Asheley R. Landrum is an associate professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Senior Global Futures Scientist Arizona State University. Her research investigates how values and worldviews influence people's selection and processing of information and how these phenomena develop from childhood into adulthood.
Asheley is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and she is serving on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's consensus panel "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science." Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust. Asheley earned her PhD in Psychological Sciences (University of Texas -- Dallas) and completed two postdoctoral fellowships. One with the University of Louisville and one as a Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. |
Areas of Expertise:
Children & (Science) Media; Confirmation Bias; Conspiracy Theorizing; Identity; Media Literacy; Media Psychology; Open Science; Political Socialization; Public Understanding of Science; Science Curiosity; Science and Health Misinformation; Science of Science Communication; Views and Values |