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Is more patient empowerment always better? Examining the moderating role of perceived physician’s argument quality Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jiajing Zhai, Jinghong Nie
Patient empowerment is an important concept in the study of physician–patient communication and is becoming increasingly popular in medical practices. However, previous studies have yielded inconsistent results regarding its effects. To reconcile these findings and establish a robust connection between empowerment and patient adherence, our study blends dyadic power theory with patient empowerment
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Challenges to correcting pluralistic ignorance: false consensus effects, competing information environments, and anticipated social conflict Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Graham N Dixon, Blue Lerner, Samuel Bashian
For many policy issues, people holding the majority opinion often do not act in accordance with their beliefs. While underestimating public opinion appears as a likely cause, correcting this misperception often fails to motivate those in the majority to act. Investigating further, we surveyed a nationally representative sample (N = 1,000) of Republican voters about vaccination. Despite a majority supporting
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Quantitative criticalism for social justice and equity-oriented communication research Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Youllee Kim
An increasing number of communication researchers have noted the potential of quantitative criticalism (QuantCrit) or the use of quantitative approaches to pursue social justice and equity agenda. Nonetheless, how to achieve the goals and ideals of QuantCrit in communication studies still largely remains uncharted terrain. This article offers five concrete suggestions for how researchers can bring
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Individuals’ perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage and its impact on communal orientation, relational load, and ability to flourish Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Tamara D Afifi, Andy J Merolla, Walid A Afifi, Chloe Gonzales, Abdullah Salehuddin, Jade Salmon, Veronica Wilson
This study investigates individuals’ perceptions of reciprocal relationship maintenance in their marriage over time during the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19). Using a Qualtrics Panel, married individuals (N = 3,601) completed online surveys at four time points during the initial 3 months of the pandemic. Both the between- and within-person effects were consistent with the theory of resilience and
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Partisanship supersedes race: effects of discussant race and partisanship on Whites’ willingness to engage in race-specific conversations Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Osei Appiah, William P Eveland, Christina M Henry
White participants in the United States were asked to imagine having a hypothetical conversation about race-specific issues with either a White or Black discussant who was described as either a Republican or Democrat. Participants’ expectations of encountering negative outcomes during the conversation, and their intentions to avoid the conversation, were measured. The black sheep effect posits that
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The CODE^SHIFT model: a data justice framework for collective impact and social transformation Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Srividya Ramasubramanian, Mohan J Dutta
In this article, we present an alternative framework that resists hegemonic social sciences within data-driven communication theorizing through a culture-centered approach (CCA). Building on the CCA in co-creating voice infrastructures at the margins, we argue that data justice requires transforming interpretive data framings, disrupting the hegemonic registers of knowledge production constituted around
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The labor of communicatively coping: toward an Integrative Theory of Communication Work Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Erin E Donovan, Abigail Dalgleish Hazlett
There is extensive evidence that when people are experiencing health stressors, they are also coping with communication stressors. Although the literature tends to loosely classify these experiences as “communication challenges,” we propose a more defined way of theorizing how people encounter and manage communicative demands. To that end, this article introduces an Integrative Theory of Communication
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Second screening and trust in professional and alternative media: the mediating role of media efficacy Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Zicheng Cheng, Yin Yang, Homero Gil de Zúñiga
In the media convergence landscape, consumption of traditional, well-established media is increasingly combined with newer digital and online platforms such as blogs, podcasts, and social media, which has changed the way news users engage with media content. This study examines the relationship between hybrid media use—specifically, second screening—and trust in both professional and alternative media
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Partisan YouTube use and evaluation of knowledge in Korea and the United States: a fresh perspective via the Dunning–Kruger effect Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Hoon Lee, Hyeonwoo Kim, Jiyoung Yeon
