Annie Lang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Lang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Lang |
| SIGNATURE | LANG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7484-2196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
It takes guts to be a rebel
This study tests two sets of competing hypotheses about the relationship between trait reactivity to positive and negative stimuli (i.e., motivational reactivity), moral stances on social principles (i.e., social morality), and political ideology. The classic view contends that a specific political ideology or social morality results from a specific motivational reactivity pattern, whereas the dynamic coordination account suggests that trait moti…
Does visual framing drive eye gaze behavior? The effects of visual framing of athletes in an increasingly visual social media world
Previous research on the effects of visual framing of athletes has inferred that photographic visual frames drive visual behavior by demonstrating that visual frames influence picture viewers’ evaluative ratings and memory for the pictures. This study uses eye-tracking methodology to ask if these previous findings are actually the result of visual frames driving eye gaze/visual behavior. The study operationalizes the selection function of framing…
The vicious cycle of stressors, food advertising and overeating
The present study examined how negative feelings induced by anti-obesity Public Service Announcements (PSAs) influence viewers’ emotional processing of subsequent food commercials. We also investigated how this viewing experience differentially influenced viewers’ explicit and implicit attitudes toward high-calorie foods, thereby influencing their behavioral intentions towards healthy eating. In an experiment, participants first watched a series …
Can media synchronize our physiological responses? Skin conductance synchrony as a function of message valence, arousal, and emotional change rate
Guided by nonlinear dynamical systems theory, this study examined the degree to which media can synchronize individuals’ emotional arousal responses (as indicated by skin conductance) during video viewing as a function of message valence, arousal, and emotional change rate. Data from 490 paired dyads created from 45 participants were analyzed. We used cross recurrence analysis (a nonlinear dynamical analysis) to capture the dynamics of physiologi…
The measurement of positive and negative affect in media research
The influence of form and presentation attributes of media on emotion
Encoding Systems and Evolved Message Processing
This paper, based on theories of ecological perception, embodied motivated cognition, and evolutionary psychology, proposes that pictures elicit evolved biologically imperative responses more quickly and thoroughly than do words. These biologically imperative responses are directly responsible for evolved automatic reactions away from biological threats (e.g. escaping predators, avoiding disease and noxious stimuli) and towards opportunities (e.g…
Media Multitasking
In this study we analyze studies published since 1990 which tested task performance in a single and multitasking environment where at least one of the tasks was a media use task; we identify theoretical approaches, conceptual, and operational definitions of multitasking research; we critique definitions of successful multitasking; and we analyze published results in terms of task-related complexity and cognitive and perceptual system overlaps. We…
A Comparative Analysis of Dynamic and Static Indicators of Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous System Activation During TV Viewing
The goal of this paper is to examine the relative validity of a set of psychophysiological measures as psychological correlates of attention and arousal when watching moving audio/visual messages. To do this, participants watched film clips selected to vary on three media variables known to influence both attention and arousal: structural pacing (slow or fast), valence of emotion (pleasant, unpleasant), and level of arousing content (calm, arousi…
Captivated and Grossed Out
While disgust repels and offends us, it has functionally evolved over time to compel our attention-both to core disgusts (i.e., blood, guts, body products) and sociomoral violations (i.e., injustices, brutality, racism)-making it a quality of many entertainment messages that may keep audiences engrossed and engaged. An experiment exposed participants to two types of core disgusts and sociomoral disgusts in TV/film messages and collected self-repo…
Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Sexy and Humorous Content in Advertisements
Sexy and humorous content increase attention and memory for television advertising. This paper suggests that different biological mechanisms underlie their similar effects. Results show that sexy content elicits immediate appetitive activation and increased resource allocation. Humorous content elicits an incongruity/mismatch orienting response followed by an increase in appetitive activation, resulting in increased resource allocation and memory…
Appetitive and impulsive
This study examines how trait differences in the appetitive and defensive systems and how automatic, impulsive and deliberate, reflective responses to alcohol cues predict overall alcohol use. By utilizing a measure of trait motivational activation and measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward alcohol that indicate the self-control system - impulsive vs. reflective - that determines behavior, this research demonstrates that higher trait …
Dynamic Human-Centered Communication Systems Theory
