Ye Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ye Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ye |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7674-9056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How do configurations of social capital shape rural resilience? Group-level differentiation and process mechanisms in a Chinese tourism village following the Covid-19 pandemic
Mainstream social capital theory generally posits that actors with greater stocks of bridging and linking social capital have greater advantages in adapting to and transforming in response to external shocks. However, the resilience trajectories observed in Guzhu Village, China, following the COVID-19 pandemic present a theoretical paradox. Agritainment operators, whose networks were rooted primarily in local acquaintance ties, undertook extensiv…
Quality and reliability of semaglutide content on different Chinese short video platforms: A study focusing on side effects
Objective This study aims to evaluate the quality, reliability, and content characteristics of semaglutide-related short videos on three major Chinese short-video platforms (Bilibili, TikTok, and Rednote), with a focus on exploring differences in the presentation of side effects across different platforms and uploader types. Rather than examining specific clinical indications or dosing regimens, this study focuses on how semaglutide-related infor…
Integrated network pharmacology and Chinmedomics reveal the molecular mechanisms of aqueous extract of Eleutherococcus senticosus fruit for treating essential hypertension
Scoparone enhances the stability of TAT protein by inhibiting the Ubiquitin-Proteasome pathway, regulates mitochondrial damage against chronic alcoholic liver disease
Integrated lipidomics and Chinmedomics reveal the multi-target mechanism of Phellodendri Amurensis Cortex in prostate cancer via lipid metabolism remodeling
Investigation of peptides absorbed into blood of Colla Corii asini (E'jiao) based on cisplatin-induced anemia rat model and prediction of hematopoietic active peptide
Toward a More Powerful Experimental Communication Science: An Assessment of Two Decades’ Research (2001–2023)
Low statistical power undermines a credible scientific discipline. This paper presents a statistical power assessment of experimental communication research based on a random sample of 416 studies published in five central communication journals over the last two decades (2001–2023). Our analyses showed that there was a lack of attention to power and power analysis, with the majority of studies not even mentioning statistical power. We also demon…
Can improving sleeping hours enhance the depression and anxiety of young males with chronic musculoskeletal pain
Related risk factors are important for targeted intervention and treatment of CMP. Sleep intervention is conducive to depression and anxiety recovery in individuals with CMP. Based on the results of this study, further measures can be taken to mitigate the negative consequences of CMP on public mental health
Barriers to physical activity among adolescents with asthma and obesity: A qualitative study of multiple stakeholders
Barriers operate at intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and community or technology levels. Co-designed and individualized activity plans and coordinated communication among families, schools, and healthcare may enhance participation. Existing digital tools require health-sensitive personalization and safety features to support adolescents with asthma and obesity
Dictamnus dasycarpus turcz. Attenuates collagen-induced rheumatoid arthritis in DBA/1J mice through inhibiting IL-17 signaling pathway
Exploring the spatial patterns of rural multifunctionality in China's metropolitan hinterland and its driving forces: The case of Shanghai-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou region
Chinese Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Positive Identity Measure (C-LGB-PIM)
To support research and interventions using a positive, strength-based framework of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) identities in China, this study translates the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Positive Identity Measure (LGB-PIM) into Standard Chinese and evaluating its reliability and validity among Chinese sexual minorities. Following Brislin's standardized translation procedures (translation, back-translation, cultural adaptation, and pretesting)…
Understanding Blame in the Context of Childhood Obesity
This paper explicates blame as a psychological construct in communication processes, with a focus on its underlying structure and its mediating role between message characteristics and the public’s issue engagement. Data were collected from Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 373) via a Web-based experiment, where we manipulated a news story about a child suffering an obesity-related health risk (asthma attack vs. heart attack) with different levels of p…
Effects of Viscum coloratum (Kom.) Nakai on collagen-induced rheumatoid arthritis
Taking communication science and research methodology seriously
Analysis of spatial form and structure of commercial pedestrian blocks based on Isovist and big data
Commercial pedestrian blocks play an indispensable role in urban life. With the development of urban commercial intensification, the construction of commercial pedestrian blocks has ushered in a period of rapid development. To explore the spatial form and structural features of commercial pedestrian blocks, we examined the Qingniwa-Tianjin Street commercial pedestrian block in Dalian, China. We developed a new quantitative research method, using …
