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Jennifer Aubrey

Dr. Jennifer Stevens Aubrey's research focuses on the media's effects on emotional, mental, and physical health in young people. Her current research examines the effects of sexual objectification in the media on emerging adults' self-consciousness about their bodies. Her other research has looked at the effects of gender stereotypes and counter-stereotypes in elementary children's favorite programming, the portrayal of sexual consequences in teen programming, and the impact of television exposure on emerging adults' sexual expectations. She also has examined representations of sexual consequences on teen programming. Her research has been published in Communication Research, Media Psychology, and Journal of Communication.

The quality of her scholarship has been recognized by a number of awards and grants to support her research. At MU, she has been granted a Summer Research Fellowship and Richard Wallace Alumni Association grant. While at Michigan, Jennifer received the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's prestigious Graduate Student Research Award, the University of Michigan Alumnae Club Scholarship for graduate student leadership and potential, and the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School's One-Term Dissertation Writing Fellowship, among other awards. Additionally, she has been an invited speaker for the Medical Institute for Sexual Health.

Frequently Taught Courses
Comm 2100 - Media Communication in Society
Comm 3636 - Contemporary Issues in Mass Communication
Comm 8120 - Quantitative Research Methods
Comm 8510 - Mass Communication Theory

Research Interests
Mass communication processes and effects, especially media effects on children and adolescents The impact of media exposure on body image and the sexual self-concept

Selected Publications
Aubrey, J. S., & Taylor, L. D. (in press). The role of lad magazines in priming men's chronic and temporary appearance-related schemata: An investigation of longitudinal and experimental findings. Human Communication Research.

Aubrey, J. S., Click, M. A., Dougherty, D. S., Fine, M. A., Kramer, M. W., Meisenbach, R. J., Olson, L. N., & Smythe, M-J. (2008). "We Do Babies!": The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of pregnancy and parenting in the academy. Women's Studies in Communication, 31, 186-195.

Aubrey, J. S. (2007). Does television exposure influence college women's sexual self-concept? Media Psychology, 10, 157-181.

Aubrey, J. S. (2007). The impact of sexually objectifying media on negative body emotions and sexual self-perceptions: Investigating the mediating role of body self-consciousness. Mass Communication & Society, 10, 1-23.

Aubrey, J. S. (2006). Exposure to sexually objectifying media and body self-perceptions among college women: Examining the selective exposure hypothesis and the role of moderating variables. Sex Roles, 55, 159-172.

Aubrey, J. S. (2006). Effects of sexually objectifying media on self-objectification and body surveillance in undergraduates: Results of a 2-year panel study. Journal of Communication, 56, 366-386.

Jennifer Aubrey

Assistant Professor

education: PhD, University of Michigan (2004)
email: aubreyj@missouri.edu
office: 136 Heinkel Bldg.
phone: 573-882-0739
focus area: Mass Communication