{"title":"Sublime Wonder: Rachel Carson, Nature Writing, and Human-Nature Connection","authors":"Mollie K. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2366213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2366213","url":null,"abstract":"The sublime and beautiful have historically been distinguished based on scale, emotions involved in the response, and the objects typically associated with each. This article forwards a notion of t...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611662","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":"How Motivation Type Accounts for Problematic Levels of Pro-Social Engagement Across Domains of Politics, Health, and the Workplace","authors":"Roger Gans","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2366221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2366221","url":null,"abstract":"Issues of problematic disengagement have been broadly studied within the domains of politics, health, and the workplace, but rarely studied across these domains. This survey-based experimental stud...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141744353","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":"Coral Safe or Skin Safe?: Risk Information Behaviors and Green Purchase Decisions","authors":"Wan Wang, Patrick Jamar, Zhengyu Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2366218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2366218","url":null,"abstract":"Coral bleaching threatens coral safety and the marine environment. Coral-safe sunscreens are encouraged as a green product to protect coral reefs by many U.S. states and other nations. This study c...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611666","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":"Facilitating and Hindering Accurate Perceptions of Argument Strength: The Effects of Intergroup Bias and Intellectual Humility","authors":"Daniel Montez, Jake Harwood","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2369780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2369780","url":null,"abstract":"Intellectual humility (IH), the awareness that one’s beliefs could be wrong, is lacking in U.S. political discourse. Guided by the elaboration likelihood model, we conducted an experiment (N = 308)...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611661","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":"Responses to a WEA Tornado Warning Text Message: A Health Belief Model Approach","authors":"Zachary Riel, Nathan Miczo","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2358064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2358064","url":null,"abstract":"This investigation utilized the health belief model (HBM) to examine perceptions of a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) tornado text message, in relation to secondary crisis communication and shelter-...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529589","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":"Negotiating Trans Identity and Boundaries at Work: How Situational and Personal Factors Affect Workplace Identity Communication","authors":"Rebecca Baumler","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2324380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2324380","url":null,"abstract":"This study extends boundary theory by arguing that situational factors and personal factors influence how individuals construct boundaries surrounding trans identity at work, and that identity comm...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140156922","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":"Encountering Material Rhetorics in the Ruins of Saturn","authors":"Saul Kutnicki","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2324384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2324384","url":null,"abstract":"As interests in material rhetoric continue to evolve among communication scholars, questions persist about how the durability of objects impact their rhetorical dimensions. To more fully understand...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140155246","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":"Are you Cheating on Me? Identifying Factors Contributing to the Use of Suspicion Confirmation and Avoidance Strategies","authors":"Daniel J Weigel, M. Rosie Shrout","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2324382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2324382","url":null,"abstract":"This study integrates communication, motivational, and behavioral elements to identify factors that lead to the use of key information seeking strategies people employ to confirm or avoid suspicion...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140117270","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":"Temporary Workers Who Pursue the Contemporary Well-Lived, Flourishing Life: A Qualitative Study","authors":"Ivan Gan","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2024.2324204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2024.2324204","url":null,"abstract":"Aristotle’s notion of eudaimonia guided this investigation on a growing and essential group of professionals that seeks voluntary role transitions to meaningfully advance their careers and nonwork ...","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"279 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140073172","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":"Editorial Introduction","authors":"Lisa E. Silvestri, Casey R. Schmitt","doi":"10.1080/10570314.2023.2292829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2023.2292829","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Western Journal of Communication (Vol. 88, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46926,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION","volume":"151 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139579032","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}