- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Media and Politics
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Point processes and geometric inequalities
- Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
- Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Freedom of Expression and Defamation
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Tulane University
2004-2023
Swansea University
2020
Laypersons differentiate between two confrontations styles, varying in communication style, perceived motive, and typical context: call‐outs (typically public, non‐accommodating language, self‐promoting confronter) call‐ins private, accommodating education‐focused confronter). Popular press espouses a general preference for relative to call‐outs, but no empirical work has addressed perceptions of these confrontation styles. To investigate the presumed efficacy we modelled communicative...
Woods and Ruscher examine hate speech as a multifaceted phenomenon that has adapted to novel communication contexts opportunities. In particular, online represents growing opportunity for individuals engage in anonymous speech, situation merits additional research several reasons. The authors posit, first, this specific type of warrants focused because it may not altogether fit into pre-established categories events, matter have implications the likelihood legal censure. Second, incarnation...
Public spaces that are named for or commemorate prejudiced historical figures may harm targets of prejudice. They can signal what a community believes values and, consequently, exacerbate targets’ perceptions hostility, reduced safety, and low belongingness. Across six studies ( n = 505 BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, people color]; 1,230 White U.S. university students), we examined: the effect space names on target versus nontarget harms belonging (Study 1), whether beliefs (Studies 2a 2b), as...
Suspected colorectal cancer (CRC) referrals based on non-specific symptoms currently lead to large numbers of patients being referred for invasive investigations and poor yield in detection. Secondary care diagnostics, particularly endoscopy, struggle meet the ever-increasing demand face lengthy waits from point referral. Here we propose a blood test utilising high-throughput Raman spectroscopy machine learning as an accurate triage tool. We present results first mixed methods clinical...