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Seeking Help May Enhance Perceptions of Competence: Examining Direct and Indirect Help Seeking in the Workplace 寻求帮助可以提高能力的感知：考察在工作场所直接和间接寻求帮助

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261428827

Ningxin Wang, Guanjin Zhang

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Disentangling the Longitudinal Relationship Between Social Media Use, Political Expression and Political Participation: What Do We Really Know? 解开社交媒体使用、政治表达和政治参与之间的纵向关系：我们到底知道什么？

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261430387

Jörg Matthes, Andreas Nanz, Marlis Stubenvoll, Ruta Kaskeleviciute

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An Analysis of Studies Testing Digital Interventions to Inoculate Against Misinformation: A Systematic Review 测试数字干预以预防错误信息的研究分析：系统回顾

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/00936502251411467

Daniel Loughnan, Aart van Stekelenburg, J. Loes Pouwels, Marieke L. Fransen, Mariska Kleemans

{"title":"An Analysis of Studies Testing Digital Interventions to Inoculate Against Misinformation: A Systematic Review","authors":"Daniel Loughnan, Aart van Stekelenburg, J. Loes Pouwels, Marieke L. Fransen, Mariska Kleemans","doi":"10.1177/00936502251411467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502251411467","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of misinformation has stimulated research into games and videos to reduce susceptibility to misinformation via psychological inoculation. This research field applies several recent extensions of inoculation theory in novel ways, posing the question of whether such interventions are indeed producing inoculation effects. We conducted a systematic review ( k = 72) to establish the strength of the links between inoculation theory and the outcomes of the tests. We found that the studies did not pose hypotheses relating to the core factors of inoculation theory: threat conferral and counterarguing. Moreover, empirical designs and analyses have introduced confounding factors. Therefore, links between psychological inoculation theory and the tests are weak, and the question of whether the interventions inoculate remains unbroached. We recommend that future research include theoretically relevant variables in improved empirical tests and that researchers exercise caution in interpreting the results of existing studies as representative of psychological inoculation effects.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147578415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Adolescents’ Trust in Political Content From Influencers: The Roles of Motive Attribution and Parental Mediation 青少年对影响者政治内容的信任：动机归因和父母中介的作用

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261425708

Darian Harff, Ellen Van Houtven, Heleen Dekoninck, Desiree Schmuck

{"title":"Adolescents’ Trust in Political Content From Influencers: The Roles of Motive Attribution and Parental Mediation","authors":"Darian Harff, Ellen Van Houtven, Heleen Dekoninck, Desiree Schmuck","doi":"10.1177/00936502261425708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261425708","url":null,"abstract":"In today’s fragmented media landscape, social media influencers (SMIs) have emerged as popular political information sources among young audiences—despite often lacking political expertise. However, we have limited knowledge about factors that predict trust in SMIs’ political content during early and middle adolescence, a critical period during which political attitudes are formed. This study proposes two novel theoretical pathways to explain varying trust perceptions between and within adolescents: a source-centered pathway, focusing on observed SMI-audience interactions and motive attribution, and an audience-centered pathway, emphasizing adolescents’ digital literacy and parental mediation. A three-wave panel survey ( N W3 = 799 parent-child dyads) shows that trust in SMIs’ political information is higher among those adolescents who view SMIs as involved with their audiences and altruistically motivated, and among adolescents with high digital literacy and whose parents engage in active mediation. However, changes in these variables do not predict deviations from adolescents’ usual trust levels.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Role of Relationship Parameters in Emotion Experiences During Interactions Between Romantic Partners: Testing Relational Turbulence Theory in a Dyadic, Lab Study 关系参数在浪漫伴侣互动中的情感体验中的作用：在一个二元实验室研究中测试关系湍流理论

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261427071

Kellie St.Cyr Brisini, Ningyang “Ocean” Wang

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Using the Theory of Resilience and Relational Load to Examine the Impact of Couples’ Financial Conflict on Relational Load and (Hair and Salivary) Cortisol 运用弹性和关系负荷理论研究夫妻经济冲突对关系负荷和（毛发和唾液）皮质醇的影响

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261428553

Tamara D. Afifi, Veronica Wilson, Chloe Gonzales, Chantel Haughton, Abdullah S. Salehuddin

{"title":"Using the Theory of Resilience and Relational Load to Examine the Impact of Couples’ Financial Conflict on Relational Load and (Hair and Salivary) Cortisol","authors":"Tamara D. Afifi, Veronica Wilson, Chloe Gonzales, Chantel Haughton, Abdullah S. Salehuddin","doi":"10.1177/00936502261428553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261428553","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined whether romantic partners’ relationship maintenance and communal orientation predict their financial conflict, and, in turn, their relational load and physiological stress. Eighty-two heterosexual, cohabitating couples participated in a conversation about their financial stress, completed surveys, and provided saliva and hair samples for cortisol. Overall, greater communal orientation and ongoing relationship maintenance were associated with less conflict about financial stress, as well as lower relational load. The findings revealed partner and actor effects. For women, feeling communally oriented was associated with less of their own and their partner’s relational load after the conversation by lessening both of their perceptions of conflict. Even though relationship maintenance and communal orientation did not significantly affect men’s physiological stress, women’s HCC and salivary cortisol (at p < .10) were mediated through their own and their partner’s perceptions of their financial conflict.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Responses to Position-Disconfirming Meta-Advice in the Context of Conflicting Vs. Consistent Co-Presenting Messages: The Role of Reactance and Perceived Norms 在冲突与一致共同呈现信息的背景下，对立场不确定元建议的反应：抗拒和感知规范的作用