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research
In a series of essays, scholars respond to Perloff and Shen’s article, “The Third-Person Effect 40 Years After Davison Penned It.” They offer further thoughts on how to measure the phenomenon, where future research is headed, and even whether the effect is real
Mobilizing the Public in Saving the Bonneville Salt Flats: Understanding Blame as a Psychological Construct
This study seeks to explicate blame as a psychological construct. Situated in the environmental problem of the decline of the Bonneville Salt Flats (BSF), the study examines the structure of blame and how it may mediate message effect on the public’s issue engagement to save the BSF. With data collected from a Web-based experiment on a college student sample, blame was shown to be best modeled as a latent construct consisting of both the cognitiv…
Optimization of Walk Score Based on Street Greening—A Case Study of Zhongshan Road in Qingdao
Enhancing the walkability of urban streets is an effective means to improve public health, alleviate traffic congestion, and enhance the living environment. In China, the government has actively encouraged green travel and promoted improvements in the walk system. The walkability of the built environment is affected by many factors. In addition to the configuration of daily life facilities, street greening can have significant effects on walkabil…
How conversational ties are formed in an online community: A social network analysis of a tweet chat group
This paper examines the generative processes underlying the conversational network structure of a tweet chat community (#dsma, ‘Diabetes Social Media Advocacy’). Taking a relational perspective to the study of mediated communication, this paper uses social network analysis and treats conversational ties as the unit of analysis. It explores the formation of such ties in a multitheoretical, multilevel framework via exponential random graph modeling…
Overcoming Resistance Through Narratives: Findings from a Meta-Analytic Review
To understand the mechanisms underlying narrative persuasion, a growing body of theoretical and empirical work suggests that narratives reduce audience resistance, possibly via narrative engagement. To synthesize this research, we performed a two-part meta-analysis using three-level random-effects models. Part I focused on experimental studies that directly compared narratives and non-narratives on resistance. Based on 15 effect sizes from nine e…
Vocabulary in high-school EFL textbooks: Texts and learner knowledge
Not Published Is Not Perished: Addressing Publication Bias in Meta-Analytic Studies in Communication
Publication bias has been recognized as a threat to the validity of meta-analytic findings and scientific knowledge in general. Given the recent rise in meta-analytic research in communication, how well publication bias concerns are addressed by communication meta-analysts merits attention. In this essay, after a brief overview of publication bias and some major methods of assessment, we provide a systematic review of meta-analyses published in s…
Disgusting microbes: The effect of disgust on perceptions of risks related to modifying microbiomes
Research on perceived risks of scientific issues has largely overlooked the influence of disgust as a predictor. Here, we examine the impact of disgust on perceived risks of modifying microbiomes using a 2 (emotion) × 2 (focus) experiment embedded in an online survey. We find evidence of moderated mediation where individuals exposed to an article about microbiome research and therapies with explicit references to disgusting stimuli perceived grea…
Disgust, Need for Affect, and Responses to Microbiome Research
Contributing to the literature on affective processing and attitude formation, this study investigates the effects of a discrete emotion (disgust) and an emotional disposition (need for affect [NFA]) on support for regulation in the context of microbiome research. Data from a web-based experiment (N = 1,005) showed that experienced disgust mediated the effect of disgust-eliciting information on support for regulation. This mediated relationship w…
Examining First- and Second-Order Factor Structures for News Credibility
The construct of news credibility has been of interest to communication scholars for decades, yet researchers have struggled to develop a measure of news credibility that demonstrates a reliable factor structure and construct validity. This study uses confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and discriminant analysis to evaluate Abdulla and colleagues’ (2004) measure of news credibility. Results indicate that although the factor structure of the measur…
The Multiple Meanings of Age for Television Content Preferences
Two studies examined how adult age and time of measurement influence media preferences. Study 1 (using TV ratings data from 1970s to 1980s) found that the popularity of genres varied over time, but even after controlling for year, age groups differed in (a) genre choices (consistent with socioemotional selectivity theory) and (b) age of characters viewed (consistent with age identity theory). The average age of characters in each program partiall…
