Claude Miller

• COMM 3253 - Persuasion Principles
  
• COMM 3283 - Communication and Emotion

Dr. Miller's work investigates human affective responses to influences messages in various contexts by applying emotion, motivation, and social influence theories, particularly to mass mediated message designs targeting adolescent, elderly, and minority populations. Principle research areas include the effects of psychological reactance and the restoration of freedom on the inoculation process, and on health promotion and risk prevention messages; the effects of regulatory focus and subliminally induced mortality salience on social influence processes; and the application of vested interest theory to crisis and disaster-related communication. 

Professor Miller's work appears in Communication Monographs, Disasters, Health Communication, Human Communication Research, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social Cognition, The Electronic Journal of Communication, The Global Studies Journal, and The Journal of Communication, as well as in book chapters on communication and terrorism, psychological reactance and social influence, terror management theory and communication, and on the use of multimedia tools to test health promotion and prevention messages. He is a past chair of the Communication and Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association (NCA), is a recipient of the 2016 Kinney-Sugg Outstanding Professor Award from the OU College of Arts & Sciences, and NCA’s 2001 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Miller, C. H. (in press). How factionalism and conflicting worldviews threaten classical liberalism and democracy: A terror management theory perspective. In M. J. O’Hair & Woods, P. (Eds.), Communication and education: Promoting peace and democracy in times of crisis and conflict. Wiley Blackwell.

Sun, J., & Miller, C. (in press). The influence of avoidant attachment style on phubbing: The mediating roles of smartphone attachment and self-regulation. Journal of Human Behavior & Emerging Technologies.

Sun, J., & Miller, C. (2023). Insecure attachment styles and phubbing: The mediating role of problematic smartphone use. Journal of Human Behavior & Emerging Technologies, https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4331787

Kim, N, Leshner, G. M., & Miller C. H. (2022). Native Americans’ responses to obesity attributions and message sources in an obesity prevention campaign. Journal of Health Communication, published online, https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2153289

Ma, H., & Miller, C. H. (2022). “I felt completely turned off by the message”: The effects of controlling language, fear, and disgust appeals on responses to COVID-19 vaccination messages. Journal of Health Communication, 27(6): 427-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2119311  

Ma, H. & Miller, C. H. (2022). Threat type moderates agency assignment: A partial matching effect. Health Communication. Published online. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2065746.

Miller, C. H., & Ma, H. (2021). How existential anxiety shapes communication in coping with the coronavirus pandemic: A terror management theory perspective. In H. D. O’Hair and M. J. O’Hair (Eds.), Communication Science in Times of Crisis. Wiley. (pp. 54-80).

Ma, H. & Miller, C. H. (2021). The effects of agency assignment and reference point on responses to COVID-19 messages, Health Communication, 36(1), 59-73, https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1848066.

Ma, H., Miller, C., & Wong, N. (2020). Don’t let the tornado get you!: The effects of agency assignment and self-construal on responses to tornado preparedness messages. Health Communication, 36(6), 703-713, https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1712038

Ma, H., & Miller, C. H. (2020). Trapped in a double bind: Chinese overseas student anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Communication.

Miller, C. H., & Massey, Z. B. (2020). Terror management theory perspectives on interpersonal and social influence. In H. D. O’Hair & M. J. O’Hair (Eds.), Handbook of applied communication research. NY: Wiley

Miller, C. H., Massey, Z. B., & Ma, H. (2020). Psychological reactance and persuasive message design. In H. D. O’Hair & M. J. O’Hair (Eds.), Handbook of applied communication research. NY: Wiley

Miller, C. H., Dunbar, N. E., Jensen, M. L., Massey, Z., Lee, Y-. H., Nicholls, S. B., Anderson, C., Adams, A. S., Elizondo Cecena, F. J., Thompson, W., & Wilson, S. N. (2019). Training law enforcement officers to identify reliable deception cues with an interactive digital game. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 9, (3), 1-23.

Miller, C. H., & Massey, Z. B. (2019). Meaning-making, communication, and terror management processes. In C. Routledge & M. Vess (Eds.), Handbook of terror management Theory. San Diego: Elsevier.

Adame, B., & Miller, C. H. (2018). Risk perception and earthquake preparedness motivation: Predicting responses to a Cascadia Subduction Zone catastrophic event. In V. Fletcher & J. Lovejoy (Eds.), The really big one: Risk, health, and environmental communication. New York: Rowman & Littlefield (pp. 49-86).

Dunbar, N. E., Miller, C., Lee, Y-. H., Jensen, M. L., Anderson, C., Adams, A. S., Elizondo Cecena, F. J., Thompson, W., Massey, Z., Nicholls, S. B., Ralston, R., Donovan, J., Mathews, E., Roper, B., & Wilson, S. (2018). Reliable deception cues training in an interactive video game. Computers in Human Behavior, 85, 74-85.

Massey, Z. & Miller, C. H. (2018). Case studies on interethnic conflict: A theoretical integration. International Journal of International Relations.

Bessarabova, E., & Miller, C. H., Russell, J. (2017). A further exploration of the effects of restoration postscripts on reactance, Western Journal of Communication, 81, 385-403.

Miller, C. H., & Cortes Quantip, R. J. (2017). Anger in health and risk messaging. In R. Perrott (Ed.) Encyclopedia of health and risk message design and processing, New York: Oxford University Press (pp. 117-128).

Miller, C. H., (2016). Hedonic relevance and outcome relevant involvement. In D. K. Kim & J. Dearing (Eds.) Health Communication Measures. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 99-106.

Miller, C. H., (2016). Sensation seeking scales for adolescents and emerging adults. In D. K. Kim & J. Dearing (Eds.) Health Communication Measures. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 213-222.

Miller, C. H., & Adame, B.J. (2016). Scales for measuring the dimensions of vested interest. In D. K. Kim & J. Dearing (Eds.) Health Communication Measures. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 265-278

Mason, A.M. & Miller, C.H. (2016). The ability of inoculation to confer resistance to potentially deceptive health-nutrition related advertising claims. Health Education Journal. 75(2), 144–157

Miller, C. H., (2015). Persuasion and psychological reactance: The effects of explicit, high-controlling language. In R. Shulze & H. Pishwa (Eds), The exercise of power in communication: Devices, reception and reaction. London: Palgrave McMillan. pp 269-286.

Adame, B.J. & Miller, C.H. (2015) Vested interest & disaster preparedness: Strategic campaign message design. Health Communication, 30, 271–281.

Averbeck, J.M., & Miller, C. H. (2014). Expanding language expectancy theory: The suasory effects of lexical complexity and syntactic complexity on effective message design. Communication Studies, 65, 72-95.

Miller, C. H., Ivanov, B, Compton, J., Averbeck, J. Robertson, K.J., Sims, J.D., Parker, K. A., & Parker, J.L. (2013). Boosting the potency of resistance: Combining the motivational forces of inoculation and psychological reactance. Human Communication Research, 39, 127-155.