{"title":"Cell Phone Addiction, Anxiety, and Willingness to Communicate in Face-to-Face Encounters","authors":"Ryan Allred, D. Atkin","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2020.1780456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2020.1780456","url":null,"abstract":"The permeation of cell phone technology continues to alter human behavior by changing the way individuals communicate with both physically distant and co-present others. Despite their numerous communicative affordances, past research suggests potential negative effects when cell phones are over-used. Results from an online survey (N = 498) indicate that cell phone addiction was positively associated with experiences of anxiety. Anxiety, in turn, was negatively associated with willingness to engage in face-to-face communication. These findings suggest cell phones serve to improve communication with distant others while also posing a potential threat to the quality of communication with co-present others.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"106 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2020.1780456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43713761","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":"Exploring the Impacts of Leader Integrity and Ethics on Upward Dissent and Whistleblowing Intentions","authors":"Cheng Zeng, S. Kelly, Ryan Goke","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2020.1761413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2020.1761413","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined internal dissent and external whistleblowing, two constructs examined extensively as individual concepts but not in tandem. Participants were given one of four scenarios based on a 2 (high unethical case vs. low unethical case) × 2 (high leader integrity vs. low leader integrity) experimental design to test their whistleblowing and dissent intentions. Results indicated leader integrity influenced an employee’s level of dissent intentions with ethics having a significant effect on whistleblowing intentions when controlling for managerial position and organizational tenure. Future research should continue exploring whistleblowing and dissent tendencies in organizational settings.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"82 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2020.1761413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43515964","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":"Metacognitive Inoculation Reduces the Persuasiveness of Sarcastic Attack Messages","authors":"Lauren Clyne, Michael Fellers, A. Richards","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2020.1755876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2020.1755876","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the ability of metacognitive inoculation to confer resistance to sarcastic persuasive messages. We expected that sarcasm in an attack message would be more persuasive for inoculation and control treatments compared to an inoculation containing a forewarning of sarcasm’s psychological function. A 3 (inoculation: traditional, metacognitive, control) × 2 (attack: sarcastic, literal) experiment was conducted whereby participants were inoculated and then listened to a message advocating for college exit exams. Our prediction was supported, demonstrating that metacognitive inoculation about persuasive tactics, like sarcasm, can reduce the success of such strategies.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"68 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2020.1755876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45468462","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":"Ameliorating the Adverse Consequences of Verbal Aggression: The Buffering Effect of Esteem Support on Personal and Relational Outcomes","authors":"Lindsey S. Aloia, Andrew C. High","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2020.1741659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2020.1741659","url":null,"abstract":"This study’s primary goal was to examine the mitigating effects of the quantity and quality of received esteem support after experiencing verbal aggression. Seventy-one heterosexual romantic couples (142 students) completed measures assessing verbal aggression, esteem support, mental health, and relationship satisfaction. Results documented the negative personal and relational consequences of verbal aggression; however, the quantity and quality of esteem support buffered the consequences of verbal aggression. The findings indicated that quantity and quality of support are separate dimensions of supportive interactions that yield differential outcomes, especially for females.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"55 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2020.1741659","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47748395","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 Effects of Anger Appeals on Systematic Processing and Intentions: The Moderating Role of Efficacy","authors":"M. Turner, A. Richards, E. Bessarabova, Y. Magid","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2019.1682175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2019.1682175","url":null,"abstract":"The anger activism model proposes that efficacy moderates the effect of anger on message processing and persuasion. This study tested the model’s predictions using a 2 (efficacy) × 2 (anger) × 2 (argument quality) experiment (N = 267) in the context of student protests. We found that when anger was high, people processed higher quality arguments more positively at levels of high efficacy but less positively at levels of low efficacy. A moderated moderated mediation model showed that these cognitions mediated the effect of the experimental interaction on intentions to protest.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"14 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2019.1682175","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48013368","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}
Stephanie Kelly, Alfredo Romero, J. Morrow, Z. Denton, Johnny Ducking