This study investigates how partisan YouTube use can paint biased evaluations of one’s own as well as others’ knowledge. Understanding of these relationships is enriched by a fresh theoretical perspective via the Dunning–Kruger effect, suggesting that people, especially those who perform poorly, tend to overestimate their own competence. Using South Korea and the United States as two different contexts
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Relational maintenance among separated Latina/o/x/e immigrant families: exploring the lived experiences of parents and children Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Roselia Mendez Murillo, Jennifer A Kam, Andy J Merolla
Prior relational maintenance research primarily (a) considers only one family member’s perspective, (b) explores introspective communication, and (c) examines romantic relationships among highly resourced white samples in the United States. This study considered low-income, Latina/o/x/e immigrant families’ maintenance before, during, and after migration-related separation, using standpoint theory,
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Discounting constituent attitudes: motivated reasoning, ambiguity, and policymaker perceptions of constituent characteristics Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Daniel E Bergan, Hillary C Shulman, Dustin Carnahan
In experimental work, researchers have found that policymakers discount the opinions of constituents with whom they disagree. We build on these results with a national sample of local policymakers in the United States, exploring whether communicators can prevent policymakers from discounting their opinions by providing evidence of their own knowledge about a topic. We find that policymakers discount
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Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Stefanie Z Demetriades, Nathan Walter, R Lance Holbert
Communication seeks internal coherence and external distinction as its research profile grows and diversifies. The present essay calls for the establishment of scientific principles to guide future communication research and solidify the field’s unique scholarly identity within the marketplace of ideas. An argument is made that the field has achieved the necessary foundations to establish scientific
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The misinformation recognition and response model: an emerging theoretical framework for investigating antecedents to and consequences of misinformation recognition Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Michelle A Amazeen
Although research on misinformation and corrections has recently proliferated, no systematic structure has guided the examination of conditions under which misinformation is most likely to be recognized and the potential ensuing effects of recognition. The Misinformation Recognition and Response Model (MRRM) provides a framework for investigating the antecedents to and consequences of misinformation
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Personalization reactance in online medical consultations: effects of two-sided personalization and health topic sensitivity on reactance Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Yujie Dong, Wu Li, Meng Chen
Personalization strategy in commercial contexts has often been criticized for eliciting individuals’ reactance. Will this happen to physician–patient communication in online medical consultations (OMCs)? Two experiments attempted to probe the direct, indirect, and conditional effects of personalization on reactance in OMC. Specifically, perceived threats to freedom and perceived physician caring were
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Effects of social comparison framing of racial health disparities and behaviors Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jiawei Liu, Jeff Niederdeppe
Messages that feature intergroup comparisons (social comparison frames) regularly communicate the relative prevalence of health problems and preventive behaviors. While prior studies find that comparing disease risks between racial groups are met with resistance from the disadvantaged group, we extended existing research by investigating if behavioral comparisons which show that the higher-risk group
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Trust but verify? A social epistemology framework of knowledge acquisition and verification practices for fictional entertainment Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Anne Bartsch, Marie-Louise Mares, Johanna Schindler, Jessica Kühn, Ina Krack
Fictional entertainment can serve as a vivid and easily comprehensible source of knowledge, but only if audiences are able to tell its kernel of truth apart from fantasy. In this article, we use the lens of social epistemology to develop a theoretical framework of knowledge acquisition and verification practices for fictional entertainment that integrates various extant lines of work on entertainment
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The role of theory in researching and understanding human communication Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Timothy R Levine, David M Markowitz
Communication is a theory-driven discipline, but does it always need to be? This article raises questions related to the role of theory in communication science, with the goal of providing a thoughtful discussion about what theory is, why theory is (or is not) important, the role of exploration in theory development, what constitutes a theoretical contribution, and the current state of theory in the
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Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theory Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 David M Keating
