Associate Professor UC Davis
Richard Huskey (PhD, University of California Santa Barbara) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of California Davis. Dr. Huskey is the principal investigator in the Cognitive Communication Science Lab, a researcher in the Computational Communication Research Lab, an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Mind and Brain, and an affiliated faculty member in the Designated Emphasis in Computational Social Science. He is the former Chair of the International Communication Association Communication Science and Biology interest group, and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Communication. He studies motivational influences on attitudes and behavior. He researches these questions using a variety of methodological techniques including: neuroimaging, computational modeling, and lab-based experimentation.