Mark Hamilton

Professor

Department of Communication

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Education

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1987

About

Mark Hamilton is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut. His research focus is on social influence — which includes marketing, persuasion, language effects, chronemics, and culture. Dr. Hamilton has published in all of the major communication journals except Communication Research. He has over 25 years of experience with private and public sector marketing. His repertoire in product and social marketing includes audience segmentation with cluster analysis, brand positioning with correspondence analysis, driver analysis with causal modeling, and sales volumetrics with mathematical modeling. He has worked with scores of major corporations such as Diageo PLC, Kmart, PepsiCo, and the CocaCola Company as well as many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). His academic research revolves around both message production (e.g., message tailoring, verbal aggression, conflict and symbolic acts of violence) and message evaluation (the effects of language intensity, opinionated language, and obscenity). His interest in message production has taken him into disparate realms, including the structure of personality and belief systems, temporal influence (event timing, chronobiology), and the impact of national culture on marketing content. His interest in message effects has likewise propelled him towards a superfluity of research spheres that include theories of attitude change, charisma and source credibility, celebrity, and health campaigns. On the methodology front, he is known for his award-winning research employing meta-analysis and causal modeling. Along with John Christensen and James Watt, he toils in the Digital Gamesmith Laboratory where he writes statistical software and designs simulations. Professor Hamilton also maintains an affiliation with the Nitade International Program at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Teaching

• COMM 4130 Marketing Communication
• COMM 4100 Advanced Persuasion
• COMM 4230 Organizational Communication
• COMM 4430 International Communication and Conflict
• COMM 5002 Research Methods
• COMM 5003 Advanced Communication Research Methods
• COMM 5100 Persuasion Theory and Research
• COMM 5230 Organizational Communication: Theory and Research
• COMM 6850 Seminar in Marketing Communication Research

Research Affiliations

UConn Digital Gamesmith Laboratory

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