Spatial-temporal response patterns of tourist flow under impulse pre-trip information search: From online to arrival
Not All Perceptual Gaps Were Created Equal: Explicating the Third-Person Perception (TPP) as a Cognitive Fallacy
Explicating the third-person perception (TPP) as a cognitive fallacy in the process of comparative social judgment of media effects, we propose that not all self–other perceptual gaps in media effects should be considered as TPP. When there is reasonably valid and accurate information regarding self vis-à-vis others on media consumption and vulnerability to media influence, the associated self–other gaps in media effects are not exaggerations, he…
Vocabulary in high-school EFL textbooks: Texts and learner knowledge
Not Published Is Not Perished: Addressing Publication Bias in Meta-Analytic Studies in Communication
Publication bias has been recognized as a threat to the validity of meta-analytic findings and scientific knowledge in general. Given the recent rise in meta-analytic research in communication, how well publication bias concerns are addressed by communication meta-analysts merits attention. In this essay, after a brief overview of publication bias and some major methods of assessment, we provide a systematic review of meta-analyses published in s…
Exploring the spatial patterns of rural multifunctionality in China's metropolitan hinterland and its driving forces: The case of Shanghai-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou region
Comparing Theories of Media Learning: Cognitive Mediation, Information Utility, and Knowledge Acquisition from Cancer News
Determining what factors predict media learning is an important avenue of research for the field of mass communication. The present study provides a comparative investigation of two models of media learning: the cognitive mediation model and the information utility model. Participants (N = 1,076) read a news article related to scientific discoveries relevant to cancer prevention and responded to all constructs of the two models. Recognition and c…
Rethinking Public Health: Promoting Public Engagement Through a New Discursive Environment
I reexamine the notion of public health after reviewing critiques of the prevalent individualistic conception of health. I argue that public health should mean not only the health of the public but also health in the public and by the public, and I expound on the social contingency of health and highlight the importance of the interpersonal dimensions of health conditions and health promotion efforts. Promoting public health requires activating h…
Another Point of View: Scholarly Responses to the State of Third-Person Research
In a series of essays, scholars respond to Perloff and Shen’s article, “The Third-Person Effect 40 Years After Davison Penned It.” They offer further thoughts on how to measure the phenomenon, where future research is headed, and even whether the effect is real
Disgust, Need for Affect, and Responses to Microbiome Research
Contributing to the literature on affective processing and attitude formation, this study investigates the effects of a discrete emotion (disgust) and an emotional disposition (need for affect [NFA]) on support for regulation in the context of microbiome research. Data from a web-based experiment (N = 1,005) showed that experienced disgust mediated the effect of disgust-eliciting information on support for regulation. This mediated relationship w…
On the Behavioral Component of the Third-Person Effect
This article examines the behavioral hypothesis of the third-person effect. It argues that self-other disparities in perceived message effects lead to specific rectifying behaviors due to, presumably, a recognition of the problematic situation defined by perceived effects. Such behaviors would be aimed at restricting messages with negative influence, correcting messages with ambiguous influence, and amplifying messages with positive influence. Th…
Influence of Hostile Media Perception on Willingness to Engage in Discursive Activities: An Examination of Mediating Role of Media Indignation
This study examines the mediating role of media indignation, a set of negative emotional reactions to media coverage perceived to have partisan bias, between hostile media perception (HMP) and its consequences in behavioral willingness, more specifically, willingness to engage in discursive activities. It is examined together with a cognitive pathway through individuals' inference on opinion climate. Data from a web-based survey of university stu…
Understanding the Third-Person Perception: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis
The third-person effect hypothesis has generated a vibrant research area. The expansion of this literature poses need for a systematic synthesis of the empirical evidence and assessment of the viability of various theoretical accounts. For this purpose, a metaanalysis is conducted on all published empirical studies of the perceptual component. This analysis covers 60 papers, 106 studies, and 372 effect sizes. Results from a series of multilevel m…
The Multiple Meanings of Age for Television Content Preferences
Two studies examined how adult age and time of measurement influence media preferences. Study 1 (using TV ratings data from 1970s to 1980s) found that the popularity of genres varied over time, but even after controlling for year, age groups differed in (a) genre choices (consistent with socioemotional selectivity theory) and (b) age of characters viewed (consistent with age identity theory). The average age of characters in each program partiall…
