Publications

Past Publications

2023

2024

2025

2026

Lee, J.-Y., Jung, I., & Hwang, J. (2026). From truth-oriented to false-oriented judgments: How consecutive false or true information exposure shapes veracity

judgments on social media. Science Communication.

*This work was supported by the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government

(MSIT) (RS-2024-00339271).

Lee, J.-Y., Hwang, W., & Park, S. (2026). The effects of social presence of dementia-prevention chatbot on isolation and interpersonal resilience among older adults living alone: Evidence on three-wave experiment. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

*This paper was supported by SKKU Academic Research Support Program (Samsung Research Fund), Sungkyunkwan University, 2024.

Ma, Z., Lee, J., & Suk, J. (2026). Beyond the Post: Effects of Vividness Dominance on Attention and Recall of Visual Misinformation on Social Media. Computers in Human Behavior, 109058.

*This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (RS-2024-00339271).

2025

Miaohong H*., Mikkilineni, S*., Lee, J.-Y. †., & Duboise, M. (2025). The effects of augmented

reality on prosocial behavior intentions in the disaster news context: The mediating role

of physical presence and empathy. New Media & Society, 27(9), 5301-5323.

*This work was supported by the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government

(MSIT) (RS-2024-00339271).

Lee, J.-Y., & Suk, J. (2025). Navigating the complexity of multimodal misinformation:

Developing the Multimodal Misinformation Processing Model (MMPM) for visual-text

misinformation dynamics. Communication Theory, 35(4), 238-249.

*This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT)

(RS-2024-00339271).

Lee, J.-Y., Dobmeier, C., Heo, M., & Woo, S. S. (2025). Self-disclosure of mental health via

deepfakes: Testing the effects of self-deepfakes on affective resistance and intentions to

seek mental health support. Health Communication.

*This work was supported by the

AI Convergence Research Fund, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024, and a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant, funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (RS-2024-00339271).

Lee, J.-Y., & Hameleers, M. (2025) Effects of health-related deepfakes on misperceptions:

Moderating effects of issue relevance and accuracy motivation. Media Psychology, 28(5),

599-628.

*This work was supported

by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean

government (MSIT) (RS-2024-00339271).

Mikkilineni, S. D., & Lee, J.-Y. † (2025). Immersive falsehood: The impact of political

orientation, spatial presence, and enjoyment on deepfake credibility in immersive

media. Behavior & Information Technology.

*This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2021S1A5C2A02088387).

Lee, J.-Y., Lee, J., Ahn, S. J., & Walter, N. (2025). Beyond the Screen: A Meta-Analysis of How

Tracking Levels, Age, and Issue Relevance Shape the Effectiveness of Immersive Media

in Health Communication. Media Psychology.

*This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2021S1A5C2A02088387).

Lee, J.-Y., & Seals, A. (2025). Capturing invisible health threats through augmented realitybased

public health messaging: Focusing on perceived realism, issue involvement, and

message attitudes. Behaviour & Information Technology, 44(11), 2620-2636.

*This work was supported by the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government

(MSIT) (RS-2024-00339271).

Lee, J.-Y., & John, K., (2025). Detecting deepfakes through emotion?: Facial expression and

emotional contagion as dual indicators of deepfake credibility. Applied Cognitive

Psychology, 39(6), e70141.

*This work was

supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the

Korean government (MSIT) (RS-2024-00339271).

Lee, J.-Y., Wang, O., & Britt, R. K. (2025). Impact of algorithm-driven comments on corrective

information among young adults: focusing on emotional tone of comments and

misinformation credibility. Online Information Review, 49(3), 481-496.

*This work was supported by the National

Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT)

(RS-2024-00339271).

Xu, Z., Kim, S., & Lee, J.-Y. † (2025). Virtual firearms, real-world views How VR shooter games

and gun controllers affect gun attitudes and policy support. International Journal of

Human–Computer Interaction.

*This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2021S1A5C2A02088387).

2024

Dai, Y., Lee, J.-Y†., Kim, J. W. (2024). AI vs. human voices: How communicator and narrative

format influence the effectiveness of debunking messages. International Journal of

Human-Computer Interaction, 40(24), 8735-8749.

