affected by online communication.
Natalie Bazarova
Dr. Natalie Bazarova's research lies at the intersection of social cognition, technology, and communication. She explores connections between cognitive processes and social behaviors in interpersonal and small group contexts. Some of her research interests include attributional judgments, shared cognition, stereotypes, group decision-making, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Doctoral Canidates
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Jamie Guillory
Jamie's research focuses on how new forms of technology affect perceptions and behavior. In particular, Jamie studies the way that deception and perceptions of trustworthiness and competence are affected by the structure of social networking websites.
Jamie graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in May 2007 with Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Pubic Relations. She plans to complete her Doctorate in May 2012.
Jamie is currently the primary graduate student research assistant on several faculty projects. The first with Professor Jeffrey Hancock and Professor Jeremy Birnholtz explores deceptive behaviors related to communication in CMC settings. The second with Professor Sahara Byrne focuses on the ways that differing brand logos affect the perceptions of credibility and effectiveness in smoking cessation and statin advertisements.
Crystal Jiang
https://sites.google.com/site/crystallijiang/Crystal is originally from Guangxi, China. She got her B.A. degree in Advertising from Peking University and M.Phil degree in Communication Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research focuses on psychological and relational processes in computer-mediated communication contexts. She is primarily interested in exploring how socio-emotional information is composed, exchanged and understood in cyberspace. Areas of interest include examinations of online self-disclosure, online self-presentation, online persuasion, and the impact of these processes on shaping interpersonal relationships.
Next to research Crystal likes to travel, go to the movies, go out with friends, play board games, and cook her favorite dishes.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Stephanie Friedman
Stephanie Friedman is a sophomore majoring in Communication. She is interested in the effects that computer-mediated communication has on impression formation and interpersonal relationships.
Kate Pascucci
Kate Pascucci is a junior majoring in Communication with a concentration in business and dance. She is interested in the communicative patterns of interaction and the psychological motives that drive them.
Thaisa Tirado
Thaisa Tirado is a senior majoring in Communication with a focus in media studies. She is interested in understanding the use of deception in mediated technology and the effects it has on human beings.
Angela Falisi
Angela Falisi is a junior majoring in Biology and Society with a concentration in Human Sociobiology and Behavior. Since the fall of her freshman year she has worked with Amy Gonzales, studying self awareness and race perceptions in Facebook and Second Life.
Ariella Weintraub
Ariella is entering her Junior year as a Communication Major focusing in Information Technologies. This past semester she has been working on Butler Lies in the context of Blackberries. Specifically, whether features unique to Blackberries affect butler lies, as well as relationship closeness among Blackberry users. Inspired by her recent month long trip to Montevideo, Uruguay, she is planning on taking an international survey of Butler Lies and study how they are similar or different between nations. Ariella can be reached at abw75@cornell.edu
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Back To TopJorge Pena
http://commstudies.utexas.edu/faculty/jorge-pena.htmlJorge Pena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Zuoming Wang
http://www.comm.unt.edu/wangz.htmZuoming Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Texas.
Amy Gonzales
http://www.amygonzales.org/BiograpAmy's research focuses on the relationship between computer-mediated communication, human-computer-interaction and psychological dynamics. She explores how people perceive others across time and space using communication technology and the implications those perceptions have for psychological well-being and identity. She is working towards theoretical development that describes individual processes as they are influenced by communication technology (e.g. hyper-identity shift model). She is also interested in the development of new methodologies (e.g. automated linguistic analysis, self-report scales) to facilitate understanding in this rapidly developing area of research.
Amy is originally from Delano, CA. She received a BA in psychology from UC San Diego, in La Jolla. She received a MA in Communication from Cornell in 2006 and a MA in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Amy will finish her degree in summer 2010 and will begin a position as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania next fall. For more information about Amy's research, please contact her at alg49 at cornell.edu.
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Catalina Toma
Catalina's research focuses on how communication technologies impact interpersonal communication processes, such as impression management, impression formation, deception and trust. She is also interested in how the online environment affects users' self-esteem and emotional well-being.
Catalina obtained a Master's degree in Communication from Cornell University and a dual Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication and English from the University of Bridgeport.