This article introduces Dynamic Human-Centered Communication Systems Theory (DHCCST), defining communication as a complex dynamic system consisting of a human, a message, a medium, and a location. An argument is made that all elements of the system should be defined from a human centric viewpoint. The article reconceptualizes humans as evolved, embedded, embodied brains (EEEBs). Media are reconceptualized as brain-like creatures (BLCs). Communica…
Understanding Information Selection and Encoding from a Dynamic, Energy Saving, Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Perspective
Journal Article Understanding Information Selection and Encoding from a Dynamic, Energy Saving, Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Perspective Get access Annie Lang, Annie Lang 1Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-5501, USA, 1Corresponding author: Annie Lang; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rachel L. Bailey Rachel L. Bailey 2School of Communication, Washington State Univers…
Discipline in Waiting
Journal Article Discipline in Waiting Get access Annie Lang Annie Lang 1Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405-5501, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 23, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 334–335, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12023 Published: 15 October 2013
Discipline in Crisis? The Shifting Paradigm of Mass Communication Research
This article analyzes the Kuhnian paradigmatic status in the field of mass communication. It is suggested that the field's first paradigm, Media Effects, is in a state of crisis rather than a preparadigmatic state or a state of normal science. Finally, this article proposes a description of the current paradigm-in-crisis, suggests ways in which conceptions of the fundamental nature of what we are studying may be shifting, and proposes the element…
Media Message Processing And The Embodied Mind
This chapter critically reviews research which uses physiological and behavioral measures as covert, real‐time measures of motivated cognitive processing. It is written from the common perspective in psychophysiological research that the mind is an embodied organ and therefore is sustained by the body. As a result, things which occur in the mind can be “seen” in the body. Thinking, feeling, and being are all dependent on the continuous electrical…
Motivated message processing
Motivational Processing and Choice Behavior During Television Viewing
This study was designed to further our understanding of the central role of motivational activation in mediated information processing and media choice. To do this, a dynamic model was developed to formalize the dynamic effects of three basic motivational input variables (arousing content, positivity, and negativity) on four physiological output measures (heart rate, skin conductance level, corrugator activity, and zygomatic activity) and a behav…
MiniMAM
This paper is a part of a line of research designed to develop and validate a reliable easy-to-administer self-report indicator of individual differences in motivational activation. Previous research began the process with the development of the Motivational Activation Measure (MAM) (A. Lang, Shin, & Lee, 2005 Lang, A., Shin, M. and Lee, S. 2005. Sensation seeking, motivation, and substance use: A dual system approach. Media Psychology, 7: 1–29. …
An Initial Examination of the Post-Auricular Reflex as a Physiological Indicator of Appetitive Activation during Television Viewing
Previous research has demonstrated the post-auricular (PA) reflex to be a potentially valid measure of emotional response during mediated stimuli. However, the PA reflex has not been examined during television viewing. The goal of this study was to examine whether the PA reflex may serve as a useful indicator of emotional responding to television content. PA reflexes were measured while experimental participants viewed television advertisements v…
Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma
The Motivation Activation Measure (MAM)
(2007). The Motivation Activation Measure (MAM): How Well Does MAM Predict Individual Differences in Physiological Indicators of Appetitive and Aversive Activation? Communication Methods and Measures: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 113-136
Using the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing to Design Effective Cancer Communication Messages
This paper applies the limited capacity model of motivated mediated messages (LC4MP) to the problem of creating effective messages about cancer. A general description of the model is presented and then applied specifically to the task of creating effective cancer communication messages by asking the following questions about cancer communication: (a) What is the goal of the message? (b) Who is in the target market? (c) What medium will carry the …
Death with a Story
Death with a Story: How Story Impacts Emotional, Motivational, and Physiological Responses to First-Person Shooter Video Games Edward F. Schneider, Edward F. Schneider 1State University of New York-Potsdam 3Annie Lang, Department of Telecommunications, Institute for Communication Research, Indiana University, 1229 E. 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405–5501 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Annie Lang, Annie L…
Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma
Motivated message processing
Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization
Journal Article Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization Get access Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 1Byron Reeves (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976) is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Stanford University. Annie Lang (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications, Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Understanding Information Selection and Encoding from a Dynamic, Energy Saving, Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Perspective
