People
Lindsay Hahn, Founder and co-director
Lindsay Hahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo. She holds a PhD in Communication and Cognitive Science from Michigan State University. Her research investigates morally-laden media, its uses, and effects in audiences across the lifespan.
Arthur Raney, co-director
Art Raney studies psychological processes and effects associated with media selection and use. In much of his work, he investigates how and why we enjoy and appreciate entertainment content, with specific interest in the roles that morality and moral emotions play in those processes. Further, he explores how eudaimonic and self-transcendent media experiences can lead to beneficial outcomes and well-being.
Kyle Heneveld, PhD Student
Kyle is a PhD student in UB’s Department of Communication, Diversity Fellow, and Graduate Ambassador for the College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on humor, health communication, and uncertainty management.
Stephanie Lyons Gillis, PhD Student
Stephanie is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on women’s health and stigma in communication and media contexts.
Emily Lapan, PhD Student
Emily Lapan is an PhD student at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on media effects and their intersection with health and political communication. Her current work explores online discourse around Alzheimer’s and dementia, as well as extremism discourse around gender and irony on platforms such as Reddit.
Tahleen Lattimer, PhD Student
Tahleen A. Lattimer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research explores the relationship between health and media as it relates to minority populations across the lifespan. With this, her work examines how media can be harnessed to educate audiences and promote social change through community activism.
Madison Neurohr, PhD Student
Madison Neurohr, MA, is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her research examines real world implications of nonverbal behavior, including identifying terrorism and deception, and how evolution and social perception are affected by these nonverbal features. She recently won a National Science Foundation grant to pursue examining systems to better detect dangerous people.
Madeline Taggart, PhD Student
Madeline Taggart is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on the relationship between morality and mass media, across contexts such as entertainment and real world crime.
RAYMOND CHAN, MA STUDENT
Raymond Chan is an MA student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. His research focuses on sports communication and crisis communication. His career aspirations and plans are to help organizations develop the best crisis communication strategies through the lens of public relations, rapport, and organizational behavior.
Jenna Wahl, MA Student
Jenna Wahl is an MA student at the University at Buffalo. Her research interests include media effects of children’s media and its impact on normative behavior and attitudes.
MaxiMilian Malawista, BA Student
Maximilian Malawista is an English BA / Law JD student in a combined degree program with a minor in global film studies at the University at buffalo. Maximilian is passionate about pursuits inside the field of intellectual property – particularly entertainment. He wishes to be an attorney at massive entertainment companies, working as their in house-counsel.
Irina andreeva, phd student
Dan KuLESZA, PhD Student
Dan is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research interests focus on empathy and communication, emphasizing perspective-taking in the contexts of intergroup communication, morality, interpersonal communication, and media psychology.
Chen Hao, MA Student
Chen Hao is an MA student in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo. Her current research interests focus on moral development, persuasion, and narratives.