{"title":"Instructor Misbehaviors and Math Anxiety","authors":"Stephanie Kelly, Alfredo Romero, J. Morrow, Z. Denton, Johnny Ducking","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2019.1675737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2019.1675737","url":null,"abstract":"Instructor misbehaviors (i.e., antagonism, lectures) have been identified as instructor behaviors that negatively impact students’ success in the classroom. Math anxiety also has been identified as a barrier to students’ success in quantitative reasoning classes. The present study postulates that instructor misbehaviors are actually non-immediate behaviors, which are a set of instructional behaviors that increase the amount of psychological distance (i.e., perceived immediacy) that students perceive they experience with their instructor. As such, this paper predicted that instructor misbehaviors decrease students’ perceived immediacy, thereby increasing students’ math anxiety. This mediated relationship was supported by the data.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"27 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2019.1675737","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44362570","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}
Toni Morgan, Jordan Soliz, Mackensie Minniear, Gretchen Bergquist
{"title":"Communication Accommodation and Identity Gaps as Predictors of Relational Solidarity in Interfaith Family Relationships","authors":"Toni Morgan, Jordan Soliz, Mackensie Minniear, Gretchen Bergquist","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2019.1692052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2019.1692052","url":null,"abstract":"Guided by Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), the purpose of this study was to investigate how families communicatively negotiate religious differences and how that negotiation is related to parent-child relational solidarity. Specifically, we examined the direct effects of (non)accommodative communication on relational solidarity and indirect effects via identity gaps. Using a cross-sectional survey from emerging adult college students (N = 234), we found nonaccommodative communication is indirectly related to lower relational solidarity through increased identity gaps. Accommodative communication is indirectly related to higher relational solidarity through decreased identity gaps. When parents use accommodative strategies, they may help alleviate the mismatch between their child’s personal, enacted, and relational layers of identity, and foster increased relational solidarity.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"41 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2019.1692052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44877619","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":"Playing a Bad Character but Endorsing a Good Cause: Actor-character Fundamental Attribution Error and Persuasion","authors":"Riva H. Tukachinsky","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2019.1691618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2019.1691618","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the implications of fundamental attribution error, wherein viewers misattribute qualities of the fictional characters onto the actors who portray them. In an experiment, individuals watched an actor playing a role of either a hero or a villain. Then, participants watched the same actor in a public service announcement. In line with the attribution theory, viewers rated the actor’s personality less positively, reported a weaker parasocial relationship with the actor, and listed more negative thoughts about the advertisement after exposure to the actor playing a villain.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"33 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2019.1691618","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49539294","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}
Tara G. McManus, Walid A. Afifi, Megan R. Dillow, K. Dunleavy, A. E. Hubbard, Francis L. F. Lee, L. Sparks, Kjerstin Thorson, Jennifer H. Waldeck, Erin K. Willer
{"title":"EOV Editorial Board","authors":"Tara G. McManus, Walid A. Afifi, Megan R. Dillow, K. Dunleavy, A. E. Hubbard, Francis L. F. Lee, L. Sparks, Kjerstin Thorson, Jennifer H. Waldeck, Erin K. Willer","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2019.1662998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2019.1662998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"32 1","pages":"190 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2019.1662998","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45089073","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, Andrew Prahl, Erina L. MacGeorge, Sara Branch
{"title":"Imposing Advice on Powerful People","authors":"Lyn M. van Swol, Andrew Prahl, Erina L. MacGeorge, Sara Branch","doi":"10.1080/08934215.2019.1655082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08934215.2019.1655082","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how advice recipients’ feelings of power and the solicitation of advice affects the perception of advice. Participants were primed for low or high power, wrote about a personal problem, and shared it online to a peer. The peer was a confederate who gave advice. Advice was either permitted (participant was asked if they wanted advice and said yes), guaranteed (participant was given advice without asking if wanted), or imposed (participant said they did not want advice, but advice was given). Participants had lower utilization intentions and positive emotions for imposed advice than permitted or guaranteed advice. High power participants had lower intentions than low power participants to use imposed advice, especially when disclosing a more personal problem.","PeriodicalId":45913,"journal":{"name":"Communication Reports","volume":"32 1","pages":"173 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08934215.2019.1655082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41482357","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}