Lee, J.-Y., & Kang, D. (2024). The interplay of virtual reality and narrative story in disaster

journalism through empathy, transportation, and identification. Telematics &

Informatics, 89, 102121.

Choi, S., Hites, L., Bolland, A.C., Lee, J.-Y., Payne-Foster, P., & Bissell, K. (2024). Telehealth

uptake among middle-aged and older Americans during COVID-19: chronic conditions, social media communication, and race/ethnicity. Aging & Mental Health, 28(1), 160-168.

Choi, J., Lee, J.-Y., † & Oh, H. J. (2024). Curbing the negative impact of misperceptions during

the COVID-19 pandemic: The effects of news sharing and network expertise on prosocial

behavior. International Journal of Communication.

Lee, J.-Y., & Bissell, K. (2024). Correcting vaccine misinformation on social media: The

inadvertent effects of repeating misinformation within such corrections on COVID-19

vaccine misperceptions. Current Psychology, 43(26), 22754-22766.

Lee, J.-Y., Walter, N., Hayes, J., & Golan, G. (2024). Do influencers influence?: A meta-analytic

comparisons of celebrities and social media influencers effects. Social Media + Society,

10(3), 20563051241269269.

*This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2021S1A5C2A02088387).

Lee, J.-Y., & Choi, J. (2024). Creating vicious information cycle: Trust, exposure, and

misperception in online and offline information dynamics during health crises. Online

Information Review, 48(6), 1177-1196.

2023

Lee, J.-Y., Kang, D.-Y., & Kim, J. (2023). The auxiliary role of virtual reality in enhancing the

effects of disaster news on empathy and fear: The mediating role of presence.

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 26(4), 273-278

Lee, J.-Y., & Bissell, K. (2023). User- vs. machine agency-based misinformation

interventions: The effects of commenting and AI fact-checking labeling on COVID-19

vaccination attitudes. New Media & Society, 26(12), 6817-6837.

Lee, J.-Y., Kim, Y., & Zhu, X. (2023). Liked and shared tweets during the COVID-19 pandemic:

An examination of intrinsic message features, misinformation, and corrective information on information diffusion. Behavior & Information Technology, 43(8), 1596-

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Lee, J.-Y., Hameleers, M., & Shin, S. Y. (2023). The emotional effects of multimodal

disinformation: How multimodality, issue relevance, and anxiety affect misperceptions

about the flu vaccine. New Media & Society, 26(12), 6838-6860.

Kim, J. W., Lee, J.-Y., & Dai, Y. (2023). Misinformation and the paradox of trust during the

Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S.: Pathways to risk perception and compliance behaviors.

Journal of Risk Research, 26(5), 469-484.

Lee, J.-Y., & Britt, B. C. (2024). Factbait: Emotionality of fact-checking tweets and users’ engagement during the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Digital Journalism, 12(10), 1523-1547.

Lee, J.-Y., Britt, B. C., & Kanthawala, S. (2023). Taking the lead in misinformation-related

conversations in social media networks during a mass shooting crisis. Internet Research,

33(2), 638-663.

Lee, J.-Y., Choi, J., & Britt, R. K. (2023). Social media as risk-attenuation and misinformation-amplification

station: How social media interaction affects misperceptions about COVID-19. Health Communication, 38(6), 1232-1242.

Lee, J.-Y., Kalny, C., Demetriades, S., & Walter, N. (2023). Angry content for angry people:

How anger appeals facilitate health misinformation recall on social media. Media

Psychology, 27(5), 639-665.

Lee, J.-Y., Kim, J. W., & Lee, H. Y. (2023). Unlocking conspiracy belief systems: How factchecking

label on Twitter counters conspiratorial MMR vaccine misinformation. Health

Communication.

Britt, R. K., Britt, B. C., Panek, E., & Lee, J.-Y. (2023). Communication expressed on the

COVID-19 subreddit in the midst of a global pandemic. Health Communication, 38(6),

1232-1242.

Lee, J.-Y., Kang, D., Lee, H. Y., & Kim, J. W. (2023). The effects of authoritative source cue and argument strength of correction tweets on MMR vaccine-related misinformation

credibility. Health Education Journal, 82(8), 935-951.