This article proposes a general theory of persuasive message effects based on four sets of arguments. The first set commits to theorizing that focuses on specifying causal order and the explanatory principle driving that order. The second set makes the case that specifying a complex causal order among a series of cognitions is unjustifiable in many cases. The third set contends that many cognitions
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Situated socio-material assemblages: assemmethodology in the making Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Brian L Due
This article proposes the concept of assemmethodology, which combines assemblage theory and ethnomethodology. Relating to the ongoing studies in sociomateriality, this article advances our understanding of the details of social conduct and the consequentiality of materials. By explicating the role of the situation and its processual becoming, which is inherent in ethnomethodology, and by replacing
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Present, empathetic, and persuaded: a meta-analytic comparison of storytelling in high versus low immersive mediated environments Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Zexin Ma, Rong Ma, Meng Chen, Nathan Walter
Immersive narratives—narratives viewed in immersive mediated environments—are a promising tool for increasing empathy and persuasion due to their presumed capacity to place viewers inside a story world. Empirical studies, however, have produced mixed findings. This meta-analysis synthesized findings on the effects of narratives viewed in high (vs. low) immersive environments on empathy and persuasion
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Motivations to use multifunctional public goods in organizations: using agent-based modeling to explore differential uses of enterprise social media Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Jeremy Foote, Jeffrey W Treem, Bart van den Hooff, Marjolijn Honcoop
This work conceptualizes enterprise social media (ESM) as a multifunctional public good that both supports communication that connects users directly and allows users to contribute or access communal information. We show how differing motivations to use an ESM—connective or communal goals—interact with individuals’ perceptions of activity on a platform, and the consequences this has for individual
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Local government engagement practices and Indigenous interventions: Learning to listen to Indigenous voices Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Christine Helen Elers, Mohan Dutta
This article examines the Māori consultation and engagement processes in a development project framed as climate adaptation and carried out by a local council that sought to expel Māori from ancestral land. Drawing on a dialogue between Kaupapa Māori (KM) theory and the culture-centered approach (CCA), land is centered as the basis for everyday meanings of health. We depict the processes of culture-centered
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Deception detection and question effects: testing truth-default theory predictions in South Korea Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Timothy R Levine
Meta-analysis has shown that people are only slightly better than chance at distinguishing truths from lies in deception detection experiments. Truth-default theory (TDT), however, specifies multiple paths to lowering and increasing accuracy. The current experiment (n = 81) tested truth-default theory’s proposition 13 and diagnostic questioning module with a student sample from South Korea. The proposition
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Presidential communication during the pandemic: a longitudinal examination of its relationship with partisan perceptions and behaviors in the United States Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Yue Li, Zheng Wang, Qin Li
Partisanship played a key role in shaping individuals’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The current project applies the extended parallel processing model (EPPM) to examine how the content features of White House press conferences were associated with the partisan gap in perceptions and behavior during the early stage of the pandemic. Using supervised machine learning, Study
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Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users’ weight loss: a computational approach Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Qinghua Yang, Andrew M Ledbetter, Jie Zhuang, Adam S Richards
Despite the common use of social media to discuss health issues, little is known about how features of user-generated content influence users’ health outcomes. To address this gap, we longitudinally studied large-scale conversations on the subreddit r/loseit, an online weight loss community, by computationally analyzing the themes and sentiment of users’ posts and examining their associations with
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The role of audience favorability in processing (un)familiar messages: a heuristic-systematic model perspective Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Jiyeon So, Jiaying Liu
Several mechanisms of processing (un)familiar messages—processing fluency, message fatigue, interest, and counterarguing—are documented but studied independently, preventing a holistic understanding of how we process (un)familiar messages. This research integrates these mechanisms under a coherent theoretical framework based on heuristic-systematic model and identifies which one becomes dominant as
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Trolls without borders: a comparative analysis of six foreign countries’ online propaganda campaigns Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Dror Walter, Yotam Ophir
