Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
Assistant Professor, Natural Resources Science Communication
website | ginger.orton25@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Cognition, Communication, Environment and Ecosystems, Experimental Methods, Media, Risk Behaviors, Social Psychology, Survey Methods
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
website | hoda@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Communication, Experimental Methods, Media, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, STEM, Survey Methods
Assistant Professor, College of Environment + Design
website | qiong.wang@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Communication; Computational Methods; Environment and Ecosystems; Geographic Information Systems; Physical Health and Well-being; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; STEM; Survey Methods
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | kayau.lai@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Culture
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
website | angieyeon.im@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Communication, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Emotion, Identity, Organizations, Personality, Social Psychology, Work and Occupations
Research Professional, SPIA
website | camila.livio@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Communication, Computational Methods, Culture, Emotion, International Relations
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | joshua.novak@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology; Assessment and Evaluation; Chronic Disease; Communication; Culture; Emotion; Exercise; Food & Nutrition; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations; Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships; Mental Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Obesity; Physical Health and Well-being; Prevention and Implementation Science; Psychophysiology; Sexuality and Sexual Identity; Social Psychology; Substance Use and Addiction
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Gerontology
website | renato.azevedo@uga.edu
Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Emotion, Exercise, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Social Psychology, STEM, Survey Methods
Associate Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, & Consumer Economics
website | yilang.peng@uga.edu
Research Interests: Social media; media effects; AI; computational social science; computer vision
Assistant Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2026-2028
website | mengqi.liao@uga.edu
Research Interests: Communication, Experimental Methods, Media
