Yidi Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She studies with a focus on health and environmental communication. She studies three interconnected lines of research: 1) identifying persuasive message features that produce intended or counterproductive effects; 2) theorizing how sociocultural factors shape health communication; 3) advancing methodological approaches in communication research. She has published in leading journals, including Health Communication, Environmental Communication, Risk Analysis, and the Journal of Media Psychology. She has received the Top Student Paper and the Graduate Student Mentorship Award. As lab manager, Yidi has played a central role in multiple federally funded projects (NIH K01, R01, R21), contributing to both scientific advancement and the mentorship of emerging scholars.
Outside of academia, she is an avid latte enthusiast and enjoys starting her mornings with coffee art and drawing as a way to recharge and spark creativity.
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