Next meeting Oct 30

Please join us at our next meeting on Tuesday, October 30, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, in Derby 3116. Faculty members Anthony Roberto and Janice Raup-Krieger will present on "Using targeting and tailoring to enhance prevention messages for Hispanics." Hope to see you there!

New data analysis sourcebook from Hayes & Slater

Our own Andrew Hayes and Michael Slater have a new book coming out in November called The SAGE Sourcebook of Advanced Data Analysis Methods for Communication Research. This is a must-have resource for students and faculty who want to learn more about statistical topics such as assessing mediation, latent growth modeling, multilevel modeling, propensity scoring, or time series analysis. Here's a link to the table of contents.
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdTOC.nav?prodId=Book228339&currTree=Courses&level1=Course10

Andrew and Michael are co-editors of and contributors to this text. Also, as many of you know, Andrew has another statistics textbook, the famous Statistical Methods for Communication Science.
http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/ahayes/SMCS/default.htm

And Michael has had years of experience as principal investigator of NIDA funded randomized community trials -- in terms of evaluation design and analysis, one of the toughest challenges.

How lucky we are to have this level of expertise in HCRG and the School of Communication!

NIH Submission Process Workshop & Panel Discussion

For those of you interested in learning how to apply for NIH funding, OSU will be holding a workshop Wednesday, Oct. 31 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Biomedical Research Tower, room 115.

This workshop will examine specific areas of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) grant submission process. Staff from NIH will provide detailed information on the Pathway Independence Awards and a brief description of the new Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) program. There will also be a panel of investigators who have received funding from NIH that will share their experiences working with this sponsor throughout proposal development and submission and project management.

**Lunch will be provided.

Contact rees.1@osu.edu for more information. Registration required at: http://rf.osu.edu/inf/e-cal.cfm#186

Next meeting Oct 16

Please join us at our next brown-bag meeting on Tuesday, Oct 16, 12:30-1:30 p.m., in Derby 3116. I'll be taking a turn at presenting; the title is "Examining Self-Concepts and Prototypes as Formative Research for Marijuana Prevention Campaigns."

We'll also devote some time at this meeting to organizational issues. Please be prepared to discuss ideas for presenting your research and for other activities you'd like to see throughout the year.

Thanks, and see you there!

Survey Research Colloquium - Dr. David to present

HCRG member Dr. Prabu David will be presenting his research on the use of mobile devices in health contexts at a Survey Research Colloquium on Wednesday, Oct 17, 12:30-1:30 p.m., in Derby 1039. The talk is sponsored by the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Survey Research.
http://www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/sbs/gissr.php

Please consider attending to support a fellow HCRG member!

Implicit Attitudes - Links to more info

Thanks to everyone who came to our first meeting, and to Cat Goodall for presenting! Given the interest/questions on implicit attitudes generated by Cat's presentation, I'm posting some resources that you might want to check out:

Implicit Association Test:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Includes a cool demonstration and a chance to participate in actual research using this measure.

Affect Misattribution Procedure:
http://www.unc.edu/~bkpayne/publications/Payne_2005_An-Inkblot-for-Attitudes.pdf
Article describing the use of ambiguous stimuli in projective tests. The Chinese character Cat used is an example of such a stimulus.

Lexical Decision Task:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/experiments/lexical.html
Another online demonstration. This one involves decisions as to whether letter strings are words or not. We didn't discuss this type of measure at the meeting, and this demo doesn't get at how primes can make it easier to recognize words related to the primed construct. But it does demonstrate the basic recognition task.