Media Psychologist. Author. Speaker. Researcher. Consultant. Professor.
Jerri Lynn holds degrees in communication, information management, and psychology with an emphasis in media. She is a professor in the media psychology program at Fielding Graduate University, 2015 president of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Media Psychology and Technology, co-creator of fielding’s certificate in brand psychology and audience engagement, serves on the advisory board for UC Irvine’s Internet Marketing Certificate Program and co-author of Mad Men Unzipped.
Her Passion
She integrates her passion for visual communications, technology, and digital environments with research to advance the understanding of media and technologies' positive use and their physical, visual, cognitive, and emotional impact.
Her focus includes augmented and virtual environment design solutions and imagery messaging for positive change. Jerri Lynn is currently working with IEEE for standards in virtual reality and augmented reality.
A Media Psychologist–A Social Scientist Who Applies Expertise in Human Behavior and Neuroscience to Media and Technology
- How media and technology influences how we connect, form relationships, and make meaning of our lives
- Worked with a variety of clients, such as American Psychological Association (APA), Early Years Education in Northern Ireland, EXPLO, Magic Always Happens, International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), Microsoft Skype in the Classroom, IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity, Women in Technology International (WITI), and the US Department of Defense to identify audience motivations, develop data strategies, create positive imagery and narratives, and disrupt misinformation
The Think Tanks
- 2018-2019 ISAT/DARPA working group – cognitive defense: designing for defense – misinformation
- 2017-present screen time: the impact of technology use on early development ages 0-8 years
- 2017-present media initiative for children in collaboration with early years, northern Ireland - embracing difference and strengthening resilience in future peacebuilders: self-regulation toddler module
- 2017-present Georgia tech/fielding graduate university research group - trust in information sources: the role of personality, media, choice, and digital native/digital immigrant membership
- 2016-2017 U.S. Department of Defense Global Operations – using narrative psychology to counter terrorist messaging
