Richard Huskey
@richardhuskey.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UC Davis. PI, Cognitive Communication Science Lab. Associate Editor, Journal of Communication. Ski bum at heart. https://cogcommscience.com/
This is going to ruin the tour www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is going to ruin the tour www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The chapter contains details about day-to-day operations. But my favorite section is the last: "Future Directions and Advice". We point to key articles that guide the lab's organization, and how we think about a life in science. In short:
Deep thinking is rarely efficient. But that’s the point.
Deep thinking is rarely efficient. But that’s the point.
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The chapter contains details about day-to-day operations. But my favorite section is the last: "Future Directions and Advice". We point to key articles that guide the lab's organization, and how we think about a life in science. In short:
Deep thinking is rarely efficient. But that’s the point.
Deep thinking is rarely efficient. But that’s the point.
🧵 What does it take to build a small, scrappy, and successful communication neuroscience lab? Our lab, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, @rachaelkee.bsky.social, Allyson Snyder, Ziyu Zhao, and I put out heads together to answer this question. Here's what we came up with: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🧵 What does it take to build a small, scrappy, and successful communication neuroscience lab? Our lab, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, @rachaelkee.bsky.social, Allyson Snyder, Ziyu Zhao, and I put out heads together to answer this question. Here's what we came up with: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Twenty years of edits later, my lasagna barely resembles my mother-in-law’s original. Philosophically speaking, am I still making _her_ lasagna?
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Twenty years of edits later, my lasagna barely resembles my mother-in-law’s original. Philosophically speaking, am I still making _her_ lasagna?
What’s it like inside your head?
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
What’s it like inside your head?
Perfect email? Or perfectest email?
September 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Perfect email? Or perfectest email?
Ask me how I know the school year started today.
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Ask me how I know the school year started today.
📱One scroll can change your day. What guides your scrolling?
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
September 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
📱One scroll can change your day. What guides your scrolling?
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
I’m keynoting at the CityU Hong Kong International Conference on AI-Empowered Communication and Global Innovation. I’ll share our lab’s NeuroAI for sequential media selection. If you’re there, say hi!
www.cityu.edu.hk/com/Page.asp...
Very excited to welcome our newest lab member, Jocelyn (Yachen) Xie! Jocelyn is broadly interested in cognition and media narratives, especially in how moral judgment and decision-making affect people’s preferences and evaluations of media content and characters cogcommscience.com/members/
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Very excited to welcome our newest lab member, Jocelyn (Yachen) Xie! Jocelyn is broadly interested in cognition and media narratives, especially in how moral judgment and decision-making affect people’s preferences and evaluations of media content and characters cogcommscience.com/members/
Headed to #ica25? So are we! The CCS Lab is sharing 3 projects—including a Top Paper—on how we choose what to watch, read & click
We use computational modeling & neuroimaging to study how curiosity, value & emotion influence media choice
Talks by @rachaelkee.bsky.social & @gongxuanjun.bsky.social
We use computational modeling & neuroimaging to study how curiosity, value & emotion influence media choice
Talks by @rachaelkee.bsky.social & @gongxuanjun.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Headed to #ica25? So are we! The CCS Lab is sharing 3 projects—including a Top Paper—on how we choose what to watch, read & click
We use computational modeling & neuroimaging to study how curiosity, value & emotion influence media choice
Talks by @rachaelkee.bsky.social & @gongxuanjun.bsky.social
We use computational modeling & neuroimaging to study how curiosity, value & emotion influence media choice
Talks by @rachaelkee.bsky.social & @gongxuanjun.bsky.social
6/ Few programs set minimum score thresholds: 16 set minimum verbal thresholds, 15 set minimum quantitative thresholds, 11 set minimum combined score thresholds.
