Janice Krieger Guest Edits Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Associate Professor Janice Krieger, director of the Stem Translational Communication Center (STCC), was guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. The special issue highlights “the ways in which science communication, and in particular translational communication, implicates the nuances of language.”

Krieger and co-editor Cindy Gallois, emeritus professor in Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Queensland (Australia), also published an article in that issue on “Translating Science:  Using the Science of Language to Explicate the Language of Science”. According to the authors, “In this special issue … we aim to create an intellectual space for exploring the connections between two distinct but complementary academic pursuits,” the language of science and the science of language.

Other CJC faculty contributed to this special issue, including “Innovation or Inconsistency? Framing Colorectal Cancer Guidelines to Improve Public Perceptions of Updated Screening Recommendations”, co-authored by Krieger and Jordan Neil, research assistant in the STCC, Sriram Kalyanaraman, professor of Journalism, and Thomas George, medical director of the UF GI Oncology Program.

Assistant Research Professor Yulia Strekalova co-authored an article titled “I Understand How You Feel: The Language of Empathy in Virtual Clinical Training” with Krieger, Neil, John Caughlin, professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, A.J. Kleinheksel, director of instructional design at Shadow Health and Aaron Kotranza, Shadow Health CTO.

Posted: January 5, 2017
Category: College News
Tagged as: Janice Krieger, Sri Kalyanaraman, Yulia Strekalova