Communication and Social Cognition Division
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Interest Group Awards
2025
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA’s large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Sovannie Len & Kyungin Kim, “Who Matters in Asian American Movies? A Content Analysis of Subgroup Representation and Intergroup Dynamics” |
| 2021 | Jessica Gasiorek (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) and R. Kelly Aune (University of Hawai’i at Manoa),”Creating understanding: How communicating aligns minds.” |
| 2021 | Jacob Fisher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kristy Hamilton (University of California, Santa Barbara),”Integrating Media Selection and Media Effects Using Decision Theory” |
| 2021 | Xuanjun Gong (University of California, Davis), Richard Huskey (University of California, Davis), Allison Eden (Michigan State University), and Ezgi Ulusoy (Michigan State University),”• Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preference for valence and arousal” |
| 2020 | Ezgi Ulusoy, Sara Grady, Kevin J. Kryston, Judith Rosenbaum, Benjamin K. Johnson, Allison L. Eden, “Challenge Accepted! The Role of Content Challenge and Self-Control in Spoiler Selection and Anticipated Enjoyment” |
| 2020 | Jessica Gall Myrick and Christofer Skurka, “Does repeated exposure to threatening news stories fan the flames or desensitize audiences? Testing competing hypotheses in the context of climate change communication” |
| 2020 | Ralf Schmaelzle, Sara Grady, Joshua Baldwin, Henry Goble, Neha Sethi, Junyi Han, “How shared brain activity varies over the course of a narrative in regions associated with social cognition and story comprehension” |
| 2020 | Xun Zhu and Rachel Smith, “Standing Out While Fitting In: Examining Linguistic Choices by Innovators” |
| 2018 | Hillary C. Shulman and Olivia M. Bullock, “Pairing a Gain-Loss Frame with a Metrocognitive Frame to Explain Health and Risk Perceptions and the Cognitive Processes Associated with Framing Effects” |
| 2018 | Brian L. Quick, Salah Al-Ghaithi, Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, Andrea Martinez Gonzalez, and Kaitlyn Nead, “Reactance Proneness and Driving Rights among Mature Adults: A Test of a Reactance-Induced Behavioral Outcome” |
| 2018 | Jen Hoewe, Elliot Panek, Cynthia Peacock, Lindsey Sherrill, and Shannon Wheeler, “Using moral foundation to asses stereotype formation: Americans’ perceptions of immigrants and refugees” |
| 2016 | Jialing Huang, Haoran Chu, Changhyun Ahn, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, and Matthew Grizzard, “Graphic violence speaks louder: More evidence that viewing atrocities increases moral salience” |
| 2016 | Matthew S. McGlone and Elizabeth M. Glowacki, “Hate the sin, love the saints: Activities vs. actors in message design” |
| 2016 | Nicholas A. Palomares, Adam Richards, Teresa Gil-Lopez, and Cassandra Alexopoulos, “The representations of goals and their dimensionality in conversation” |
| 2015 | Marko Dragojevic and Howard Giles, “I dont like you because you’re hard to understand: The role of processing fluency in the language attitudes process” |
| 2015 | Timothy R. Levine, “What’s up with deception cues? A close look at some bizarre paradoxical findings from meta-analysis and primary experiements” |
| 2015 | Nicholas A. Palomares, Katherine Grasso, and Siyue Li, “Are secondary goals goals? Differentiating goals and constraints” |
| 2014 | Steven A. McCornack, Kelly Morrison, Xun Zhu, Amy W. Wisner, Jihyun Esther Paik, and Joshua C. Nelson, “Predicting When People Will Lie: Information Manipulation Theory 2 and the McCornack Falsification Probability Curve” |
| 2014 | Susanne M. Jones, Wesley D. Hansen, and Samuel D. Hughes, “How the Genie Got in the Bottle: Initial Results for an Appraisal-Based Model of Mindful Supportive Communication” |
| 2014 | Cynthia K. Lindley, Erina L. MacGeorge, Helen Lillie, and Rebekah G. Pastor, “Gender Differences in the Evaluation of Advice: Dual Process or Instrumental Motivation?” |
| 2013 | Graham Bodie, Susanne Jones, Andrea Vickery, Laura Hatcher, and Kaitlin Cannava, “Assessing Source Constellations for Evaluations of Enacted Support” |
| 2013 | Allison Shaw, Mark Zorzie, Christopher Carpenter, and Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, “The Development and Testing of the Model of Verbal Aggression and Message Processing and Production” |
| 2013 | Amber Westcott-Baker and Rene Weber “Dynamic Attitudes in Response to Multi-Argument Health Messages” |
| 2012 | Timothy Levine, J. Peter Blair, and David D. Clare, “Diagnostic Utility: Experimental Demonstrations and Replications of Powerful Question Effects and Smaller Question by Experience Interactions in High Stake Deception Detection” |
| 2012 | Graham Bodie, James M. Honeycutt, and Andrea J. Vickery, “An Analysis of the Correspondence between Imagined Interaction Attributes and Functions” |
| 2012 | Torsten Reimer, Markus Raab, and Benjamin Russel, “The Message-Primacy Hypothesis: Effects of Argument Quality on the Evaluation of Proponents” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Rebecca Baumler, “Using gender-inclusive restrooms promotes positive attitudes toward trans and non-binary people: Explanations from gender salience and intergroup contact” |
| 2021 | Samuel Wilson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),”Error or influence? A critical review of bias in communication and social cognition.” |
| 2016 | Matthew Pittman and Brandon Reich, “Social media and loneliness: Why an Instagram picture may be worth more than a thousand twitter words” |
| 2013 | Jessica Gasiorek, “Through Your Eyes, Things Look Better: Perspective-Taking, Attributions, and Perceived Accommodation” |
| 2012 | Jennifer Hoewe, Brett Sherrick, and Alyssa Appelman, “Stereotype Priming through News Story Headlines: Use of the Word Terrorist to Prompt Implicit Associations with Muslims” |
Outstanding Article of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | David Keating, “Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theory” |
| 2024 | Dr. Kaitlin Fitzgerald, Dr. Elaine Paravati, Dr. Melanie Green, Dr. Melissa Moore, and Jeffrey L. Qian, Restorative Narratives for Health Promotion |
| 2021 | Hillary Shulman (The Ohio State University) and Olivia Bullock (The Ohio State University Using metacognitive cues to amplify message content: a new direction in strategic communication |
| 2016 | Sungeun Chung and Shin-ll Moon (2016) Is the third-person effect real? A critical examination of rationales, testing methods, and previous findings of the third-person effect on censorship attitudes. Human Communication Research. |
| 2015 | Lijiang Shen and James Price Dillard (2014) Threat, Fear, and Persuasion: Review and Critique of Questions About Functional Form. Review of Communication Research, 2, 94-114. |
| 2014 | Sungeun Chung and Edward Fink |
| 2012 | Qi Wang, Edward L. Fink, and Deborah A. Cai |