Our review, drawing from various fields such as communication, psychology, marketing, and
environmental studies, delves into the potential for humor in pro-environmental messaging …

Prior research acknowledges the potential implications of how media users evaluate media
texts as being relevant to politics. Yet there are limitations to existing operationalizations of …

Connecting approaches from mass communication and entertainment research with the
study of political satire exposure effects, the experiment (N= 265) considers the differential …

Popular narratives can have a significant cultural and persuasive impact. Audience
identification with a protagonist and liking of the protagonist are two important types of …

This article explores the persuasive power and limitations of humor in narrating foreign
policy issues to publics. I focus on audience reception of humor produced by state and state …

A meta-analysis evaluated the persuasive effects of political satire and how such effects may
differ between Horatian (light-hearted) and Juvenalian (acerbic) satire types. A synthesis of …

Television has the potential to be a vector for mainstream audiences to learn about climate
change and feel motivated to act. Comedic framings of climate change, while well-studied in …

Purpose Advertisements facilitate certain emotions, subsequently influencing purchase
intentions. Humor, as an influential way of information expression, is frequently used in ads …

Despite the greater attention brought to systemically racist policing practices through protest
movements in recent years, police in the United States continue to target racial minorities …

This dissertation explored the role of visual imagery in water conservation initiatives,
focusing on its impact on public understanding, emotional connection, and willingness to …