Despite the existence of multiple propaganda campaigns from around the globe, most scholarly attention has been primarily given to those operated by Russia. This focus on a single country has limited the scope of propaganda research. We offer a systematic comparison of six campaigns, examining the issues they engaged with, and their deployment strategies. Using a computational analysis of more than
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Message fatigue beyond the health message context: a replication and further extension of So et al. (2017) Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Hyunjin Song, Jiyeon So
Repeated exposure to similar messages may be counterproductive, yet the majority of the extant research tends to neglect this possibility. Addressing this issue, So et al. (2017) conceptualized and operationalized the message fatigue construct within the health message context. We replicate their study in a climate change message context and extend their work by proposing and validating a shortened
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Antecedents and consequences of fake news exposure: a two-panel study on how news use and different indicators of fake news exposure affect media trust Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Sangwon Lee, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Kevin Munger
Despite abundant studies on “fake news,” the long-term consequences have been less explored. In this context, this study examines the dynamic relationship between traditional and social news media use, fake news exposure—measured as perceived fake news exposure and exposure to actual fake news stories, and mainstream media trust. We found interesting patterns across two U.S. panel survey studies. First
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Beliefs as causal mediators in the design of communication interventions: exploring semantic and affective priming in parallel encouragement designs Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Jinha Kim, Joseph N Cappella
The design of communication campaigns to alter health behaviors often begins with the identification of behavioral beliefs assumed to be causal antecedents of behavioral intentions. The assumption beliefs are causal derives from various theories of belief and intention/behavior and from statistical patterns of correlation. In cases of high-risk/cost campaigns, presuming causal order should require
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An extension of advice response theory over time Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Lisa M Guntzviller, Manuel D Pulido, Lindsay F Kelpinski, Shana Makos, Déjà D Rollins, Nicole V Zenzola, Sara Babu
We examined advice response theory’s (ART) propositions over time with mixed methods. College students (N = 122) received advice from a close other (predominantly White U.S. friends) and completed surveys preconversation, postconversation, and approximately 12 days postconversation, as well as essays 4 weeks postconversation. ART’s propositions about direct and indirect effects were partially supported:
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End-of-life topic avoidance among gender-diverse young adults: the importance of normalizing gender-affirming end-of-life conversations Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Stephenson Brooks Whitestone, Daniel Linz
This qualitative interview study examines the perceived challenges and obstructions that emerging transgender and gender-diverse adults (TGD, ages 18–30 years) face when considering end-of-life conversations (EOL) with their family members. While not yet normalized in the trans community, gender-affirming EOL conversations are critically important in a population where episodes of postmortem identity
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Difficult conversations concerning identity and difference: diverse approaches and perspectives Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Jordan Soliz, Srividya Ramasubramanian
This essay is an introduction to the special issue on “Difficult Conversations Concerning Identity and Difference.” The essay begins with our argument that inquiries into difficult conversations are important as these interactions are key to addressing social inequities, creating and/or maintaining community and relational solidarity, amplifying voices of marginalized populations and/or diverse experiences
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“City by city:” reclaiming people of color voices through the Narrative Justice Project Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Rachel Grant, Vanessa Wakeman
The Narrative Justice Project (NJP) challenges master narratives and creates more complex understandings by delving into the human-interest aspects of mass communications. For people of color (POC), the mass media is a racialized tool used in the historical context to justify the lack of rights or equality. This study illustrates how counter-stories function as a redefinition of humanity. The NJP training
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La inclusión relacional: examining neoliberal tensions, relational opportunities, and fixed understandings in diversity, equity, and inclusion work in the Global South Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Astrid M Villamil, Pilar Mendoza, Maryluz Hoyos Ensuncho, Juanita Reina Zambrano
This study explored efforts of staff, faculty, and students at a Colombian university to materialize diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) programs in its institutional practices. Using Communicative Constitution of Organization (CCO) as an informing paradigm, this study proposed to understand institutional DEI as interconnected communicative practices of relational ontology. In addition, this study