Journal Article Understanding Information Selection and Encoding from a Dynamic, Energy Saving, Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Perspective Get access Annie Lang, Annie Lang 1Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-5501, USA, 1Corresponding author: Annie Lang; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rachel L. Bailey Rachel L. Bailey 2School of Communication, Washington State Univers…
Discipline in Crisis? The Shifting Paradigm of Mass Communication Research
This article analyzes the Kuhnian paradigmatic status in the field of mass communication. It is suggested that the field's first paradigm, Media Effects, is in a state of crisis rather than a preparadigmatic state or a state of normal science. Finally, this article proposes a description of the current paradigm-in-crisis, suggests ways in which conceptions of the fundamental nature of what we are studying may be shifting, and proposes the element…
Media Multitasking
In this study we analyze studies published since 1990 which tested task performance in a single and multitasking environment where at least one of the tasks was a media use task; we identify theoretical approaches, conceptual, and operational definitions of multitasking research; we critique definitions of successful multitasking; and we analyze published results in terms of task-related complexity and cognitive and perceptual system overlaps. We…
Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Sexy and Humorous Content in Advertisements
Sexy and humorous content increase attention and memory for television advertising. This paper suggests that different biological mechanisms underlie their similar effects. Results show that sexy content elicits immediate appetitive activation and increased resource allocation. Humorous content elicits an incongruity/mismatch orienting response followed by an increase in appetitive activation, resulting in increased resource allocation and memory…
The Motivation Activation Measure (MAM)
(2007). The Motivation Activation Measure (MAM): How Well Does MAM Predict Individual Differences in Physiological Indicators of Appetitive and Aversive Activation? Communication Methods and Measures: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 113-136
Appetitive and impulsive
This study examines how trait differences in the appetitive and defensive systems and how automatic, impulsive and deliberate, reflective responses to alcohol cues predict overall alcohol use. By utilizing a measure of trait motivational activation and measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward alcohol that indicate the self-control system - impulsive vs. reflective - that determines behavior, this research demonstrates that higher trait …
Dynamic Human-Centered Communication Systems Theory
This article introduces Dynamic Human-Centered Communication Systems Theory (DHCCST), defining communication as a complex dynamic system consisting of a human, a message, a medium, and a location. An argument is made that all elements of the system should be defined from a human centric viewpoint. The article reconceptualizes humans as evolved, embedded, embodied brains (EEEBs). Media are reconceptualized as brain-like creatures (BLCs). Communica…
MiniMAM
This paper is a part of a line of research designed to develop and validate a reliable easy-to-administer self-report indicator of individual differences in motivational activation. Previous research began the process with the development of the Motivational Activation Measure (MAM) (A. Lang, Shin, & Lee, 2005 Lang, A., Shin, M. and Lee, S. 2005. Sensation seeking, motivation, and substance use: A dual system approach. Media Psychology, 7: 1–29. …
Can media synchronize our physiological responses? Skin conductance synchrony as a function of message valence, arousal, and emotional change rate
Guided by nonlinear dynamical systems theory, this study examined the degree to which media can synchronize individuals’ emotional arousal responses (as indicated by skin conductance) during video viewing as a function of message valence, arousal, and emotional change rate. Data from 490 paired dyads created from 45 participants were analyzed. We used cross recurrence analysis (a nonlinear dynamical analysis) to capture the dynamics of physiologi…
A Comparative Analysis of Dynamic and Static Indicators of Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous System Activation During TV Viewing
The goal of this paper is to examine the relative validity of a set of psychophysiological measures as psychological correlates of attention and arousal when watching moving audio/visual messages. To do this, participants watched film clips selected to vary on three media variables known to influence both attention and arousal: structural pacing (slow or fast), valence of emotion (pleasant, unpleasant), and level of arousing content (calm, arousi…
Discipline in Waiting
Journal Article Discipline in Waiting Get access Annie Lang Annie Lang 1Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405-5501, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 23, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 334–335, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12023 Published: 15 October 2013
An Initial Examination of the Post-Auricular Reflex as a Physiological Indicator of Appetitive Activation during Television Viewing
Previous research has demonstrated the post-auricular (PA) reflex to be a potentially valid measure of emotional response during mediated stimuli. However, the PA reflex has not been examined during television viewing. The goal of this study was to examine whether the PA reflex may serve as a useful indicator of emotional responding to television content. PA reflexes were measured while experimental participants viewed television advertisements v…
Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization
Journal Article Emotional Television Scenes and Hemispheric Specialization Get access Byron Reeves, Byron Reeves 1Byron Reeves (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976) is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Stanford University. Annie Lang (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications, Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Defining Audio/Video Redundancy From a Limited- Capacity Information Processing Perspective
This article applies a limited-capacity information processing approach to the question of whether audio / video redundancy improves memory for television messages. Audio / video redundancy is defined as a continuum. Four different types of stimuli frequently used to operationalize redundancy are considered in terms of: (a) how much capacity they require to be fully processed; (b) how complex they are; and, (c) how much audio and video informatio…
The effects of emotional arousal and valence on television viewers’ cognitive capacity and memory
This study examines the combined effects of arousal and valence on viewers’ capacity allocation to and memory for television messages. Results show that when valence (how positive or negative a message is) is controlled, arousing messages are remembered better than calm messages. When arousal is controlled, positive messages are remembered better than negative messages. Reaction time results suggest that capacity allocation is a function of both …
Negative video as structure
This paper uses a limited capacity information processing theory of television viewing to investigate the effects of graphic negative video at four levels of processing (attention, capacity, encoding, and retrieval) and on two dimensions of emotional experience (arousal and valence). Results indicate that the presence of negative video in news stories increases attention, increases the amount of capacity required to process the message, increases…
Attention, Resource Allocation, and Communication Research
This chapter refines the conceptual and operational definitions underlying secondary task reaction times (STRTs) in an attempt to clarify exactly what STRTs measure. The intent is to make the measure more useful to researchers studying changes in attention and effort during communication activities. Perusal of the communication literature yields four frequently stated operational definitions of what STRTs measure: (a) the resources required by a …
The effects of production pacing and arousing content on the information processing of television messages
The limited capacity model of television viewing is used to investigate the impact of arousing content and fast paced production of viewers’ information processing of TV messages. Results show that both fast pace and arousing content elicit self‐reported arousal, but they elicit different patterns of physiological arousal. Both fast pace and arousing content increase the allocation of processing resources to messages. The combination of fast pace…
The Limited Capacity Model of Mediated Message Processing
This paper presents an information-processing model that is directly applicable to the investigation of how mediated messages are processed. It applies the model to the case of television viewing to demonstrate its applicability. It provides a measure for each part of the model. It presents evidence that supports the model in the television-viewing situation. Finally, it demonstrates how the model may be used to further research and understanding…
The Effects of Message Valence and Listener Arousal on Attention, Memory, and Facial Muscular Responses to Radio Advertisements
This study tested the validity of using facial electromyography (EMG) as a physiological measure of the valence of radio listeners' emotional responses to advertisements and explored the effects of message valence and listener arousal on attention and memory. A within-subjects experiment was conducted in which participants listened to ten 60-second radio advertisements that had been coded in a pretest as having either a positive or negative emoti…
Information Systems Division
The Information Systems Division of the International Communication Association is concerned with the systems that make communication work, ranging from the intrapersonal (e.g., emotional and cognitive systems) to interpersonal, organizational, and societal systems. Over the past two decades, the interests of the division have focused increasingly on systems of mental processes in communication, but underlying mechanisms explored in information s…
Death with a Story
Death with a Story: How Story Impacts Emotional, Motivational, and Physiological Responses to First-Person Shooter Video Games Edward F. Schneider, Edward F. Schneider 1State University of New York-Potsdam 3Annie Lang, Department of Telecommunications, Institute for Communication Research, Indiana University, 1229 E. 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405–5501 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Annie Lang, Annie L…
Using the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing to Design Effective Cancer Communication Messages
This paper applies the limited capacity model of motivated mediated messages (LC4MP) to the problem of creating effective messages about cancer. A general description of the model is presented and then applied specifically to the task of creating effective cancer communication messages by asking the following questions about cancer communication: (a) What is the goal of the message? (b) Who is in the target market? (c) What medium will carry the …
The Motivation Activation Measure (MAM)
(2007). The Motivation Activation Measure (MAM): How Well Does MAM Predict Individual Differences in Physiological Indicators of Appetitive and Aversive Activation? Communication Methods and Measures: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 113-136
Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma
An Initial Examination of the Post-Auricular Reflex as a Physiological Indicator of Appetitive Activation during Television Viewing
Previous research has demonstrated the post-auricular (PA) reflex to be a potentially valid measure of emotional response during mediated stimuli. However, the PA reflex has not been examined during television viewing. The goal of this study was to examine whether the PA reflex may serve as a useful indicator of emotional responding to television content. PA reflexes were measured while experimental participants viewed television advertisements v…
Motivational Processing and Choice Behavior During Television Viewing
This study was designed to further our understanding of the central role of motivational activation in mediated information processing and media choice. To do this, a dynamic model was developed to formalize the dynamic effects of three basic motivational input variables (arousing content, positivity, and negativity) on four physiological output measures (heart rate, skin conductance level, corrugator activity, and zygomatic activity) and a behav…
MiniMAM
This paper is a part of a line of research designed to develop and validate a reliable easy-to-administer self-report indicator of individual differences in motivational activation. Previous research began the process with the development of the Motivational Activation Measure (MAM) (A. Lang, Shin, & Lee, 2005 Lang, A., Shin, M. and Lee, S. 2005. Sensation seeking, motivation, and substance use: A dual system approach. Media Psychology, 7: 1–29. …
Media Message Processing And The Embodied Mind
This chapter critically reviews research which uses physiological and behavioral measures as covert, real‐time measures of motivated cognitive processing. It is written from the common perspective in psychophysiological research that the mind is an embodied organ and therefore is sustained by the body. As a result, things which occur in the mind can be “seen” in the body. Thinking, feeling, and being are all dependent on the continuous electrical…
Motivated message processing
Discipline in Waiting
Journal Article Discipline in Waiting Get access Annie Lang Annie Lang 1Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405-5501, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 23, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 334–335, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12023 Published: 15 October 2013
Discipline in Crisis? The Shifting Paradigm of Mass Communication Research
This article analyzes the Kuhnian paradigmatic status in the field of mass communication. It is suggested that the field's first paradigm, Media Effects, is in a state of crisis rather than a preparadigmatic state or a state of normal science. Finally, this article proposes a description of the current paradigm-in-crisis, suggests ways in which conceptions of the fundamental nature of what we are studying may be shifting, and proposes the element…
Captivated and Grossed Out
While disgust repels and offends us, it has functionally evolved over time to compel our attention-both to core disgusts (i.e., blood, guts, body products) and sociomoral violations (i.e., injustices, brutality, racism)-making it a quality of many entertainment messages that may keep audiences engrossed and engaged. An experiment exposed participants to two types of core disgusts and sociomoral disgusts in TV/film messages and collected self-repo…
Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Sexy and Humorous Content in Advertisements
Sexy and humorous content increase attention and memory for television advertising. This paper suggests that different biological mechanisms underlie their similar effects. Results show that sexy content elicits immediate appetitive activation and increased resource allocation. Humorous content elicits an incongruity/mismatch orienting response followed by an increase in appetitive activation, resulting in increased resource allocation and memory…
Appetitive and impulsive
This study examines how trait differences in the appetitive and defensive systems and how automatic, impulsive and deliberate, reflective responses to alcohol cues predict overall alcohol use. By utilizing a measure of trait motivational activation and measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward alcohol that indicate the self-control system - impulsive vs. reflective - that determines behavior, this research demonstrates that higher trait …
Dynamic Human-Centered Communication Systems Theory
This article introduces Dynamic Human-Centered Communication Systems Theory (DHCCST), defining communication as a complex dynamic system consisting of a human, a message, a medium, and a location. An argument is made that all elements of the system should be defined from a human centric viewpoint. The article reconceptualizes humans as evolved, embedded, embodied brains (EEEBs). Media are reconceptualized as brain-like creatures (BLCs). Communica…
Understanding Information Selection and Encoding from a Dynamic, Energy Saving, Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Perspective
Journal Article Understanding Information Selection and Encoding from a Dynamic, Energy Saving, Evolved, Embodied, Embedded Perspective Get access Annie Lang, Annie Lang 1Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-5501, USA, 1Corresponding author: Annie Lang; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rachel L. Bailey Rachel L. Bailey 2School of Communication, Washington State Univers…
Psychology (29 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Media Influence and Health (19 works) · Cognitive psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Arousal (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works)