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Holmstrom, A., Dorrance Hall, E., Wilcox, S., Schmälzle, R. (2023). Confirmation, disconfirmation, and communal coping for joint physical activity in romantic dyads. Health Communication.

Schmälzle, R., Wilcox, S., Jahn, N. T. (2022). Identifying moments of peak audience engagement from brain responses during story listening. Communication Monographs pdf

Schmälzle, R., Wilcox, S. (2022). Harnessing AI for health message generation: The Folic Acid message engine. Journal of Medical Internet Research. link

Dorrance Hall., E., Wilcox, S., Holmstrom, A. J., McGraw, J., Schmaelzle, R. (2021) Reactance to healthy eating and physical activity messages: face threat and face management strategies in memorable daily conversations among couples. Health Communication. pdf

Wilcox, S., Huskey, R. DeAndrea, D.C. (2021). Attitude consistent health messages about electronic cigarettes increase processing time; Perceiving message senders as socially close increases message recall. Journal of Media Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000312 pdf

Huskey, R., Keene, J., Wilcox, S., Gong, X., Adams, R., Najera, C. J. (2021) Flexible and modular brain network dynamics characterize flow experiences during media ese: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Communication. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/joc/jqab044 pdf

Schmälzle, R., Wilcox, S., & Grall, C. (2021). Neuroimaging in Environmental Communication Research. In. Takahashi , Metag, Thaker & Evans-Comfort: ICA-Routledge Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication.

Wilcox, S., Dorrance Hall, E., Holmstrom, A.J. & Schmälzle, R. (2020). The emerging frontier of interpersonal communication and neuroscience: scanning the social synapse. Annals of the International Communication Association. pdf

Huskey, R., Wilcox, S., Clayton, R., & Keene, J. R. (2020). The limited capacity model of motivated mediated message processing: Meta-analytically summarizing two decades of research. Annals of the International Communication Association, 44(4), 322–349. pdf

Huskey, R., Eden, A., Grall, C., Meshi, D., Prena, K., Schmälzle, R., Scholz, C., Turner, B., & Wilcox, S. (2020). Marr’s tri-Level framework integrates biology with communication science . Journal of Communication, 70(3), 356-378. pdf

Huskey, R., Wilcox, S., & Weber, R. (2018). Network neuroscience reveals distinct neuromarkers of flow during media use. Journal of Communication, 68(5), 872-895. pdf