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Colorblind on the color line: critical ethnography of racial inequity in a human service organization serving a community of single-mother families at the margins Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Savaughn E Williams, Angela N Gist-Mackey, Anna Jewell
This study takes an in-depth critical ethnographic look at a local nonprofit human service organization, Lavender Refuge, that supports marginalized families. This study explored the communication of staff/volunteers and residential clients that facilitate or inhibit the nonprofit’s aims to create an inclusive community culture. Critical race theory and social identity theory were utilized as theoretical
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Difference-managing and difference-reducing community storytelling in urban neighborhoods: a communication infrastructure theory perspective Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Yong-Chan Kim, Euikyung Shin, Yeran Kim, Young-Gil Chae
This study is to understand how urban residents experience and address difference through communicative actions in urban neighborhoods. The first purpose of this study was to test the scales of difference-managing community storytelling (DMCS) and difference-reducing community storytelling (DRCS) as two communicative actions for addressing differences in urban neighborhoods. The second was to identify
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Conceptualizing other-resilience: exploring how hearing parents enact resilience for themselves and their children who use cochlear implants Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Kristina M Scharp, Cimmiaron F Alvarez, Brittan A Barker
After an infant hearing loss (HL) diagnosis, parents face a multitude of stressors as they try to make the best decisions for their children. For many parents with typical hearing, opting for cochlear implantation is part of the decision-making process. Findings from a sample of hearing parents who chose cochlear implantation for their children with HL reveal that they experience (a) five resilience
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Examining difficult conversations and transitional identities through Relational Liminality Theory Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Audra K Nuru
Framed by Relational Liminality Theory (RLT), the present study explores difficult conversations as sites for identity negotiation during times of relational change and challenge. Specifically, this study focuses on the liminal period between the “before” and the “after” of upheaval to understand how familial and romantic partners make sense of relational transitions. Analysis of in-depth, semistructured
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Using enclave groups to discuss workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Rebecca A Kuehl, Molly Krueger Enz, Sara A Mehltretter Drury
Workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion are two facets of a complex public issue that require a deliberative community-based problem-solving approach. This article reports findings from a qualitative analysis of fourteen focus groups (N = 83 participants) held in a rural Midwestern community that centered on community members’ experiences with workplace cultural diversity and community
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Audience–campaign planner interaction in social media communication campaigns: how it influences intended campaign responses in the observing audience Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Jingyuan Shi, Yue (Nancy) Dai
We proposed a dual typology of audiences for social media communication campaigns: the participating audience, who interacts with campaign planners, and the observing audience, who observes those interactions. Situated in a context of promoting seeking counseling for depression, our online experiment (N = 570) demonstrated that the similarity of the observing and participating audiences (high vs. low)
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“They didn’t really have key experiences that they thought they could bring to the table”: Perceptions of white racial absolution during cross-racial intergroup dialogues Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Chaddrick D James-Gallaway, Marigold M Hudock, Corbin Franklin
This article analyzes how White racial absolution, a form of White resistance to interrogating White racial identity through discourse, impedes cross-racial intergroup dialogs (IGDs) and impacts the IGD experience of Students of Color (SOC). Eleven undergraduate IGD students and six undergraduate IGD facilitators participated, and critical race discourse analysis (CRDA) was used for analysis. Findings
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Contesting illness: communicative (dis)enfranchisement in patient–provider conversations about chronic overlapping pain conditions Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Elizabeth A Hintz, Rachel V Tucker
Guided by the theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement (TCD), this study analyzes 738 narratives describing negative (n = 381) and positive (n = 357) patient–provider interactions recounted by 399 female-identifying patients residing in 22 countries who are living with poorly understood chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) such as fibromyalgia, vulvodynia, and endometriosis. Using thematic
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Pornography and religiosity: prediction and process Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Paul J Wright, Robert Tokunaga, Samuel L Perry, Stephen Rains
