Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

5838 Ellison Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Telephone: 805-893-4531
E-mail: nabi@comm.ucsb.edu

Robin Nabi

Robin Nabi joined the Department of Communication in 2004 after six years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona. Prof. Nabi received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and her research interests focus on the interplay between emotion and cognition in understanding the effects of mediated messages. Specific interests include the effects of discrete emotions on the cognitive processing and persuasive effect of social issue/health messages, the role of emotion in perception of risk and decision-making, and the effects of entertainment media on attitude and behavior change. Her work has appeared in several journals, including Communication Theory, Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, Media Psychology, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and Cognition and Emotion. Prof. Nabi has also served or is serving on the editorial boards of several journals, including Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Journal of Communication. She is currently a co-editor of Media Psychology and chairs the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association.

Prof. Nabi’s teaching interests include social influence, health communication, communication and emotion, and mass media effects. Her current research projects focus on the role of emotion in media use and perceptions of health threats, the emotional framing of health news, the persuasive effects of humor, and perceptions of reality-based TV.

Education

PhD	1998	Communication	Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania

MA	1994	Communication	Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania

AB	1990	Government	Harvard University

Academic Positions

2005-present
Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

2004-2005
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1998-2004
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Research Interests

Emotion, social influence, and decision-making

Mass media messages and health

Social and psychological effects of the mass media

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Nabi, R. L., & Riddle, K. (accepted for publication) Personality traits as moderators of the cultivation effect. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.

Nabi, R. L., Roskos-Ewoldsen, D., & Dillman-Carpentier, F. (in press). Subjective knowledge and fear appeal effectiveness: Implications for message design. Health Communication.

Nabi, R. L. (2007). Determining dimensions of reality: A cognitive mapping of reality TV programs. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 51, 371 - 389.

Nabi, R. L., Moyer-Guse, E., & Byrne, S. (2007). All joking aside: A serious investigation into the persuasive effect of funny social issue messages. Communication Monographs.

Nabi, R. L., Finnerty, K., Domschke, T., & Hull, S. (2006). Does misery love company? Exploring the therapeutic effects of TV viewing on regretted experiences. Journal of Communication, 56, 689-706.

Nabi, R. L., Stitt, C., Halford, J., & Finnerty, K. (2006). Emotional and cognitive predictors of the enjoyment of reality-based and fictional television programming: An elaboration of the uses and gratifications perspective. Media Psychology, 8, 421-447.

Dillard, J. P., & Nabi, R. L. (2006). The persuasive influence of emotion in cancer prevention and detection messages. Journal of Communication, 56, s123-139.

Nabi, R. L., & Krcmar, M. (2004). Conceptualizing media enjoyment as attitude: Implications for mass media effects research. Communication Theory, 14, 288-310.

Nabi, R. L., Biely, E. N., Morgan, S. J., & Stitt, C. (2003). Reality-based television programming and the psychology of its appeal. Media Psychology, 5, 303-330.

Nabi, R. L., & Hendriks, A. (2003). The persuasive effect of host and audience reaction shots in TV talk shows. Journal of Communication, 53, 527-543.

Nabi, R. L. (2003). “Feeling” resistance: Exploring the role of emotionally evocative visuals in inducing inoculation. Media Psychology, 5, 199-223.

Nabi, R. L. (2003). The framing effects of emotion: Can discrete emotions influence information recall and policy preference? Communication Research, 30, 224-247.

Nabi, R. L. (2002). Anger, fear, uncertainty, and attitudes: A test of the cognitive-functional model. Communication Monographs, 69, 204-216.

Nabi, R. L. (2002). The lay versus theoretical meaning of disgust: Implications for emotion research. Cognition and Emotion, 16, 695-703.

Segrin, C., & Nabi, R. L. (2002). Does television viewing cultivate unrealistic expectations about marriage? Journal of Communication, 52, 247-263.

Nabi, R. L., Southwell, B., & Hornik, R. (2002). Predicting intentions vs. predicting behaviors: A look at actions to prevent domestic violence. Health Communication, 14, 429-449.

Fishbein, M., Hall-Jamieson, K., Zimmer, E., von Haeften, I., & Nabi, R. (2002). Avoiding the boomerang: The need for experimental tests of the relative effectiveness of anti-drug public service announcements prior to their use in a national campaign. American Journal of Public Health, 92, 238-245.

Nabi, R. L., & Sullivan, J. L. (2001). Does television viewing relate to engagement in protective behaviors against crime?: A cultivation analysis from a theory of reasoned action perspective. Communication Research, 28, 802-825.

Nabi, R. L., & Horner, J. R. (2001). Victims with voices: How abused women conceptualize the problem of spouse abuse and implications for intervention and prevention. Journal of Family Violence, 16, 237-253.

Nabi, R. L. (1999). A cognitive-functional model for the effects of discrete negative emotions on information processing, attitude change, and recall. Communication Theory, 9, 292-320.

Nabi, R. L. (1998). The effect of disgust-eliciting visuals on attitudes toward animal experimentation. Communication Quarterly, 46, 472-484.

Invited Publications

Nabi, R. L. (in press). Communication (Media). In K. Scherer & D. Sander (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Affective Sciences.

Nabi, R. L. (in press). Resistance and persuasion. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication.

Nabi, R. L. (in press). Selective attention. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication.

Clark, S., Nabi, R. L., & Moyer-Guse, E. (2007). Television consumption and young women's expectations of sexual timing. Media Report to Women, 35, 4 Ð 12.

Nabi, R. L. (2007). Emotion and persuasion: A social cognitive perspective. In D. R. Roskos-Ewoldsen & J. Monahan (Eds.), Social cognition and communication: Theories and methods (pp. 377 - 398). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Nabi, R. L. (2007). "And miles to go...": Reflecting on the past and future of mass media effects research. In M. Allen & J. Bryant (Eds.), Meta-analyses of mass communication effects research (pp. 137-144). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Nabi, R. L. (2006). Reality TV. In J. Arnett (Ed), Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media.

Nabi, R. L. (2002). Discrete emotions and persuasion. In J. Dillard & M. Pfau (Eds.), Handbook of Persuasion (289-308). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Teaching Experience

Theories of Social Influence	(graduate)
Emotion and Media Effects Seminar	(graduate)
Mass Media Effects Research Seminar	(graduate)
Survey of Health Communication Research	(graduate)
Theories of Mass Communication	(undergraduate)
Communication and Emotion	(undergraduate)
Persuasion	(undergraduate)
Introduction to Mass Media Effects	(undergraduate)
Communication Theory	(undergraduate)
Health Communication	(undergraduate)

Professional Service

Chair	ICA Mass Communication Division	2007 –

Vice Chair	ICA Mass Communication Division	2005 – 2007

Co-Editor	Media Psychology	2006 –

Co-Editor (with Mary Beth Oliver)	Communication Theory Special Issue on Media Enjoyment	2004

Editorial Board	Human Communication Research Communication Theory Communication Monographs Journal of Communication Communication Research Media Psychology	2000 – 2003, 2006 – 2003 – 2004 – 2004 – 2005 – 2005 –

Ad Hoc Reviewer:	Communication Monographs Communication Reports Communication Research Communication Theory Communication Yearbook Health Communication Journal of Applied Communication Research Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Journal of Language and Social Psychology Journal of Personality & Social Psychology Mass Communication & Society Media Psychology Motivation & Emotion Personality and Individual Differences Popular Communication Psychology & Health Social Science & Medicine