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Sheila Murphy

Expert in decision-making, including the effects of emotion, race, gender, culture and mass media
  • Associate Professor of Communication
  • USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Office: (213) 740-0945
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Expertise

  • emotion and cognition and their relative influence on judgments and beliefs
  • decision making
  • information processing
  • organizational/institutional politics
  • organizational communication
  • agenda setting
  • stereotyping
  • persuasive effects of stories or narratives
  • health communication
  • emotion and cognition and their relative influence on judgments and beliefs
  • research methods including surveys, experiments, focus groups and content analysis