My research centers on science and risk communication with a specific focus on persuasion, information processing and motivated reasoning. Recent work of mine explores how diverse audiences process and react to messages on polarizing and controversial science and risk topics, including genetically modified foods, self-driving cars, climate change, nuclear power and vaccination.

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Dixon, G., Bullock, O., & Adams, D. (2019). Unintended effects of emphasizing the role of climate change in recent natural disasters. Environmental Communication, 13(2), 135-143. DOI.

Dixon, G., & Hubner, A. (2018). Neutralizing the effect of political worldviews by communicating scientific agreement: A thought-listing study. Science Communication, 40(3), 393-415. DOI.

Ma, Y., Dixon, G., & Hmielowski, J. D. (2019). Psychological reactance from reading basic facts on climate change: The role of prior views and political identification. Environmental Communication, 13(1), 71-86. DOI.