Minghui Wang’s research lies at the intersection of media use, emotion, and well-being. Specifically, she examines how positive emotions elicited by media can support psychological well-being and inform interventions.
Minghui is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first line of research highlights the positive potential of media use, examining how media-elicited positive emotions, including awe, hope, amusement, gratitude, and cuteness responses, can support psychological well-being and inform media-based interventions. Her second line of research advances methodological approaches to studying relevant phenomena, particularly when existing tools may obscure meaningful heterogeneity or change over time. Her methodological expertise spans longitudinal analysis, computational text analysis, and mixture modeling.
M.A. (2021), University of Southern California, Communication Management
B.A. (2019), Wuhan University, Communication