However, average admissions thresholds were set above average scores for American Indian, Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, & Other Hispanic
However, average admissions thresholds were set above average scores for American Indian, Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, & Other Hispanic
June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
6/ Few programs set minimum score thresholds: 16 set minimum verbal thresholds, 15 set minimum quantitative thresholds, 11 set minimum combined score thresholds.
However, average admissions thresholds were set above average scores for American Indian, Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, & Other Hispanic
However, average admissions thresholds were set above average scores for American Indian, Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, & Other Hispanic
5/ Are the conditions such that filtering based on GRE score thresholds might be one explanation for admissions disparities in Communication?
To answer that question, we gathered admissions requirements for all 90 PhD in Communication programs in the U.S. Less than 50% required the GRE.
To answer that question, we gathered admissions requirements for all 90 PhD in Communication programs in the U.S. Less than 50% required the GRE.
June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
5/ Are the conditions such that filtering based on GRE score thresholds might be one explanation for admissions disparities in Communication?
To answer that question, we gathered admissions requirements for all 90 PhD in Communication programs in the U.S. Less than 50% required the GRE.
To answer that question, we gathered admissions requirements for all 90 PhD in Communication programs in the U.S. Less than 50% required the GRE.
3/ Why did we do this? A few reasons.
1. Our own department was reconsidering its GRE usage
2. Other PhD programs in Comm & other disciplines had abandoned the GRE requirement
3. We wanted to gain insight into the imbalance between Comm PhDs earned by different racial & ethnic groups in the U.S.
1. Our own department was reconsidering its GRE usage
2. Other PhD programs in Comm & other disciplines had abandoned the GRE requirement
3. We wanted to gain insight into the imbalance between Comm PhDs earned by different racial & ethnic groups in the U.S.
June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
3/ Why did we do this? A few reasons.
1. Our own department was reconsidering its GRE usage
2. Other PhD programs in Comm & other disciplines had abandoned the GRE requirement
3. We wanted to gain insight into the imbalance between Comm PhDs earned by different racial & ethnic groups in the U.S.
1. Our own department was reconsidering its GRE usage
2. Other PhD programs in Comm & other disciplines had abandoned the GRE requirement
3. We wanted to gain insight into the imbalance between Comm PhDs earned by different racial & ethnic groups in the U.S.
There’s nothing quite like watching a student become a scientist.
Over the last four years, Valerie Klein has done exactly that. Here, she presents her capstone research at the @ucdavis.bsky.social ASPIRE Symposium, showing how depression and loneliness shape people’s entertainment media preferences
Over the last four years, Valerie Klein has done exactly that. Here, she presents her capstone research at the @ucdavis.bsky.social ASPIRE Symposium, showing how depression and loneliness shape people’s entertainment media preferences
June 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There’s nothing quite like watching a student become a scientist.
Over the last four years, Valerie Klein has done exactly that. Here, she presents her capstone research at the @ucdavis.bsky.social ASPIRE Symposium, showing how depression and loneliness shape people’s entertainment media preferences
Over the last four years, Valerie Klein has done exactly that. Here, she presents her capstone research at the @ucdavis.bsky.social ASPIRE Symposium, showing how depression and loneliness shape people’s entertainment media preferences
The lab wrapped up this academic year with pasta, laughter, and lots to celebrate! Graduating seniors, new publications, a new EEG lab, and plenty of conference travel. Working with these brilliant @ucdavis.bsky.social students is easily the best part of my job cogcommscience.com/pasta-public...
May 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The lab wrapped up this academic year with pasta, laughter, and lots to celebrate! Graduating seniors, new publications, a new EEG lab, and plenty of conference travel. Working with these brilliant @ucdavis.bsky.social students is easily the best part of my job cogcommscience.com/pasta-public...
