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Sex, Romance, or Recreation? An Experiment Testing the Effects of Cannabis Brand-generated Social Media Ads on College Students’ Expectancies and Intentions to Use Cannabis Prior to Sex 性，浪漫，还是娱乐？大麻品牌社交媒体广告对大学生在性行为前使用大麻的期望和意图影响的实验

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261480401

Jessica Fitts Willoughby, Stacey J. T. Hust, Leticia Couto, Jiayu Li, Soojung Kang

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Less Effort to Believe and More Effort to Disbelieve: Examining the Interplay between News-Finds-Me and Affective Polarization in Political Fake News Susceptibility in the United States 更少的努力去相信和更多的努力去不相信：检验新闻发现我和美国政治假新闻敏感性的情感两极之间的相互作用

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-08-26 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261472023

Yu Tian, Lars Willnat, Baohua Zhou

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From Exposure to Creation: Cultivating Narrative Ownership to Reduce Stigma 从曝光到创作：培养叙事所有权以减少耻辱

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261478972

Xun Zhu

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What Do We Mean by Transparency? Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Transparency in Communication 透明是什么意思？沟通透明度的概念化和操作化

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-08-17 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261470088

Wenjia Yan, Li Crystal Jiang, Yiqian Gao, Pingping Jia

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Twitter Conversations: Gendered Issue Publics Among Women 推特对话：女性中的性别问题

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261470086

Caley Hewitt, Ayla Oden, Nichole M. Bauer

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The Bio-Functional Audience: Shared Physiological Alignment to Narrative Media 生物功能受众：与叙事媒介的共享生理一致性

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-07-28 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261472026

Ralf Schmälzle, Hee Jung Cho, Monique Mitchell Turner

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Music Was My First Love: Biographic Resonance Makes Everyday Music Listening Meaningful 音乐是我的初恋：传记共振使日常音乐聆听有意义

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261468400

Felix Dietrich, Alicia Ernst, Benedikt Rohr, Michael Scharkow, Leonard Reinecke

{"title":"Music Was My First Love: Biographic Resonance Makes Everyday Music Listening Meaningful","authors":"Felix Dietrich, Alicia Ernst, Benedikt Rohr, Michael Scharkow, Leonard Reinecke","doi":"10.1177/00936502261468400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261468400","url":null,"abstract":"Despite much research on eudaimonic media experiences, little is known about how and why certain content is perceived as meaningful by certain users in certain situations. We therefore examine biographic resonance — connections between entertainment content and users’ biographic memories — during everyday music listening on Spotify and propose that memory recall, as well as its emotional valence, relate to meaningfulness via distinct patterns of intrinsic need satisfaction. Results from a preregistered, intensive-longitudinal study (144 persons; 6,920 situations) reveal that biographic resonance relates to both high- and low-effort modes of eudaimonic entertainment. Moreover, by linking users’ self-reports with their tracked digital music use (2,786 sessions; 107,147 songs), we find that the occurrence and quality of biographic resonance vary across situations and are shaped by both content and contextual factors within algorithmically curated environments. Our results highlight how resonances between media users’ selves and entertainment content foster situational meaningfulness in everyday life.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148595551","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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Chatbots and Loneliness: How Linguistic Dynamics in Conversations with Chatbots Shape Young Adults’ Loneliness 聊天机器人与孤独：与聊天机器人对话中的语言动态如何塑造年轻人的孤独

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-07-11 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261466012

Jinyoung Choi, Catalina L. Toma

{"title":"Chatbots and Loneliness: How Linguistic Dynamics in Conversations with Chatbots Shape Young Adults’ Loneliness","authors":"Jinyoung Choi, Catalina L. Toma","doi":"10.1177/00936502261466012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261466012","url":null,"abstract":"This study theorizes and tests language-based mechanisms through which conversations with chatbots can shape users’ loneliness. Lonely college students ( N = 96) engaged in emotionally meaningful conversations with the chatbot Replika daily for one week. Results showed a small but significant decrease in users’ loneliness from baseline to post-test. Linguistic analyses revealed two distinct well-being pathways. When participants used more positive emotion language, so did the chatbot, which was linked to higher positive daily affect and lower post-study loneliness. Conversely, when participants used more negative emotion language, so did the chatbot, which was linked to lower positive daily affect and higher post-study loneliness. Findings provide evidence for an expression effect , where users’ own positive (but not negative) linguistic framing shapes their well-being, and a chatbot-response effect , where chatbots mirror and amplify users’ emotional tone. This study theorizes chatbots as emotional mirrors with dual potential to alleviate or exacerbate users’ loneliness.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148416759","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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Do Profile Photos Enhance Vicarious Intergroup Contact? Testing Theoretical Perspectives from Social Identity, the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE), and Social Presence 头像照片能增强群组间的相互联系吗？从社会认同、去个性化效应的社会认同模型（SIDE）和社会存在三个方面检验理论视角

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-07-06 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261466759

Yue (Nancy) Dai, Lunrui Fu, Wufan Jia

{"title":"Do Profile Photos Enhance Vicarious Intergroup Contact? Testing Theoretical Perspectives from Social Identity, the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE), and Social Presence","authors":"Yue (Nancy) Dai, Lunrui Fu, Wufan Jia","doi":"10.1177/00936502261466759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261466759","url":null,"abstract":"Profile photos are ubiquitous in online environments, yet little is known about how they shape observers’ impressions when mediated interactions involve members of different social groups. This experiment ( N = 1,661) examined how profile photos influence impressions formed during observed intergroup exchanges in news comment sections. A 2 × 2 design (topic × photo) tested mechanisms derived from Social Identity Theory (SIT), the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE), and Social Presence Theory. Results showed that profile photos heightened awareness of the relevant group distinction and, through identification with the ingroup commenter, led to more positive outgroup responses—but only when the photos clearly conveyed the group difference central to the interaction. When both interpersonal and intergroup processes were modeled together, only the intergroup pathway remained supported. These findings clarify how profile photos shape mediated impressions and identify cue diagnosticity as key for enhancing vicarious intergroup contact.","PeriodicalId":48323,"journal":{"name":"Communication Research","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148393980","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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Partisanship in Context: The (A)symmetric Influence of Local Newspaper Availability and Selective Exposure on Political Misperceptions in the U.S. 背景下的党派关系：(A)美国地方报纸可得性和选择性曝光对政治误解的对称影响

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Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-06-29 DOI: 10.1177/00936502261463581

Jianing Li, Michael W. Wagner

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