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Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Academia: Modeling the Roles of Perceived Contextual Norms and Motivation to Collaborate

In this manuscript, we provide a step toward understanding how interdisciplinary collaborations form within academic contexts. Specifically, we propose a model in which the effect of organizational norms on collaborative outcomes are mediated by departmental norms and motivation, sequentially. 

Targeting COVID-19 vaccine-hesitancy in college students: An audience-centered approach

Yanmengqian Zhou, Ruobing Li & Lijiang Shen

 

Persuasive Messages, Social Norms, and Reactance: A Study of Masking Behavior during a COVID-19 Campus Health Campaign

James Price Dillard, Xi Tian, Shannon M. Cruz, Rachel A. Smith & Lijiang Shen

The Role of Fatigue in a Campus COVID-19 Safety Behaviors Campaign

Lijiang Shen, James Price Dillard, Xi Tian, Shannon Cruz, & Rachel A. Smith

Media Contributions to a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Collective Identity? A Tale of Three Cities

Zheng Cui, James Price Dillard, Juliet Pinto, Andrew High, J. J. De La Cruz, Stephen Mainzer, Charles Andrew Cole

Persuasive Messages, Social Norms, and Reactance: A Study of Masking Behavior during a COVID-19 Campus Health Campaign

James Price Dillard, Xi Tian, Shannon M. Cruz, Rachel A. Smith & Lijiang Shen