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Bridget Rubenking
Information:
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Telecommunications
brubenki 'at' indiana 'dot' edu
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Biography:
My research interests are in cognitive and emotional processing of media. I am interested in how biologically based individual differences, emotional responses, and attitudes interact with one another to predict a variety of information processing and discrete behavior outcomes. My recent research has focused on how motivational differences (i.e. one's trait appetitive and defensive systems' reactivity to emotional stimuli) interact with implicitly and explicitly measured attitudes to predict substance use and quitting, as well as time spent with mediated emotional content. Moving forward, my dissertation is exploring the discrete emotion of disgust through a motivational, limited capacity approach, as well as attempting to validate a new (to the media psychology lab) facial EMG indicator of disgust.
I am a PhD candidate in the department and am involved in several research projects through the Institute for Communication Research. I have a Master's in Communication from Cleveland State University, a Bachelor's in Journalism & Mass Communication from Kent State University, and am currently a member of the International Communication Association and the Society of Psychophysiological Research.
