Matthew Grizzard

@mattgrizz.bsky.social

"Scarlet & Gray" Associate Professor in the School of Communication at OSU. I study narratives, characters, and moral judgment processes as they relate to the consumption of media. My opinions are my own.

Finally took the step get the show on Instagram, and it lasted a week. Yeesh. Is there no way to see what rule I so egregiously violated in one week of posting a few things to an official podcast page?

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Quite proud of being a part of this research that replicated/extended a previous study with a pre-registered design and df = 98 path model.

Rebecca Frazer@beccafraz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excited to share our latest work in Acta Psychologica (with @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse) on the influence of character depth on affective disposition processes (ADT) across five unfolding acts of a story (pre-registered). Results show... (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

This week on Opinion Science, I shared a preview of another podcast I think you'd enjoy: Mind Games. It traces the wild story behind a so-called "persuasion technology" built on hypnosis that's been at the center of all kinds of questionable movements. opinionscipod.buzzsprout.com/981667/episo...

Introducing Mind Games - Opinion Science

I'm excited to share a preview of a new podcast I think you’d enjoy: Mind Games.What if you could hypnotize yourself into a better you? Or.... secretly hypnotize others into giving you anything you wa...

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Excited to present our project “Character Profiles: Broadening Theoretical Conceptualizations of Character Schemas” at #NCA2025! This work examines character and person perception processes of distinct character types (e.g., pirates, cowboys, mad scientists). Thurs Nov 20 - 2:30PM - Maple 05

A presentation title slide with the heading “Character Profiles: Broadening Theoretical Conceptualizations of Character Schemas” in large red text. Below, in black text, it reads “Matthew Grizzard, Scarlet and Gray Associate Professor.” Two columns list collaborators: Lucy Brown, Rebecca Frazer (with a small University of Florida UF logo), Charles K. Monge (with a small Texas Tech University double-T logo), and Sebastian Lubert on the left; Violet Musser, Samantha Flanagan, and C. Joseph Francemone on the right. At the bottom left is The Ohio State University logo with the university name.