Academic Publications
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
Wang, Z., & Gantz, W. (in press). Health content in local television news: A current appraisal. Health Communication.
Gantz, W., & Wang, Z. (in press). Coverage of cancer in local television news. Journal of Cancer Education.
Wang, Z., & Gantz, W. (2007). Health content in local television news. Health Communication, 21, 213-221.
Lang, A., Park, B. H., Sanders, A., Wilson, B., & Wang, Z. (2007). Cognition and emotion in TV message processing: How valence, arousing content, structural complexity, and information density affect the availability of cognitive resources. Media Psychology, 10, 317-338.
Busemeyer, J. R., Wang, Z., & Townsend, J. T. (2006). Quantum dynamics of human decision-making. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 50, 220-241.
Gantz, W., Wang, Z., Paul, B, & Potter, R.F. (2006). Sports versus all comers: Comparing TV sports fans with fans of other programming genres. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 50, 95-118.
Lang, A., Shin, M., Bradley, S.D., Wang, Z., Lee, S., & Potter, D. (2005). Wait! Don’t turn that dial! More excitement to come! The effects of story length and production pacing in local television news on channel changing behavior and information processing in a free choice environment. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 49, 3-22.
Conference Proceedings (Peer-Reviewed, full-text)
Wang, Z., Busemeyer, J.R., & Lang, A. (2006). Grazing or staying tuned: A dynamic stochastic model of channel changing behavior. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society & the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science (pp.870-875). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Busemeyer, J.R., Matthew, M.R., & Wang, Z. (2006). A quantum information processing explanation of disjunction effects. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society & the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science (pp.131-135). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Journal Abstracts (Peer-Reviewed)
Wang, Z., & Busemeyer, J.R.(2007). Motivation, emotion, and attention: A dynamic approach. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 48th Annual Meeting (Vol. 12), p.11.
Busemeyer, J.R., Wang, Z., & Matthew, M.R. (2007). A quantum information processing explanation of disjunction effects. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society 48th Annual Meeting (Vol. 12), p.2.
Gantz, W., & Wang, Z. (2006). Cancer information in local television news: From an information seeking perspective. Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference proceedings.
Wang, Z., & Lang, A. (2006). Ad placement matters: A psychophysiological examination of program context effects on advertising processing. Psychophysiology, 43(S1), S104.
Potter, R.F., Wang, Z., Angelini, J.R., Sanders-Jackson, A., Kurita, S., Koruth, J., & Lang, A. (2006). The effect of structural complexity and information density on cognitive effort and arousal during audio message processing. Psychophysiology, 43(S1), S79.
Lang, A., Sparks, J., Bradley, S.D., Lee, S.K., & Wang, Z. (2004). Processing arousing information: Psychophysiological predictors of motivated attention. Psychophysiology, 41(S1), S61.
Bradley, S.D., Shin, M., Wang, Z., Lee, S.J., & Lang, A. (2003). Processing the nightly news: How shot and story length affect effort, arousal, and encoding. Psychophysiology, 40(S1), S27.
Shin, M., Bradley, S.D., Lee, S.J., Wang, Z., & Lang, A. (2003). Why people change: Does physiology predict channel changing behavior? Psychophysiology, 40(S1), S78.
Fox, J.R., Chung, Y., Lee, S.W., Schwartz, N., Haverhals, L., Wang, Z., Lang, A., & Potter, D. (2003). Effects of graphics on processing television news. Psychophysiology, 40(S1), S41.
Fox, J.R., Lang, A., Chung, Y., Lee, S.W., Schwartz, N., Haverhals, L., Wang, Z., Bradley, S. D., & Potter, D.(2002). Effects of text and animated graphics in television news stories on viewer attention, arousal, and memory. Psychophysiology, 39(S1), S36.
Book Chapters & Book Translation
Bucy, E., Gantz, W., & Wang, Z. (2007). News and new technology: contending with the 24-hour news cycle. In C. A. Lin & D. Atkin (Eds.), Communication, Technology, and Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gantz, W., Bradley, S.D., & Wang, Z. (2006). Televised NFL games, the family, and domestic violence. In A. A. Raney & J. Bryant (Eds.), Handbook of Sports and Media (pp.365-382). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Zhan, J., Wang, Z., & Wang, T. (2005). A Free and Responsible Press (Translation from English to Chinese). Beijing, China: Renmin University Press.
Technical Reports & Academic Tutorial
Busemeyer, J.R, & Wang, Z. (August, 2008). Quantum Information Processing Theory. A full day tutorial at The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August, Washington, DC.
Lang, A., Wang, Z., & Bradley, S.D. (2004). Motivational Activation Measurement (MAM): Technical Manual and Normative Ratings. Technical Report, Institute for Communication Research, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Busemeyer, J.R, & Wang, Z. (August, 2007). Quantum Information Processing Theory. A full day tutorial at The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August, Nashville,TN.