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261430977

Yanmengqian Zhou, Shu Scott Li

{"title":"Responses to Position-Disconfirming Meta-Advice in the Context of Conflicting Vs. Consistent Co-Presenting Messages: The Role of Reactance and Perceived Norms","authors":"Yanmengqian Zhou, Shu Scott Li","doi":"10.1177/00936502261430977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261430977","url":null,"abstract":"Advice is a vital form of interpersonal influence, and some advice concerns advising others (i.e., meta-advice). In today’s competitive information environment, individuals often encounter both recommendations that support their stance and those that challenge it. Drawing on psychological reactance and normative influence theories, this study examines how people respond to position-disconfirming meta-advice when it is presented in different message contexts—either paired with another position-disconfirming message (consistent) or with a position-confirming message (conflicting). In an experiment, U.S. participants who were either pro- or anti-advising others to get vaccinated received position-disconfirming meta-advice under consistent or conflicting conditions. Results revealed two countervailing effects: pairing position-disconfirming with position-confirming meta-advice mitigated reactance, leading to more favorable responses to the position-disconfirming message, but it also lowered perceived norms, which in turn undermined favorable responses. These findings illuminate how context shapes responses to position-disconfirming meta-advice, with theoretical and practical implications for interpersonal influence in multi-message environments.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147524140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From Buttons to Bots: Exploring the Impact of Enhanced Features in Voting Advice Applications on Desktops and Smartphones 从按钮到机器人：探索增强功能对桌面和智能手机投票建议应用程序的影响

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261425713

Christine Liebrecht, Naomi Kamoen, Rieke van Lieshout

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Differential Effects of Counter-Stereotypical Portrayals of Warmth Across Racial Groups: Behavioral and Experimental Evidence 不同种族群体对温暖的反刻板印象的不同影响：行为和实验证据

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-18 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261430969

Xun Zhu, Youllee Kim, Huai-yu Chen

{"title":"Differential Effects of Counter-Stereotypical Portrayals of Warmth Across Racial Groups: Behavioral and Experimental Evidence","authors":"Xun Zhu, Youllee Kim, Huai-yu Chen","doi":"10.1177/00936502261430969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261430969","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines how counter-stereotypical portrayals influence prosocial behavior across racial groups within the context of medical crowdfunding. Drawing on the stereotype content model and expectancy violation theory, we investigate how messages that contradict stereotypes of racial groups perceived as having low warmth violate expectations about these groups and influence campaign donations. Across two studies—an analysis of over 17,000 crowdfunding campaigns (Studies 1a-c) and an online experiment ( N = 688; Study 2)—counter-stereotypical portrayals of warmth were associated with higher donations for Asian and White beneficiaries but with lower donations for Black beneficiaries. Expectancy violations mediated these effects, with Black beneficiaries experiencing smaller positive expectancy shifts than other groups. The findings highlight the differential effects of warm-based portrayals across racial groups when used to challenge stereotypes. The study advances theoretical frameworks on stereotypes and expectancy violations while offering practical guidance for more effective and equitable messaging strategies.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147478024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Radical Right-Wing Political Deepfakes Can Successfully Delegitimize Targeted Political Actors: Evidence From Three-wave Experiments in the US and The Netherlands 激进右翼政治深度造假可以成功地使有针对性的政治行为者失去合法性：来自美国和荷兰三波实验的证据

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-03-11 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261421437

Michael Hameleers, Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Marina Tulin, Tom Dobber

{"title":"Radical Right-Wing Political Deepfakes Can Successfully Delegitimize Targeted Political Actors: Evidence From Three-wave Experiments in the US and The Netherlands","authors":"Michael Hameleers, Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Marina Tulin, Tom Dobber","doi":"10.1177/00936502261421437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261421437","url":null,"abstract":"Political deepfakes potentially undermine democracy by amplifying socio-political divides in hyper-realistic manners. As an important next step in understanding the political consequences of deepfakes, this article reports on the longer-term effects of deepfakes across two different political settings: The US and the Netherlands. We conducted three-wave pre-registered experiments spanning a full week in which we exposed participants in the US and the Netherlands to realistic political deepfakes. We found that, in both political settings, exposure to deepfakes lowered support for the targeted political actor. This effect was strongest for people initially supporting the attacked politician. Although deepfakes had a delegitimizing impact, they were rated as substantially less credible than authentic videos. Although fact-checks were able to lower the credibility of deepfakes, the delegitimizing impact of deepfakes was resilient to corrections. These findings highlight the continued influence of corrected deepfakes on political beliefs.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147393423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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