Elise is a media psychology researcher who investigates the emotional and cognitive effects of health communication, persuasive messages, humor messages, and entertainment programming. Her work has been published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Addictive Behaviors, Communication Research, Mass Communication and Society, Sexuality & Culture, Health Marketing Quarterly, and Communication Research Reports and presented at conferences for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT), the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the National Communication Association (NCA), and the National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH).

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Currently, Elise is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School studying the cognitive and emotional responses to tobacco-related messages to help inform effective message design and tobacco policy.