Sexual behavior and religious practice are fundamental social dynamics of longstanding interest to communication scholars. Drawing insights from the Reinforcing Spirals Model (RSM) and Sexual Script Acquisition, Activation, Application Model (3AM), this study examined whether (a) religiosity operated primarily as a predictor of later pornography consumption, which in turn predicted heightened sexual
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Effects of pro-white identity cues in American political candidate communication Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Daniel S Lane, Afsoon Hansia, Muniba Saleem
American politicians have always harnessed the group nature of politics to build political power. Yet it is unclear whether explicit appeals to dominant group identities (e.g., white identity) can help political leaders win support from dominant group members (e.g., white Americans). Four experimental studies (N = 2,279; two pre-registered) used the identity ownership perspective (Kreiss et al., 2020)
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Why do individuals create posts on organizations’ social media pages? Identifications, functions, and audiences beyond the organizational boundary for social change Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Jennifer Ihm
Previous research has centered on nonprofit organizations’ (NPOs’) roles in developing relationships with the public and leading collective action. However, individuals may also create posts on NPOs’ social media pages to generate relationships with audiences other than the organization, and to self-mobilize connective action to reach their own goals. Based on content analysis of 576 actual posts and
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Do you love your phone more than your child? The consequences of norms and guilt around maternal smartphone use Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Lara N Wolfers, Ruth Wendt, Daniela Becker, Sonja Utz
Previous research mainly linked smartphone use while parenting to adverse consequences. However, smartphones also offer helpful resources for parents, especially in stressful situations. We suggested that negative norms against maternal smartphone use and associated feelings of guilt may inhibit effective smartphone use for coping with stress. In a 1-week experience sampling study with mothers of young
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Stress, relational turbulence, and communal coping during the COVID-19 pandemic Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Hannah E Jones, Jennifer A Theiss, Deborah B Yoon
This study examined how increased stress during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to relational turbulence and undermined dyadic coping. Using longitudinal data, this study also explored how enacting communal coping mitigates stress and conditions of relational turbulence over time. A sample of 151 U.S. dyads (302 individuals) completed online surveys about their relationship once per week for four
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Fact-checking as a deterrent? A conceptual replication of the influence of fact-checking on the sharing of misinformation by political elites Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Siyuan Ma, Daniel Bergan, Suhwoo Ahn, Dustin Carnahan, Nate Gimby, Johnny McGraw, Isabel Virtue
In a field experiment conducted during the 2012 general elections in the U.S., Nyhan and Reifler found that the threat of fact-checking deterred state legislators from making false or misleading statements. The current study presents a conceptual replication and extension of this influential study by utilizing a similar treatment that leverages a recent partnership between local media outlets and fact-checking
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Revisiting the effects of an inoculation treatment on psychological reactance: a conceptual replication and extension with self-report and psychophysiological measures Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Russell B Clayton, Josh Compton, Tobias Reynolds-Tylus, Dominik Neumann, Junho Park
Research published by Richards and Banas and Richards et al. demonstrated that an inoculation treatment given to participants prior to their exposure to a series of freedom-threatening persuasive health messages mitigates audiences’ freedom-threat perceptions, state psychological reactance, and behavioral intentions. We sought to conceptually replicate the studies by Richards and Banas and Richards
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They will hate us for this: effects of media coverage on Islamist terror attacks on Muslims’ perceptions of public opinion, perceived risk of victimization, and behavioral intentions Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Thomas Zerback, Narin Karadas
While research has intensively studied the effects of media coverage of Islamist terror on non-Muslims, our knowledge about how it affects Muslims themselves is still limited. Following Sikorski et al. (2017), we distinguish between undifferentiated and differentiated news on Islamist terror, i.e., news reports that explicitly establish or deny a link between Muslims or Islam and Islamist terror. In
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Is news media sharing an active framing process? Examining whether individual tweets retain news media frames about climate change Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Austin Hubner, Graham Dixon
