Freddie J. Jennings Data-verified

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Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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14 h-index 39 pubs 596 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Freddie J. Jennings studies the influence of communication strategies on public perception and behavior. His research investigates how different approaches, such as narrative versus factual presentations, can impact attitudes towards health-related topics, including vaccine advocacy. Jennings also examines the role of social identity and partisan cues in shaping opinions, particularly in the context of political campaigns and candidate branding. Additionally, his work explores how celebrity endorsements on social media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy theories and how these platforms can influence information seeking and opinion articulation among adolescents and adults. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 14 and 577 total citations across 35 publications. Jennings has recently been active, with publications extending to 2025.

Metrics

  • h-index: 14
  • Publications: 39
  • Citations: 596

Selected Publications

  • The Depolarizing Effect of AI Chatbots: Effects of Interactive News on Belief Perseverance and Information Seeking (2025)
  • Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Testing Partisan Elaborative Responses to Political Campaign Image Repair Strategies (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Narrative or Facts: Two Paths to Vaccine Advocacy (2024)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • From Fringe to Mainstream: How Celebrity Endorsement on Social Media Contributes to the Spread of Conspiracy Theories (2024)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Visual overload: The influence of broadcast social media visuals on televised debate viewing outcomes (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Enhancing Visual Learning with Keyword Captioned Video (2022)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics (2022)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Presidential debate learning as a gateway to opinion articulation, communication intentions, and information seeking (2021)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Closing the Knowledge Gap: How Issue Priming Before Presidential Debate Viewing Encourages Learning and Opinion Articulation (2021)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex

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