Emily K. McKinley

PhD Candidate, Communication and Computational Social Science


Curriculum vitae


Department of Communication

University of California, Davis



Publications


Refereed Journal Articles

McKinley, E., Markowitz, D. M., Zhu, R., & Van Der Heide, B. (2025). Evaluating AI Use and its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data,  Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715251379987
Oh Y., Rasul M., McKinley E., Calabrese C. (2025) From Digital Traces to Public Vaccination Behaviors: Leveraging Large Language Models for Big Data Classification, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 8, 1602984. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1602984
Liao W., Lee Y., Xue H., McKinley E. (forthcoming) Relational Introspections with Artificial Intelligence: Asymmetries of Self and Machine Agency and Communion, Relational Schemas, and Trust, Human Communication Research.

Manuscripts Under Review

McKinley E., Shen C., Sagae, K., Zhang J. Characteristics and Dynamics of Social Media Vaccination Disclosures Through the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout. (revise & resubmit, Journal of Health Communication
McKinley E., Qian S., Rasul M. “Bill Gates Chip Activated!”: Comparing AI and Machine Learning Models in Detecting Humor-Laden Vaccine Misinformation. (under review, Journal of Computational Social Science)
Oh Y., Rasul M., Lim J., Calabrese C., McKinley E., Stevens H., Turner M., Lapinski M., Peng T. Targeting anger for COVID-19 prevention: The motivating role of anger on media use and vaccination intention (revise & resubmit, PLoS)

Manuscripts In Progress 

McKinley E., Alhumaidy A., Zhang J. (working title) AI as Human?: Using Large Language Models to Synthesize Human Responses in Persuasion Contexts (manuscript in preparation) 
McKinley E., Calabrese C., Kim D., Zhang J. (working title) Understanding HPV Vaccination Hesitancy: A Global Taxonomy of Parental Beliefs Using AI-Enhanced Analysis.  (manuscript in preparation) 
Oh, Y. J., Donohue, W., McKinley, E., Molina, M., & Peng, W. (working title) Interpersonal Persuasion: The Language of Relational Development and its Role in Relational Outcome (manuscript in preparation) 

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data


Emily McKinley, David M Markowitz, Rui Zhu, Brandon Van Der Heide

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 140 Huguenot Street, 3rd Floor New~…, 2025


From digital traces to public vaccination behaviors: leveraging large language models for big data classification


Yoo Jung Oh, Muhammad Ehab Rasul, Emily McKinley, Christopher Calabrese

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 8, Frontiers, 2025, p. 1602984

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