About

Benjamin K. Johnson (PhD, The Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor of Advertising at the University of Florida. His research is focused on why and how people select and share messages in new media settings, especially as it relates to psychological processes such as impression management, social comparison, and self-regulation. He is an editor of Media Psychology and is an author of over 45 peer-reviewed publications in high-profile communication journals. Most recently, Johnson became the Interim Director of UF’s STEM Translational Communication Center, an interdisciplinary research center that focuses on making complex science and health information as accessible and useful as possible to audiences.