Mary Beth Oliver, the Roy H. Park Distinguished Visiting Professor in the school, is a distinguished professor at Penn State University in the Department of Film/Video & Media Studies and co-director of the Media Effects Research Lab. Her research in media effects focuses on entertainment psychology and on social cognition and the media.

Her recent publications on these topics have appeared such journals as the “Journal of Communication,” “Human Communication Research” and “Communication Research,”  among others. She is former editor of the journal “Media Psychology,” associate editor of the “Journal of Communication and Communication Theory,” and she currently serves on the editorial boards for numerous journals in the field. She is co-editor with Jennings Bryant on “Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research” (3rd ed.) and with Robin Nabi on “The Sage Handbook of Media Processes and Effects.”

In 2006, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research on media and stereotyping of Maori populations in New Zealand.

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