Josh Compton

|Professor
Academic Appointments
  • Professor of Speech

  • Chair, Speech at Dartmouth Steering Committee

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I've been studying inoculation as a way to confer resistance to influence for more than 20 years. Persuasion inoculation is modeled after medical inoculation: a weakened form of a challenge motivates resistance to stronger challenges encountered later. Most of my work of late focuses on the theory itself—how it works, why it works, and whether it might work better. My applied work is in mis- and disinformation, science communication, health communication, sport, and other areas. 

Contact

6-9842
37 Dewey Fld Rd, Room 228
HB 6250

Department(s)

Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

Education

Ph.D. University of Oklahoma

Selected Publications

  • Compton, J. (2024). Inoculation theory. Review of Communication, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2024.2370373 

  • Compton, J. (2024). Image repair, image prepare, and It: Inoculating against horror portrayals of professions. PRism, 19(1), 1-12. https://www.prismjournal.org/v19-no1.html 

  • Capewell, G., Maertens, R., Remshard, M., van der Linden, S., Compton, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Roozenbeek, J. (2024). Misinformation interventions decay rapidly without an immediate posttest. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13049 

  • Clayton, R. B., Compton, J., Reynolds-Tylus, T., Neumann, D., & Park, J. (2023). Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: A conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures. Human Communication Research, 49(1), 104-111. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqac026

     

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Selected Presentations