Asheley R. Landrum

Associate Professor,

Journalism & Mass Comm

Other ASU affiliations

Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

Asheley.Landrum@asu.edu

Mail code: 2020

Campus: Dtphx
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Long Bio

Asheley R. Landrum is an associate professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Senior Global Futures Scientist Arizona State University. Her research investigates how values and worldviews influence people's selection and processing of information and how these phenomena develop from childhood into adulthood.

Asheley is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and she is serving on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's consensus panel "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science." Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust.

Asheley is deeply committed to researcher-practitioner partnerships and has collaborated with journalistic outlets and content creators such as KQED public media, PBS Digital Studios, and Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN. These collaborations ensure that her research not only advances scholarly knowledge, but that it has practical applications in enhancing the practice of communication and builds bridges between the academy and professional practice.

Education

Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville

PhD, Psychological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (2013)

MS, Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas (2011)

BA, English, Philosophy, and Biology (Minor), University of Texas at Austin (2005)

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jwfLK58AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Experts.asu.edu URL

https://newsroom.asu.edu/expert/asheley-landrum

ORCID Profile ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3074-804X

Research Interests

I investigate how values and worldviews influence people's selection and processing of (science) information and how these phenomena develop from childhood into adulthood.

Key Words: Attitudes; Conspiracy Theories; Engagement with Science Media; Epistemic Trust; Identity; Media Psychology; Public Understanding of Science; Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships; Science Curiosity; Science and Health Misinformation; Science of Science Communication; Views and Values

Publications

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