PhD projects Communication Science

Research Programme: Communication Choices, Content and Consequences: New Media, New Methods (CCCC)

Current PhD Projects

  • Drs. A.E. Batenburg; When Story-Telling Makes a Difference: Effects of Online Health Forum Participation on Patients’ Psychological and Physical Wellbeing.  
  • Drs. X. Plaisier; Peer rejection, emotions and anti-social media preferences
  • Drs. J. Takens; Short-term media logic and the long-term viability of democracy.
  • Drs. J. Veldhuis; Peer influence on the effects of media-induced body dissatisfaction.

Completed PhD Projects

2011

  • Drs. M. Pontier; Virtual Agents for Human Communication – Emotion Regulation and Involvement –Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents and Robots.

2009

  • Dr. G.M. van Koningsbruggen; Processing and Acceptance of Threatening Health Information. The impact of self-affirmation under different levels of self-threat; 11 June 2009.

2008

2007

Department of Communication Science  

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