Last but not least from the lab, Ziyu Zhao shared her work investigating how emotional and rational appeals influence crowdfunding campaigns. Key takeaway? Emotional, not rational, language is associated with more effective campaigns #CommHorizons2025
May 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Last but not least from the lab, Ziyu Zhao shared her work investigating how emotional and rational appeals influence crowdfunding campaigns. Key takeaway? Emotional, not rational, language is associated with more effective campaigns #CommHorizons2025
Up next at #CommHorizons2025 @ucdavis.bsky.social, Valerie Klein shares her capstone undergraduate research project computationally modeling how mental health status influences media selection. Key finding, lonely people prefer negatively valenced entertainment media
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Up next at #CommHorizons2025 @ucdavis.bsky.social, Valerie Klein shares her capstone undergraduate research project computationally modeling how mental health status influences media selection. Key finding, lonely people prefer negatively valenced entertainment media
Day two of #CommHorizons2025 @ucdavis.bsky.social! Ziyu Zhao and @rachaelkee.bsky.social presented their drift diffusion modeling projects showing preferential evidence accumulation for negative news headlines in a nationally representative sample (Ziyu) and fMRI study (Rachael)
May 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Day two of #CommHorizons2025 @ucdavis.bsky.social! Ziyu Zhao and @rachaelkee.bsky.social presented their drift diffusion modeling projects showing preferential evidence accumulation for negative news headlines in a nationally representative sample (Ziyu) and fMRI study (Rachael)
Me: I wonder if I have any deadlines coming up?
Imaging Research Center (IRC):
Imaging Research Center (IRC):
May 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Me: I wonder if I have any deadlines coming up?
Imaging Research Center (IRC):
Imaging Research Center (IRC):
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The 2025 Comm Horizons Conference (communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...) is almost here! From May 16–18, UC Davis will host scholars from around the world to explore how media, health, and society intersect across lifespans and diverse communities @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdlands.bsky.social
The 2025 Comm Horizons Conference (communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...) is almost here! From May 16–18, UC Davis will host scholars from around the world to explore how media, health, and society intersect across lifespans and diverse communities @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdlands.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The 2025 Comm Horizons Conference (communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...) is almost here! From May 16–18, UC Davis will host scholars from around the world to explore how media, health, and society intersect across lifespans and diverse communities @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdlands.bsky.social
The 2025 Comm Horizons Conference (communication.ucdavis.edu/horizonconf2...) is almost here! From May 16–18, UC Davis will host scholars from around the world to explore how media, health, and society intersect across lifespans and diverse communities @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdlands.bsky.social
We’re at #SANS2025! Catch our Blitz Talk (Session #2) + Poster (P2-A-5) on how negative and high-arousal news shape decision-making.
Most research focuses on how the negativity bias captures our attention. We clarify what happens next!
High-res poster here: cogcommscience.com/were-at-sans...
Most research focuses on how the negativity bias captures our attention. We clarify what happens next!
High-res poster here: cogcommscience.com/were-at-sans...
April 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We’re at #SANS2025! Catch our Blitz Talk (Session #2) + Poster (P2-A-5) on how negative and high-arousal news shape decision-making.
Most research focuses on how the negativity bias captures our attention. We clarify what happens next!
High-res poster here: cogcommscience.com/were-at-sans...
Most research focuses on how the negativity bias captures our attention. We clarify what happens next!
High-res poster here: cogcommscience.com/were-at-sans...
Just picked up my copy of Emily Falk’s (@falklab.bsky.social) new book, “What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change”. Super excited to dig in! Will there be a book signing at #sans2025 next week?!?!
April 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Just picked up my copy of Emily Falk’s (@falklab.bsky.social) new book, “What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change”. Super excited to dig in! Will there be a book signing at #sans2025 next week?!?!
We also found that ISC in AF7 (but not also AF8) explained alignment in affective trust ratings. In other words, partners whose brains responded more similarly were more similar in their affective trust self-report responses. That's wild!
April 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We also found that ISC in AF7 (but not also AF8) explained alignment in affective trust ratings. In other words, partners whose brains responded more similarly were more similar in their affective trust self-report responses. That's wild!