2025

Jang, Y., Shaw, J., Wackowski, O., & Noar, S. M. (2025). The effects of e-cigarettes warnings: A meta-analysis. JAMA Internal Medicine. https://10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.1380

Jang, Y., Brewer, N. T., O’Shea, N. G., Hall, M. G., & Noar, S. M. (2025). Do perceived message effectiveness ratings change in response to repeated message exposures? Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2466115

Turner, M. M., Jang, Y., Heo, R., Ye, Q., Barry, R., Lapinski, M., & Peng, T., (2025). Mask wearing as a prosocial behavior: Proposing and testing the moral norms activation model. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322921

Wade, R.B., Turner, M.M., Hamdy, R., Jang, Y., Heo, R.J, Liu, C.M. (2025). Who says what to whom through what channel? Formative communication research on antibiotic resistance messaging for urgent care patients. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2024.429

2024

Noar. S. M., Jang. Y., Zarndt, A. N., Zhao, X., Ross, J. C., & Cappella, J. N. (2024). Achieving public health impact: Health communication research to inform tobacco regulatory science. Health Communication, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2326250

Yoon, H., Jang, Y., Lapinski, M. K., Turner, M. M., Peng, T., & Lee, S. (2024). The role of collective group orientation and social norms on physical distancing behaviors for disease prevention. Health Communication, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2303826 

Ye, Q., Turner, M. M., & Jang, Y. (2024). Examining the psychological mechanisms underlying nostalgia appeals: A comparative experiment of nostalgia and regret. Health Communication, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2355441

Lee, S., Choung, H., Peng, T. Q., Lapinski, M. K., Jang, Y., & Turner, M. M. (2024). Believe it or not: A network analysis investigating how individuals embrace false and true statements during COVID-19. Communication Monographs, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2024.2354252

Turner, M. M., Lim, J. I., Jang, Y., Heo, R. J., Ye, Q., Kim, M., Lapinski, M., & Peng, T.  (2024). Do COVID-19 related primary emotions affect risk perceptions, efficacy beliefs, and information seeking and behavior? Examining emotions as audience segments. Frontiers in Communication, 9, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1378557

Turner, M. M., Wade, R., Heo, R., Ye, Q., & Jang, Y. (2024). Development and validation of the commitment to social activism scale using the Thurstone scaling procedure. Communication Research Report, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2024.2374413

2023

Turner, M. M., Jang, Y., Barry, R., Heo, R. J., Ye, Q., Hembroff, L. A., & Lim, J. (2023). The effects of moral norms and anticipated guilt on COVID-19 prevention behaviors. Current Psychology, 43, 16767-16779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04477-5

2022

Chung, M., Jang, Y., Lapinski, M. K., Kerr, J. M., Zhao, J., Shupp, R. S., & Peng, T. Q. (2022). I do, therefore I think it is normal: The causal effects of behavior on descriptive norm formation and evolution. Social Influence, 17(1), 17-35. http://doi.org/10.1080/15534510.2022.2052955

2021 

Smith, S. W., De Jong, W., Turner, M. M., Park, S., Jang, Y., Poole, A., Martell, D., & Salerno, J. (2021). Determining whether public communications campaigns based on the social norms approach are a viable covid-19 prevention strategy for college campuses. Journal of Health Communication, 26(11), 792–798. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2021.2009597  

Lee, S., Peng, T. Q., Lapinski, M., Turner, M. M., Jang, Y., & Schaaf, A. (2021). Too stringent or lenient: Antecedents and consequences of perceived stringency of COVID-19 policies in the United States. Health Policy Open, 2, 100047. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100047

Jang, Y., Turner, M. M., Heo, R., & Barry, R. (2021). A new approach to audience segmentation for vaccination messaging: Applying the anger activism model. Journal of Social Marketing, 11(4), 424-452. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-10-2020-0206

2020

Rheu, M., Jang, Y., & Peng, W. (2020). Enhancing health behaviors through virtual self: A systematic review of health interventions using avatars. Game for Health Journal, 9(2), 85-94. http://doi.org/10.1089/g4h.2018.0134  

2018

Kim, Y., & Jang, Y. (2018). “Chemyon,” the Korean face: Finalizing the scale and validity check with self-construal. Korean Journal, 58(3), 102-127. http://doi.org/10.25024/kj.2018.58.3.102  

2016

Jang, Y., & Kim, Y. (2016). The influences of cues to action, fear, and trust in government on risk perception and behavior intention: Focus on Japanese fishery products intakes after the Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster. The Korean Journal of Advertising, 27(8), 7-32. (Published in Korean). http://dx.doi.org/10.14377/KJA.2016.11.30.7

Kim, Y., Lee, H., Jang, Y., & Lee, H. (2016). A cluster analysis on the risk of particulate matter: Focusing on differences of risk perceptions and risk-related behaviors based on public segmentation. Journal of Public Relations, 20(3), 201-235. (Published in Korean). http://doi.org/10.15814/jpr.2016.20.3.201 

Kim, Y., Lee, H., Lee, H., & Jang, Y. (2016). A study on differences between experts and lay people about risk perceptions toward particulate matter: A focus on the utilization of mental models. Korean Journal of Communication Studies, 12(1), 53-117. (Published in Korean) 

2015

Kim, Y., & Jang, Y. (2015). Developing a scale for the ‘Boiling Pot Syndrome’. Korean Journal of Communication Studies, 11(4), 164-198. (Published in Korean) 

Kim, Y., Lee, H., Lee, H., & Jang, Y. (2015). A study of the public’s perception and opinion formation on particulate matter risk: Focusing on the moderating effects of the perception toward promotional news and involvement. Journal of Communication & Information, 72, 52-90. (Published in Korean)

Kim, Y., & Jang, Y. (2015). An analysis of influencing factors on smoking as a risk-taking behavior: With a focus on sensation seeking, social smoking conformity, and perceived benefit/barriers. Journal of Public Relations, 19(2), 22-50. (Published in Korean). http://doi.org/10.15814/jpr.2015.19.2.22

Kim, Y., Lee, H., Jang, Y., & Lee, H. (2015). How does media construct particulate matter risks? A news frame and source analysis on particulate matter risks. Korean Journal of Journalism & Communication Studies, 59(2), 121-154. (Published in Korean)

2014

Kim, Y., Sung, HJ, & Jang, Y. (2014). Crisis communications and the influence of “Chemyon” among Koreans. Journal of Public Relations, 18(3), 155-184. (Published in Korean)

Turner, M. M. Jang, Y., & Turner, S. (2021). Information-processing and cognitive theories. In T. Thompson & P. J. Shultz (Eds.), Health communication theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.