Publications

 

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

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Sun, Y., & Pan, Z. (online first). Not published is not perished: Addressing publication bias in meta-analytic studies in communication. Human Communication Research (Special issue on meta-analysis).

 

Ratcliff, C. L.*, & Sun, Y.* (online first). Overcoming resistance through narrative communication: Findings from a meta-analytic review. Human Communication Research.

*Authors contributed equally to this work

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Sun, Y., Lee, T., & Qian, S. (2019). Beyond personal responsibility: Examining the effects of narrative engagement on communicative and civic actions. Journal of Health Communication, 24, 603-614. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2019.1643954

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Sun, Y. (2019). How conversational ties are formed in an online community: A social network analysis of a tweet chat group. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1581242

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Yeo, S. K., Sun, Y., McKasy, M., & Shugart, E. (2019). Disgusting microbes: The effect of disgust on perceptions of risks related to modifying microbiomes. Public Understanding of Science.

 

Sun, Y., Yeo, S. K., McKasy, M., & Shugart, E. (2019). Disgust, need for affect, and responses to microbiome research. Mass Communication & Society, 22 (4), 508-534, DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2019.1565786

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Liu, M., Yang, Y, & Sun, Y. (2018). Exploring health information sharing behavior among Chinese older adults: A social support perspective. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1536950

 

Shen, L., Sun, Y., & Pan, Z. (2018). Not all perceptual gaps were created equal: Explicating the third-person perception (TPP) as a cognitive fallacy. Mass Communication and Society, 21(4), 399-424, 

DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2017.1420194

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Sun, Y., DeLuca, K., & Seegert, N. (2017). Exploring environmentalism amidst the clamour of networks: A social network analysis of Utah environmental organizations. Environmental Communication, 11(3), 332-352, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1094101. 

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Jensen, J. D., Liu, M., Carcioppolo, N., John, K. K., Krakow, M., & Sun, Y. (2017). Health information seeking and scanning among U.S. adults 50 - 75: Testing a key postulate of the information overload model. Health Informatics Journal, 23(2), 96–108. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458215627290

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Sun, Y., Liu, M., & Krakow, M. (2016). Health e-mavens: Identifying active online health information users. Health Expectations, 19(5), 1071-1083. DOI: 10.1111/hex.12398

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DeLuca, K, Brunner, E., & Sun, Y. (2016). Weibo, WeChat, and the transformative events of environmental activism in China. International Journal of Communication, 10, 321-339.

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Sun, Y., Krakow, M., John, K., Liu, M., Weaver, J. (2016). Framing obesity: How news frames shape attributions and behavioral responses. Journal of Health Communication, 21(2), 139-147. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1039676  

 

Yale, R. N., Jensen, J. D., Carcioppolo, N., Sun, Y., & Liu, M. (2015). Examining first- and second-order factor structures for news credibility. Communication Methods and Measures, 9(3), 152-169. DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2015.1061652. 

 

King, A. J., Jensen, J. D., Carcioppolo, N., Krakow, M. M. & Sun, Y. (2015). Comparing theories of media learning: Cognitive mediation, information utility, and knowledge acquisition from cancer news. Mass Communication & Society, 18(6), 753-775. DOI:10.1080/15205436.2015.1027406.

 

Sun, Y., Jensen, J. D., Guntzviller, L. M., & Liu, M. (2014). Perceived message influence and Hispanic women: The disappearance of self-other perceptual bias. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 36(3), 366-382. 

 

Sun, Y. (2014). Rethinking public health: Promoting public engagement through a new discursive environment. American Journal of Public Health, 104(1), e6-e13.

 

DeLuca, K., Lawson, S., Sun, Y. (2012). Occupy Wall Street on the public screens of social Media: The many framings of the birth of a social movement. Communication, Culture & Critique, 5(4). 

 

Shen, L., Pan, Z., & Sun, Y. (2010). A test of motivational vs. cognitive explanations for third-person perception. American Journal of Media Psychology, 3, 32-53.  

 

Mares, L., & Sun, Y. (2010). The multiple meanings of age for television content preferences. Human Communication Research, 36, 372-396. 

 

Carter, E. W., Ditchman, N., Sun, Y., Trainor, A. A., Swedeen, B., & Owens, L. (2010). Summer employment and community experiences of transition-age youth with severe disabilities. Exceptional Children, 39(2), 1-19. 

 

Carter, E. W., Trainor, A.., Owens, L. & Sun, Y., (2010). Self-determination prospects of youth with high-incidence disabilities: Divergent perspectives and related factors. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 18(2), 67-81.

 

Carter, E. W., Trainor, A., Sun, Y., & Owens, L. (2009). Assessing the transition-related strengths and needs of adolescents with high-incidence disabilities. Exceptional Children, 76(1), 74-94. 

 

Carter, E. W., Owens, L., Trainor, A., Sun, Y, & Swedeen, B. (2009). Self-determination skills and opportunities of adolescents with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 114(3), 179-192. 

 

Sun, Y., Pan, Z., & Shen, L. (2008). Understanding the third-person perception: Evidence from a meta-analysis. Journal of Communication, 58, 280-300. 

 

Dillard, J. P., & Sun, Y. (2008). Questions about structure, referent, and bias in judgments of the effectiveness of persuasive messages. Journal of Health Communication, 13(2), 149-168. 

 

Sun, Y., Shen, L., & Pan, Z. (2008). On the behavioral component of the third-person effect. Communication Research, 35, 257-278. 

 

Hwang, H., Pan, Z. & Sun, Y. (2008). Influence of hostile media perception on willingness to engage in discursive activities: An examination of mediating role of media indignation. Media Psychology, 11(1), 76-97. 

 

Pan, Z., Shen, L. Paek, H., & Sun, Y. (2006). Mobilizing political talk in a presidential campaign: An examination of campaign effects in a deliberative framework. Communication Research, 33(5), 1-31. 

 

Pan, Z., Abisaid, J., Paek, H., Sun, Y., & Houden, D. (2006). Exploring the perceptual gap in perceived effects of media reports of opinion polls. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 18(3), 340-350. 

 

Paek, H. J., Pan, Z., Sun, Y., Abisaid, J. & Houden, D. (2005).  The third-person perception as social judgment: An exploration of social distance and uncertainty reduction in perceived effects of political attack ads. Communication Research, 32, 143-170.

 

Book Chapters and Encyclopedic Entries

 

Sun, Y. (2017). “Coding of data.” In M. Allen (Ed). The SAGE encyclopedia of communication research methods. 

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Sun, Y. (2017). “Fixed coding.” In M. Allen (Ed). The SAGE encyclopedia of communication research methods. 

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Sun, Y. (2017). “Flexible coding.” In M. Allen (Ed). The SAGE encyclopedia of communication research methods. 

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Sun, Y. (2013). When presumed influence turns real: An indirect route of media influence. In J. P. Dillard & L. Shen (Eds). The Sage handbook of persuasion: Developments of theory and practice. Sage Publications. 

 

DeLuca, K., Sun, Y., & Peeples, J. (2011) Wild Public Screens and Image Events from Seattle to China: Using Social Media to Broadcast Activism Beyond the Confines of Democracy. In S. Cottle & L. Lester (Eds). Transnational protests and the media. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.