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Dr. Chu is an expert in health and risk communication, specializing in various populations. His research employs artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced research techniques to understand, explain, and predict behaviors of individuals and groups concerning health and environmental risks, including infectious diseases, natural hazards, and technological disruptions. His latest work explores the ethical and effective use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in developing motivational messages for health behavioral changes in at-risk populations. He excels in 1. developing, testing, implementing, and assessing tailored messages for public interest and corporate campaigns; 2. integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into social systems, such as companies; and 3. assessing and addressing public reactions to emerging risks and crises.
Chu, H. & Liu, S. (2023) Psychological Distance, Construal Level, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19, HPV, and Monkey Pox Vaccines. Science Communication.
Hmielowski, J, Matthews, A, & Chu, H. (2023) Going the Distance for COVID 19: Relationships among News Use, Psychological Distance, Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions. Science Communication.
Chu, H. & Liu, S. (2023) Risk-Efficacy Framework – A new perspective on threat and efficacy appraisal and the role of disparity. Current Psychology.
Liu, S. & Chu, H. (2023) Parents’ COVID-19, HPV, and Monkeypox vaccination intention: A multilevel structural equation model of risk, benefit, barrier, and efficacy perceptions and individual characteristics. Patient Education & Counseling.
Lu, H. & Chu, H. (2023) Let the Dead Talk: How Deepfake Resurrection Narratives Influence Audience Response in Prosocial Contexts. Computers in Human Behavior.
Gong, Z. & Chu, H. (2022) Seeing Risks or Solutions: Psychological Distance and Ecological Worldview Moderated the Effect of Disgust Imagery on Visual Attention to Environmental Messages. Sage Open, 12(2).
Huang, J., Yang, J. Z., & Chu, H. (2022). Framing Climate Change Impacts as Moral Violations: The Pathway of Perceived Message Credibility. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 5210.
Chu, H. (2022) Construing Climate Change: Psychological distance, individual difference and construal level of climate change. Environmental Communication.
Lu, H. & Chu, H. (2022) The Search between Two Worlds: Motivations for and Consequences of U.S.-Dwelling Chinese’s Use of U.S. and Chinese Media for COVID-19 Information. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.
Lu, H., Chu, H., & Ma, Y. (2022) Mask on while Asian: How Acculturation, Media Use and Perception, and Alienation Influence U.S.-Dwelling Chinese’s Protective Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Social Science Journal.
Liu, S. & Chu, H. (2022) Exploring the direct and indirect effects of trust in COVID-19 vaccine promotion. Patient Education & Counseling.
Chu, H. & Lu, H. (2021) Acculturation, bilateral hostility, and psychological wellbeing of U.S.-dwelling Chinese during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Communication.
Yang, J. Z., Chu, H., & Liu, S. (2021) FEMA, media, or search engine? Rumor validation on social media during disasters. Disaster.
Yuan, S., & Chu, H. (2021) Vaccine for yourself, your community, or your country? Examining audiences’ response to distance framing of COVID-19 vaccine messages. Patient Education & Counseling.
Chu, H. & Liu, S. (2021) Light at the end of the tunnel: Influence of vaccine availability and vaccination intention on people’s consideration of the COVID-19 vaccine. Social Science & Medicine, 286, 114315.
Chu, H., Yang, J. Z., & Liu, S. (2021) Not my pandemic: Solution aversion and the polarized public perception of COVID-19. Science Communication, 43(4), 508-528.
Lu, H., Chu, H., & Ma, Y. (2021) Experience, Experts, Statistics or Science? Predictors and Consequences of Reliance on Different Evidence Types during the COVID-19 Infodemic. Public Understanding of Science, 30(5), 515-534.
Chu, H. & Liu, S. (2021) Integrating health behavior theories to predict COVID-19 vaccines uptake intent among the American public. Patient Education and Counseling, 104(8), 1878-1886.
Chu, H., Liu, S., & Yang, J. Z. (2021) Together we survive: The role of social media in fostering social capital and disaster resilience among minority communities. Natural Hazards, 106(3), 2711-2729.
Chu, H., Yuan, S., & Liu, S. (2021). Call them COVIDiots: Exploring the effects of aggressive communication style and psychological distance in the communication of COVID-19. Public Understanding of Science, 30(3), 240-257.
Liu, S., Yang, J. Z. & Chu, H. (2021). When we increase fear, do we dampen hope? Using narrative persuasion to promote HPV vaccination in China. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(11), 1999-2009.
Chu, H. & Yang, J. Z. (2020) Their Economy and Our Health: Communicating Climate Change with Issue and Distance Framing to the Divided American Public. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), 7718.
Chu, H. & Yang, J. Z. (2020) Desirable or feasible? How psychological distance influences climate change engagement. Risk Analysis, 40(4), 758-770.
Chu, H. & Yang, J. Z. (2020) Building disaster resilience with social messaging networks: WeChat community in Houston during Hurricane Harvey. Disasters, 44(4), 726-752.
Chu, H. & Yang, J. Z. (2019) Emotion and psychological distance of climate change. Science Communication, 41(6), 761-789.
Yang, J. Z., Chu, H., & Kahlor, L. (2019) Fearful conservatives, angry liberals: Information processing related to the 2016 presidential election and climate change. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(3), 742-766.
Liu, S., Yang, J. Z., & Chu, H. (2019). Now or future? Analyzing the effects of message frame and format in motivating Chinese females to get HPV vaccines for their children. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(1), 61-67.
Chu, H. & Yang, J. Z. (2018) Taking climate change here and now – mitigating ideological polarization through psychological distance. Global Environmental Change, 53, 174-181.
Liu, S., Yang, J. Z., Chu, H., Sun, S., & Li, H. (2018). Different culture or different mind? Perception and acceptance of HPV vaccine in China and in the U.S. Journal of Health Communication, 23(12), 1008-1016.
Yang, J. Z., & Chu, H. (2018). Who is afraid of the Ebola outbreak? The influence of discrete emotions on risk perception. Journal of Risk Research, 21, 834-853.
Grizzard, M., Huang, J., Fitzgerald, K., Ahn, C., & Chu, H. (2017) Sensing heroes and villains: Character-schema and the disposition formation process. Communication Research, 45, 479-501.
Grizzard, M., Huang, J., Weiss, J. K., Novotny, E. R., Fitzgerald, K., Chu, H., Ngoh, Z. Y., Plante, A., & Ahn, C. (2017). Graphic violence as moral motivator: The effects of graphically violent content in news. Mass Communication and Society, 20, 763-783.
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