Social network sites have become a primary tool for consuming and sharing news. Typically, sharing a news media article on social media involves two pieces of information: the news media frame and the individual’s commentary. With framing as an active, iterative process, we examine the extent to which individuals replicate or reframe when sharing news about climate change to Twitter. First, we conducted
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Evaluating the efficacy of demand-side communication interventions on claiming rights: evidence from an action research field experiment in India Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Akshay Milap, Ankur Sarin
Communication-based interventions increasingly characterize attempts to strengthen policy implementation, especially policies targeting disadvantaged populations who despite their eligibility often fail to access potential benefits. However, factors that determine their effectiveness remains an open empirical question. To examine elements of effective communication in the exercising of rights, we designed
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From serial reproduction to serial communication: transmission of the focus of comparison in lay communication about gender inequality Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Maike Braun, Sarah Martiny, Susanne Bruckmüller
We introduce and explore the potential of the serial communication method, a modification of the serial reproduction paradigm in which participants communicate their own thoughts. It affords participants more agency, more closely simulating real communication. We specifically examined the transmission of the focus of comparison in explanations of gender inequality, a consequential form of equivalency
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Examining the longitudinal relationship between visibility and persistence on stress and technology-assisted supplemental work Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Ward van Zoonen, Anu E Sivunen, Jeffrey W Treem
This study examines the longitudinal relationship between two affordances of organizational information and communication technologies (ICTs)—that is, visibility and persistence—and individuals’ subjective stress and technology-assisted supplemental work (TASW). We propose that visibility and persistence associated with organizational ICTs are often more aptly construed as probabilities for action
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That’s so immoral! Investigating the effects of moral violations reported in the form of (in)complete moral dyads in news articles on emotions and memory Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Sophie Bruns, Katharina Knop-Huelss
As journalists are expected to report on events where expectations and rules are transgressed, they often report on moral violations (such as murder, tax evasion, or unjust political decisions). Exposed to journalistic reports on violations of their moral principles, individuals instantly feel that these actions are wrong. According to theories of morality, immorality perceptions are associated with
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Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: a turn-level analysis Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Stephen A Rains, Joseph A Bonito, Bethany R Lutovsky, Katerina Nemcova, Eric Tsetsi, Anjali Ashtaputre, Corey A Pavlich, Chelsie Akers
Mutual influence is central to prominent supportive communication theories but remains understudied. We conduct a turn-level analysis to investigate mutual influence in the unfolding nature of conversations among 334 stranger dyads discussing a personal problem. We examine how the types of messages produced by support seekers influence the immediate response from providers, and how that provider response
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Examining semantic (dis)similarity in news through news organizations’ ideological similarity, similarity in truthfulness, and public engagement on social media: a network approach Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Yue Li, Robert M Bond
The rise of homogenization and polarization in the news may inhibit individuals’ understanding of an issue and the functioning of a democratic society. This study applies a network approach to understanding patterns of semantic similarity and divergence across news coverage. Specifically, we focus on how (a) inter-organizational networks based on media ideology, (b) inter-organizational networks based
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Can’t stop thinking about Star Wars and The Office: antecedents of retrospective imaginative involvement Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Ezgi Ulusoy, Neha Sethi, Joshua Baldwin, Sara M Grady, David R Ewoldsen
Retrospective imaginative involvement (RII) is a concept that encapsulates how audiences reflect back on a narrative’s characters and events after the story has ended. The current study aims to explicate the antecedents of RII in order to provide initial steps toward creating a theory of RII. Through two studies, we tested the role of familiarity, traits (e.g., curiosity), entertainment experiences
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Practical rationality as a determinant of formality in communicative situations: toward a procedure for causal interpretation in qualitative communication research Human Communication Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Nimrod Shavit
This article develops an updated version of formality as an analytical framework in the comparative study of communicative situations, and especially of meetings. The discussion remakes Judith Irvine’s formality framework by adding to it the explanatory principle of practical rationality as used within Weber’s Interpretive Sociology. This conceptual move provides an efficient and accurate means by