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Barbara J. WilsonProfessor; Head of DepartmentEducation: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison Research Interests: Social and psychological effects of mass media; developmental differences in children’s responses to mass media; children’s emotional and cognitive processing of mass media; impact of media violence; media policy implications of social science research. Current Research: Professor Wilson’s research focuses on children’s responses to mass media, particularly fear responses and responses to televised violence. For example, her work has examined how children’s emotional responses to media are related to cognitive and emotional development. Recent projects have focused on children’s reactions to television news and children’s attraction to different types of media characters. She was a co-investigator in the National Television Violence study, in which she examined different types of violence and different contexts in which violent acts are presented. She has also worked with industry to explore the policy implications of the National Television Violence study findings. Representative Recent Publications: Smith, S. L., Lachlan, K., Pieper, K. M., Boyson, A. R., Wilson, B. J., & Tamborini, R. (in press). Brandishing guns in American media: Two studies examining how often and in what context firearms appear on TV and in Popular video games. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Wilson, B. J. (2003). The mass media and family communication. In A.
Vangelisti (Ed.), Handbook of family communication (pp. 561-589). Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Cantor, J. & Wilson, B.J. (2003). Media and violence: Intervention strategies for reducing aggression. Media Psychology, 5, 363-406. Wilson, B.J., Smith, S.L., Potter, W.J., Kunkel, D., Linz, D., Colvin, C., & Donnerstein, E. I. (2002). Violence in children's television programming: Assessing the risks. Journal of Communication, 52(1), 5-35. Smith, S.L., & Wilson, B.J. (2002). Children's comprehension of and reactions to television news. Media Psychology, 4, 1-26. Strasburger, V.C., & Wilson, B.J. (2002). Children, adolescents, and the media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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