Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | jessica.flannery@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Assistant Professor, College of Environment + Design
website | jbian@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Environment and Ecosystems, Geographic Information Systems, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Social Psychology
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
Assistant Professor, Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI)
website | rachel.figard@uga.edu
Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Education and Learning, Gender, Higher Education, Identity, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, STEM
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
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | glenna.read@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Video surveillance; Video interpretation bias; Media effects; Social representation; Message processing; Decision-making
Professor and Department Head, Journalism
website | ivanka@uga.edu
Research Interests include media effects, international and cross cultural communication, and virtual reality journalism
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | nevens4@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, vaccine hesitancy, and consumers interaction with/and processing messaging
Professor, Journalism
website | bartw@uga.edu
Research Interests include design, visual attention, news, advertising, and effects of images on persuasion
