{"title":"When Wearing a Mask Is (Not) the Norm: Political Partisanship and Persuasion in the Context of COVID-19","authors":"Zane A. Dayton, Marko Dragojevic","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2022.2081710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2022.2081710","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the effects of source partisanship and credentials on persuasion. Democrats and Republicans (N = 206) read a policy statement advocating for a national mask mandate, ostensibly written by either a doctor or layperson, associated either with the Democratic or Republican party. Participants’ perceptions of the source and receptivity to the message aligned with their political party’s normative position on the issue: Democrats rated the source as more competent and trustworthy, engaged in less counterarguing, and supported the policy more than Republicans. Although the doctor was trusted more than the layperson and Republicans (but not Democrats) attributed more trust and competence to an ingroup than an outgroup source, source characteristics had no effect on message receptivity.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44124645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alan K. Goodboy, S. Myers, Zachary W. Goldman, Dana Borzea
{"title":"Self-Determination in Marriage: Actor and Partner Effects of Spousal Autonomy on Relationship Maintenance Behaviors","authors":"Alan K. Goodboy, S. Myers, Zachary W. Goldman, Dana Borzea","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2022.2058039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2022.2058039","url":null,"abstract":"Guided by self-determination theory, this study examined the dyadic effects of marital autonomy on relationship maintenance behaviors. Heterosexual married couples (N = 324 dyads) completed questionnaires assessing their need fulfillment of autonomy in marriage along with their enactment of relationship maintenance behaviors. Using multilevel modeling, actor-partner interdependence models were estimated to determine dyadic effects for husbands’ and wives’ autonomy on their own and their partners’ use of positivity, openness, assurances, social networks, and shared tasks. Parameter estimates revealed that husbands’ and wives’ autonomy produced equivalent positive actor and partner effects for the positivity, assurances, social networks, and shared tasks maintenance behaviors, and a positive actor effect for the openness maintenance behavior. These dyadic findings support the idea of mutuality of autonomy support in marriage.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"148 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45125291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Corporate Social Responsibility of Fortune 500 Companies to Black Lives Matter: Strategic Responses on Instagram","authors":"R. Purtell, Katie K. Kang","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2022.2040559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2022.2040559","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations have a responsibility to remain accountable to their stakeholders, and thus must have some normative, corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication. The murder of George Floyd elicited an unprecedented response on social media by global corporations. The current study examined the responses by Fortune 500 companies on the unique platform of Instagram to this event and the larger social movement, Black Lives Matter (BLM). Through a comprehensive analysis of these responses, the current study found that the Fortune 500 companies that did respond on Instagram (n = 166, 33.2%) incorporated messages that reflected six motivations for CSR communication (i.e., risk management, organizational functioning, market positioning, civic positioning, moral positioning, and social reform).","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"120 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42459443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inoculation & Greenwashing: Defending Against Misleading Sustainability Messaging","authors":"James Bingaman, Gilbert Kipkoech, J. P. Crowley","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2022.2048877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2022.2048877","url":null,"abstract":"This study sought to investigate whether an inoculation message could influence attitudes and purchase intentions toward sustainability apparel and footwear that some have claimed use ambiguous and misleading environmental claims. Participants (N = 156) were assigned to either an experimental condition in which they received an inoculation message or a control condition where they received a non-threat-inducing message. The results of the experiment indicated that participants in the inoculation condition were more likely than those in the control condition to both resist attitude change and buy sustainable products. These findings provide initial support for the effectiveness of inoculation in “vaccinating” against greenwashing information.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"135 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43709040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neha Sethi, Sara M. Grady, Ezgi Ulusoy, Joshua Baldwin, D. Ewoldsen
{"title":"What Do We Do with Narratives after the Fact? Exploring Dimensions of Retrospective Imaginative Involvement","authors":"Neha Sethi, Sara M. Grady, Ezgi Ulusoy, Joshua Baldwin, D. Ewoldsen","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2022.2040558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2022.2040558","url":null,"abstract":"Retrospective imaginative involvement (RII) describes people’s asynchronous cognitive involvement with a narrative. Accordingly, RII focuses on what people do with narratives (and how they think about them) after the original story has ended. RII is conceptualized in keeping with the model of narrative comprehension and engagement and the theory of expanding boundaries of the self. The current paper explores the implications of these theories for RII by looking at RII in relation to characters, events, universe, and backstory. The results demonstrate that RII is a multifaceted construct that can be applied to numerous narrative elements.