- Associate Professor
- Email: jlueck@tamu.edu
- Office: BLTN 209E
- Document: CV
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Biography
Introduction
Dr. Lueck’s research addresses the following topics: evidence-based health promotion and behavior change, cognition and emotion, mental illness and suicide risk/prevention, related co-morbidities (e.g., substance abuse), media effects, and emerging technologies (e.g., eye-tracking).
Bio
Dr. Lueck received her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota in 2016. She joined the Communication Department at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 2016. Her research focuses on novel approaches to health communication interventions targeting people with disordered cognition, using eye-tracking technology and ecological methods (e.g., ecological momentary assessment). Specifically, Dr. Lueck investigates how and under what circumstances cognitive biases influence perceptions and beliefs about the world, the self, and the environment, that create and sustain barriers to health behavior change and explores implications for effectively tailored health communication interventions. To do this, Dr. Lueck examines the lived experience of vulnerable populations (e.g., adolescents; adults affected by depression), prevalent media use in this population (e.g., social media; general news media), to then inform and test effectively tailored mediated health communication interventions, focusing on indicators such as attention, interpretation, memory, and behavior change. She is the recipient of the 2021 TAMU CRISS Grant, the 2020 TAMU COVID-19 Innovation Grant, and the 2019 TAMU T3 grant, and has several grant proposals under review at the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Lueck’s research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Health Communication, Health Communication, Social Science & Medicine, and Psychiatry Research. Dr. Lueck has presented her research at both national and international conferences and her research has been mentioned by various national news networks (e.g., VOX) and health organizations (e.g., CDC). Her research on health campaigns promoting COVID-19 vaccination won the top paper award from the International Communication Association (Health Communication Division) in 2021.
Courses Taught
Research Interests
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- Communication & Media Science
- Health Communication
Selected Publications
- Lueck, J., & Spiers, A. (2020). Which beliefs predict intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19? A mixed-methods reasoned action approach applied to health communication. Journal of Health Communication, 25(10), 790-798.
- Lueck, J., Silva, T., Brannon, G., & Stephenson, M. (2019). Depression’s response to fear tactics: An integration of health promotion principles, eye-tracking technology and clinical tools. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(6), 1178-1186.
- Lueck, J. (2019). What’s the risk in seeking help for depression? Assessing the nature and pleasantness of outcome perceptions among individuals with depressive symptomatology. Health Education and Behavior, 46(3), 463-470.
- Lueck, J. (2019). Should we activate risk perceptions in the context of suicide prevention? Examining fear appeals, help-seeking determinants, and help-seeking sources among university employees who suffer from depression. Prevention Science, 20(6), 884-893.
- Lueck, J. (2018). Respecting the ‘stages’ of depression. Considering depression severity and readiness to seek help. Patient Education and Counseling, 101(7), 1276-1282.