Occupy Wall Street on the Public Screens of Social Media: The Many Framings of the Birth of a Protest Movement: OWS on the Public Screens of Social Media
Amid a dizzying array of social media, the ground of activism has fractured into decentered knots creating a cacophony of panmediated worlds. Our analysis of Occupy Wall Street (Ows) offers a preliminary charting of the fragmenting of the old media world into a proliferation of social media worlds. On old media, Ows was stillborn, first neglected, and then frivolously framed. On social media, Ows's emergence was vibrant, its manifestations much d…
Rethinking Public Health: Promoting Public Engagement Through a New Discursive Environment
I reexamine the notion of public health after reviewing critiques of the prevalent individualistic conception of health. I argue that public health should mean not only the health of the public but also health in the public and by the public, and I expound on the social contingency of health and highlight the importance of the interpersonal dimensions of health conditions and health promotion efforts. Promoting public health requires activating h…
Perceived Message Influence and Hispanic Women: The Disappearance of Self-Other Perceptual Bias
The third-person effect (TPE) hypothesis states that people typically perceive the media messages to have greater influence on others than on themselves. Though this self-other perceptual bias has been shown to be robust across a variety of message contexts, past research has typically utilized Caucasian college student samples. The current study addresses this shortcoming in the literature by examining whether the TPE hypothesis holds for low-in…
Microorganisms From Hands of Traditional Chinese Medical Doctors in a Central Hospital Environment
Background: In a central hospital, the heavy clinical workload makes one to overlook its hazard to health and can to a large extent promote the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms. It is not uncommon however, to observe practices that deviate from normal standards of hygiene. Hand contact between doctors of TCM and patients may lead to nosocomial infections. Materials and Methods: Samples were sourced and collected from hands of TCM doctors…
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Mainland China
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 has posed a significant threat to both humans and birds, and it has spanned large geographic areas and various ecological systems throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, but especially in mainland China. Great efforts in control and prevention of the disease, including universal vaccination campaigns in poultry and active serological and virological surveillance, have been undertaken in mainland China sin…
Examining First- and Second-Order Factor Structures for News Credibility
The construct of news credibility has been of interest to communication scholars for decades, yet researchers have struggled to develop a measure of news credibility that demonstrates a reliable factor structure and construct validity. This study uses confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and discriminant analysis to evaluate Abdulla and colleagues’ (2004) measure of news credibility. Results indicate that although the factor structure of the measur…
Comparing Theories of Media Learning: Cognitive Mediation, Information Utility, and Knowledge Acquisition from Cancer News
Determining what factors predict media learning is an important avenue of research for the field of mass communication. The present study provides a comparative investigation of two models of media learning: the cognitive mediation model and the information utility model. Participants (N = 1,076) read a news article related to scientific discoveries relevant to cancer prevention and responded to all constructs of the two models. Recognition and c…
Microorganisms from hands of traditional Chinese medical doctors in a central hospital environment
Background: In a central hospital, the heavy clinical workload makes one to overlook its hazard to health and can to a large extent promote the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms. It is not uncommon however, to observe practices that deviate from normal standards of hygiene. Hand contact between doctors of TCM and patients may lead to nosocomial infections.Materials and Methods: Samples were sourced and collected from hands of TCM doctors …
Health e‐mavens: Identifying active online health information users
BACKGROUND: Given the rapid increase of Internet use for effective health communication, it is important for health practitioners to be able to identify and mobilize active users of online health information across various web-based health intervention programmes. We propose the concept 'health e-mavens' to characterize individuals actively engaged in online health information seeking and sharing activities. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to addres…
Exploring Environmentalism amidst the Clamor of Networks: A Social Network Analysis of Utah Environmental Organizations
Dwelling in a world awash in multiple environmental crises while science and social theory erode the last vestiges of the subject of humanism, it makes sense to imagine our world beyond the lens of humanism and turn to diverse methodologies in order to explore what is going on and how to promote changes that nurture ecological sustainability. In this essay we take on this task in relation to environmental communication. In what follows we explore…
