Kenneth A. Lachlan
Professor & Department Head/Communication
kenneth.lachlan@uconn.edu
Storrs Mansfield
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Scholarly Contributions
16 Scholarly Contributions
Storms of a feather tweet together: Emergency management communication on Twitter in Hurricane Harvey.
Research Type: Journal Article
Social media and rumor
Research Type: Book Chapter
Sex differences in informational needs and media dependencies during the 2018 California wildfires
Research Type: Journal Article
Responses to risk messaging concerning Hurricane Sandy: Two studies using the Health Belief model
Research Type: Journal Article
Responding to a campus emergency: The effect of alert sources on learning, message speed, and perceptions of campus safety
Research Type: Journal Article
OK, Google, tell me about birth control. Sentiment analysis of anti- and pro- birth control headlines and snippets
Research Type: Journal Article
Needing to know about the crisis back home: Disaster information seeking and disaster media effects following the 2015 Nepali earthquake among Nepalese living outside of Nepal
Research Type: Journal Article
Need for cognition and rumination: Alternate explanations for sex differences in disaster information seeking
Research Type: Journal Article
Listen up: I've done this before: The impact of self-disclosure on source credibility and risk message responses.
Research Type: Journal Article
Frozen while I scan: Examining the impact of media dependencies, socioeconomic status, and rumination on mitigation behaviors related to Hurricane Dorian
Research Type: Journal Article
From what I’ve heard, this is really bad: An examination of Americans’ source preferences and information seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research Type: Journal Article
Exploring sex differences in informational needs, media dependencies, and attention allocation during Hurricane Dorian
Research Type: Journal Article
Exemplification theory
Research Type: Book Chapter
Emotional manipulation and cognitive distraction as strategy: the effects of insulting trash talk on motivation and performance in a competitive setting
Research Type: Journal Article
Crisis communication in context: History and publication trends
Research Type: Journal Article
Comparing responses to risk messages across traditional and robotic platforms: Source credibility, risk perception, and affective response
Research Type: Book Chapter