Unintended Effects in Health and Risk Communication
Work in Progress
Chung, M., Willis, E., & Applequist, J. (revise and resubmit at Journal of Advertising). Unraveling the Ozempic craze: A content and thematic analysis of prescription weight loss medication advertisements on Meta.
Chung, M., Morrow, E., Migotto, L., Maslowska, E., & Quick, B. L. (revise and resubmit at Communication Research). Don’t cross the creepy line: Privacy intrusion as a freedom threat in personalized persuasive communication.
Ji, A., Paltaratskaya, V., Chung, M., Wise, K., & Willis, E. (under review). Seeing the whole picture: Psychological processing of risk and benefit information in social media pharmaceutical advertising.
Barriers and Resistance to Persuasion: Implications for Strategic Communication
Publications
Bigsby, E., & Chung, M. (2025). Exemplification theory. In J. Volkman (Ed.), A Multi-Perspective Approach to Narratives in Health Communication. Bloomsbury.
Quick, B. L., Chung, M., Morrow, E. & Reynolds-Tylus, T. (2024). Can happiness and sadness overcome organ donation barriers following exposure to radio ads? Journal of Health Communication, 29(3), 200-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2313988
Quick, B. L., Morrow, E., Wilson, S., Chung, M., Hartman, D., & Koester, B. (2024). Psilocybin legalization in the U.S. and psychological reactance: A test of evidence uncertainty, controlling language, and an ambiguous call to action. Motivation Science. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000361
Work in Progress
Chung, M., Han, J., Miller, M. J., & Quick, B. L. (revise and resubmit at Journal of Health Communication). Organ donor gratitude letters as a novel way to boost organ donation in South Korea.
Chung, M., Bigsby, E., & Hovick, S. R. (under review). Does health information from different sources lead to divergent protective action perceptions? An application of the protective action decision model.
New Media Technology: Uses, Effects, and Resistance
Publications
Jeong, S. H., Yum, J. Y., Choi, I., Choi, S., & Chung, M. (2017). Media multitasking research in Korea: Uses and effects research. The Korean Journal of Advertising and Public Relations, 19(1), 102-135. https://doi.org/10.16914/KJAPR.2017.19.1.102
Jeong, S. H., Yum, J. Y., Choi, I., Choi, S., & Chung, M. (2017). Daypart differences in media multitasking: A diary study. The Korean Journal of Advertising, 28(1), 127-149. https://doi.org/10.14377/KJA.2017.1.15.6
Yum, J. Y., Choi, S., Chung, M., Choi, I., & Jeong, S. H. (2016). The effects of smartphone addiction intervention for elementary school students. Journal of Cybercommunication Academic Society, 33(2), 125-160.
Work in Progress
Chung, M., Oh, J. J., & Maslowska, E. (data analysis). Playing hide & seek with algorithms: Investigating social media users’ algorithm refinement behavior.
Chung, M. (invited for submission to Psychology of Popular Media). Not pro-ana nor pro-recovery: An exploration of general online eating disorder communities through the transactional model of social media and body image concerns.
Chung, M., & Morrow, E. (under review). Negotiating health (mis)information on social media: A text mining analysis of debunking the debunk.
Other Work
Publications
Quick, B. L., Caban, S., Chung, M., & Yan, J. (2025). Health communication and mental health: An examination of frameworks of information seeking, processing, and dissemination. In Yzer, M. & Siegel, J. (Eds.), The Handbook of Mental Health Communication. Wiley.
Work in Progress
Hovick, S. R., Bigsby, E., Ryu, J. Y., Fujimoto, E., & Chung, M. (revise and resubmit at Communication Research). Towards a theoretical understanding of information behaviors across the stages of change.
Guntzviller, L. M., Jacobs Farnworth, M., Chung, M., Thompson, C. M., Kelpinski, L. F., & Kumar, J. S. (under review). Internal medicine residents in the opioid pandemic: An interpersonal communication perspective on differing evaluations of OSCE strategies.