Contact Information
702 South Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
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Biography
Jia is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines how communication in interpersonal relationships facilitates mental and physical well-being. She studies the interplay between personal identity, relational contexts, and message features, and their collective impact on message comprehension, information processing, and behavioral outcomes.
Research Interests
Interpersonal Communication, Health Communication, Quantitative Methods
Education
B.A., Communication and Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
CMN101: Public Speaking
CMN102: Introduction to Communication
CMN230: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
Recent Publications
Liao, D., Yan, J., & Wilson, S. R. (2023). How does physician (non)accommodation affect patient behavioral intention? Using a web-based experiment to examine indirect effects of language type on behavioral intention through goal inferences and source appraisals. Journal of Health Communication, 28(9), 585–594. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2023.2237435