Herb-Resistant Upec Strains Have Different Biofilm Formation Abilities and Different Expression of Certain Biofilm Related Genes
Background: The mechanisms and patterns of drug resistances of E. coli strains that cause uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) vary considerably. The emerging herbresistance of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) has been a serious health problem, yet with unknown underlying mechanisms. Methods: To explore the potential herb-resistance mechanisms of E. coli strains that cause uncomplicated UTIs, three clinically isolated herb-resistant…
Not All Perceptual Gaps Were Created Equal: Explicating the Third-Person Perception (TPP) as a Cognitive Fallacy
Explicating the third-person perception (TPP) as a cognitive fallacy in the process of comparative social judgment of media effects, we propose that not all self–other perceptual gaps in media effects should be considered as TPP. When there is reasonably valid and accurate information regarding self vis-à-vis others on media consumption and vulnerability to media influence, the associated self–other gaps in media effects are not exaggerations, he…
Effects of Co-Processing Sewage Sludge in the Cement Kiln on PAHs, Heavy Metals Emissions and the Surrounding Environment
To understand the effects of co-processing sewage sludge in the cement kiln on non-criterion pollutants emissions and its surrounding environment, the flue gas from a cement kiln stack, ambient air and soil from the background/downwind sites were collected in the cement plant. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals of the samples were analyzed. The results show that PAHs in flue gas mainly exist in the gas phase and the low mole…
Disgusting microbes: The effect of disgust on perceptions of risks related to modifying microbiomes
Research on perceived risks of scientific issues has largely overlooked the influence of disgust as a predictor. Here, we examine the impact of disgust on perceived risks of modifying microbiomes using a 2 (emotion) × 2 (focus) experiment embedded in an online survey. We find evidence of moderated mediation where individuals exposed to an article about microbiome research and therapies with explicit references to disgusting stimuli perceived grea…
Disgust, Need for Affect, and Responses to Microbiome Research
Contributing to the literature on affective processing and attitude formation, this study investigates the effects of a discrete emotion (disgust) and an emotional disposition (need for affect [NFA]) on support for regulation in the context of microbiome research. Data from a web-based experiment (N = 1,005) showed that experienced disgust mediated the effect of disgust-eliciting information on support for regulation. This mediated relationship w…
Spatial-temporal response patterns of tourist flow under impulse pre-trip information search: From online to arrival
How conversational ties are formed in an online community: A social network analysis of a tweet chat group
This paper examines the generative processes underlying the conversational network structure of a tweet chat community (#dsma, ‘Diabetes Social Media Advocacy’). Taking a relational perspective to the study of mediated communication, this paper uses social network analysis and treats conversational ties as the unit of analysis. It explores the formation of such ties in a multitheoretical, multilevel framework via exponential random graph modeling…
Overcoming Resistance Through Narratives: Findings from a Meta-Analytic Review
To understand the mechanisms underlying narrative persuasion, a growing body of theoretical and empirical work suggests that narratives reduce audience resistance, possibly via narrative engagement. To synthesize this research, we performed a two-part meta-analysis using three-level random-effects models. Part I focused on experimental studies that directly compared narratives and non-narratives on resistance. Based on 15 effect sizes from nine e…
Vocabulary in high-school EFL textbooks: Texts and learner knowledge
Not Published Is Not Perished: Addressing Publication Bias in Meta-Analytic Studies in Communication
Publication bias has been recognized as a threat to the validity of meta-analytic findings and scientific knowledge in general. Given the recent rise in meta-analytic research in communication, how well publication bias concerns are addressed by communication meta-analysts merits attention. In this essay, after a brief overview of publication bias and some major methods of assessment, we provide a systematic review of meta-analyses published in s…
Mobilizing the Public in Saving the Bonneville Salt Flats: Understanding Blame as a Psychological Construct
This study seeks to explicate blame as a psychological construct. Situated in the environmental problem of the decline of the Bonneville Salt Flats (BSF), the study examines the structure of blame and how it may mediate message effect on the public’s issue engagement to save the BSF. With data collected from a Web-based experiment on a college student sample, blame was shown to be best modeled as a latent construct consisting of both the cognitiv…
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Media Influence and Health (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Perception (6 works)