Rate My Professor Sungkyoung Lee

Lee pursues two main research lines: designing health communication messaging suited for clinical trial recruitment in minority populations and rural communities; and developing message strategies to enhance public understanding of scientific findings, such as those related to autonomous vehicles. Her publications include "Concrete or Abstract? The effects of picture concreteness and mental illness prevalence on destigmatizing mental illness" (Visual Communication Quarterly, in press); "Improving rural White men’s attitudes toward clinical trial messaging and participation: Effects of framing, exemplars, and trust" (Health Education Research, 2022); "Overcoming black Americans’ psychological and cognitive barriers to clinical trial participation: Effects of news framing and exemplar" (Health Communication, 2022); "Comparisons to picture-perfect motherhood: How Instagram’s idealized portrayals of motherhood affect new mothers’ well-being" (Computers in Human Behavior, 2022); "An informed approach to the development of primary care pediatric firearm safety messages" (BMC Pediatrics, 2022); "Effects of Instagram Body Image Portrayals on Attention, State Body Dissatisfaction, and Appearance Management Behavioral Intention" (Health Communication, 2021); and "Effects of Communication Source and Racial Representation in Clinical Trial Recruitment Flyers" (Health Communication, 2021). She also contributes to leadership education initiatives at the university.