Hi! I'm Kara.

I am a current PhD Candidate in Communication at The Ohio State University. I am a quantitative social scientist interested in how and why individuals find certain types of information or evidence persuasive.

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Passed Comprehensive Examinations

Passed Comprehensive Examinations

I successfully defended my comprehensive examinations and have become a Ph.D. candidate! A huge thank you to my committee members: Dr. Dominik Stecuła, Dr. Mike Slater, Dr. Hillary Shulman, and Dr. R. …

Top Paper in Political Communication at NCA

Top Paper in Political Communication at NCA

Excited to share that Rob Bond, Erik Nisbet, R. Kelly Garrett, and I received a Top Paper award from the Political Communication division at NCA! Using an 8-wave panel survey conducted over the course …

Top Paper in Social Cognition at NCA

Top Paper in Social Cognition at NCA

I am happy to share that Team Fluency received a Top Paper award from the Social Cognition division at NCA. Our paper investigated how code-mixing in a narrative can impede processing fluency and …

New Publication

New Publication

My newest publication, from the minds of Team Fluency, is out now at *Communication Research*! We found that including foreign language terms (or code-mixing) in a narrative inhibits processing …

First Publication

First Publication

I am excited to share that my first publication is now out! In collaboration with Dr. Hillary Shulman, I investigated how easy or difficult processing experiences can influence subsequent information …

M.A. Graduation

M.A. Graduation

I successfully defended my M.A. thesis, "The Seed-of-Truth Effect: The Role of Premise Veracity in Support for False Conclusions." Thank you to my advisor, Dr. R. Kelly Garrett, and my committee …