School of Communication, The Ohio State University
Zheng Joyce Wang,
Professor
Bio
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2017-present Full Professor 
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2013-2017 Associate Professor 
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2007-2013 Assistant Professor 
 
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Faculty, School of Communication, OSU 
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Director, Communication and Psychophysiology Lab (CAPLab) 
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Affiliated faculty, Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences 
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Affiliated faculty, Decision Science Collaborative 
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Faculty-in-Residence & Leadership team, Translational Data Analytics 
 
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Associate Editor: Journal of Communication (2018-present) 
 Computers in Human Behavior (2021-present)
Education
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Ph.D., Communication & Cognitive Science (double-major), Indiana University-Bloomington, 2007 
 
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B.S., Journalism & Communication, China Youth University for Political Sciences, Beijing, 2001 
Research Interests
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Motivation, emotion, and cognition in media processing and choice behavior; media design and evaluation. 
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Reciprocal dynamics of choice behavior and information processing; mHealth (mobile health) applications. 
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Psychophysiological methods; dynamic computational modeling methods. 
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Quantum probabilistic and dynamic models of cognition, decision, and communication; contextualized communication, decision and choices; extending the work to modeling communication networks and data fusion. 
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I’ve been especially interested in pursuing new ideas and approaches from cognitive science to the study of communication. 