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"106 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43299053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Identify or Not to Identify? That…Depends on the Context: Testing a Model of Receiver Responses to Anonymous Communication","authors":"Stephen A. Rains, C. Scott","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2022.2037676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2022.2037676","url":null,"abstract":"It is not difficult to find a number of situations that involve opportunities for anonymous communication, especially in various forms of online interaction. The research reported here tests key propositions from the receiver response model (RRM) of anonymous communication. We conducted an experiment manipulating the context of a message from an anonymous source and examining its effects on perceived source anonymity, perceived ability and desire to identify the source, and intentions to identify the source. Participants expressed less desire to identify an anonymous source and perceived less ability to identify the source in a mass communication context than an interpersonal context. Desire and ability were positively associated with intentions to identify the source. Perceived anonymity was not different between the two contexts, but was positively associated with desire and negatively associated with ability to identify the anonymous source.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"78 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47032589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Oh, I like Your Accent”: Perceptions and Evaluations of Standard and Non-standard Accented English Speakers","authors":"Doris E. Acheme, Ioana A. Cionea","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2022.2037679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2022.2037679","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the evaluation of standard-accented English (SAE) and nonstandard accented English (non-SAE) speakers in the United States. Results of an experiment (N = 670) manipulating accent, nationality/L1 introduction, and speaker sex revealed main effects for accent on the evaluation of status, solidarity, and dynamism, and a main effect of speaker sex on solidarity. Additionally, an interaction effect between accent and nationality/L1 introduction on status and dynamism was found, as was an interaction effect of accent and speaker sex on dynamism. These results suggest complexity in the evaluation of non-SAE speakers and are discussed in relation to language attitudes and intergroup communication.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"92 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45369962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lyn M. van Swol, P. Ahn, Andrew Prahl, Zhenxing Gong
{"title":"Language Use and Feelings of Ostracism in an Online Chat Group","authors":"Lyn M. van Swol, P. Ahn, Andrew Prahl, Zhenxing Gong","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.2008461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.2008461","url":null,"abstract":"Pronoun use has been linked to focus of attention and feelings of group identity and cohesion. This study tests if the use of we and you pronouns are related to feelings of ostracism in an online chat group. We pronouns have been linked to higher group identity, and their use may decrease if participants feel ostracized. You pronouns have been linked to differentiation and distancing, and their use may increase with feelings of ostracism. Participants discussed their views about climate change (study 1) or the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump (study 2) in an online group chat. Afterward, participants assessed feelings of ostracism from the group. In both studies, participants who felt more ostracized used more you pronouns but not fewer we pronouns.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"65 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45879440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher J. Carpenter, Darmika Hutabarat, Michael R. Kotowski
{"title":"Testing the Validity of the Health Mavenness Self-Report Measure with Self-Other Correlations","authors":"Christopher J. Carpenter, Darmika Hutabarat, Michael R. Kotowski","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.2021542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.2021542","url":null,"abstract":"The three superdiffuser traits (health maven, connector, persuader) are identified using a self-report measure. The construct validity of the health maven measure requires that the health maven’s social network perceive the health maven to be a health maven. To test this validity hypothesis, a sample of 98 pairs of people who knew each other was drawn such that one member completed the self-reported superdiffuser measures and the other completed a modified version targeted at the other person. Closeness was also measured as a potential moderator. The self-other correlation for the health maven measure was positive, medium in size, and unmoderated. The self-other correlation for the connector scale was moderated by closeness such that it was stronger among closer pairs.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"53 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42012386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalie Pennington, Amanda J. Holmstrom, Jeffrey A. Hall
{"title":"The Toll of Technology while Working from Home during COVID-19","authors":"Natalie Pennington, Amanda J. Holmstrom, Jeffrey A. Hall","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2021.1993947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2021.1993947","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing from a quota sample of adult Americans (N = 540), this survey explored how individuals who worked from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic used information communication technologies (ICTs), and the relationship use had with perceived stress. Results suggested that increased use of work-related video chat and text messaging were related to greater stress levels and that, in particular, women with multiple children experienced greater stress while working remotely. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed concerning remote work in the future.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"35 1","pages":"25 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42152230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}