Browsing by Author "Miller, Claude"
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ANXIETY BUFFER DISRUPTION THEORY: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF COMBAT VETERANS
Maxwell, Marc (2017-12-15)Studies continue to show U.S. military veterans are committing suicide at an alarming rate. The Department of Veterans Affairs is a reactionary force which provides counseling and mental health assistance after the service ... -
Diffusion of innovation: Leveraging leadership networks in a regional context
Olive, Strawberry-Blue (2017-12-15)Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine how social innovation has developed and diffused within a regional context during the first five years of a new initiative. This is a timeframe where elite relationships ... -
The effects of controlling language, fear, and disgust on responses to COVID-19 vaccination promotion messages
Ma, Haijing (2021-05-14)Using psychological reactance theory (PRT; Brehm, 1966) as an explanatory framework, this dissertation experimentally tested the effects of combining controlling language, fear appeals, and disgust appeals on responses to ... -
EXPANDING LANGUAGE EXPECTANCY THEORY: THE SUASORY EFFECTS OF LEXICAL COMPLEXITY AND SEMANTIC COMPLEXITY ON EFFECTIVE HEALTH MESSAGE DESIGN
Averbeck, Josh (2011)This research seeks to fill a gap concerning screening for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) by using language expectancy theory (LET; Burgoon, Jones, & Stewart, 1975; Miller & Burgoon, 1979) and regulatory focus theory ... -
Explaining the Effects of Vicarious Contact in an Entertainment Television Program about Autism
Zhong, Yuwei (2020)This study is designed to further examine the mechanisms behind vicarious intergroup contact and the effect of exposure to a narrative about an autistic individual on reducing intergroup prejudice towards an autistic ... -
Finding the Balance: Creating an open, sustainable future for OU
Bemben, Michael G.; Fithian, Lee; Folsom, Raphael; Masly, J.P.; Miller, Claude; Pandora, Katherine; Purcell, Darren; Schroeder, Caroline T.; Rupp-Serrano, Karen; Waller, Jen (2021)Today’s scholars have more publishing options available to them than ever before. In addition to traditional publishing venues, open publishing has become a viable and practicable option for communicating research to ever ... -
Finding the Balance: Creating an open, sustainable future for OU (slide deck)
Bemben, Michael G.; Fithian, Lee; Folsom, Raphael; Masly, J.P.; Miller, Claude; Pandora, Katherine; Purcell, Darren; Schroeder, Caroline T.; Rupp-Serrano, Karen; Waller, Jen (2021)Today’s scholars have more publishing options available to them than ever before. In addition to traditional publishing venues, open publishing has become a viable and practicable option for communicating research to ever ... -
Finding the Balance: Creating an open, sustainable future for OU (video)
Bemben, Michael G.; Fithian, Lee; Folsom, Raphael; Masly, J.P.; Miller, Claude; Pandora, Katherine; Purcell, Darren; Schroeder, Caroline T.; Rupp-Serrano, Karen; Waller, Jen (2021)Today’s scholars have more publishing options available to them than ever before. In addition to traditional publishing venues, open publishing has become a viable and practicable option for communicating research to ever ... -
Hearing race: the effects of race and accent on language attitudes and intergroup communication outcomes
Acheme, Doris (2022-07)Relying on assumptions from social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), alongside integrated threat theory and intersectionality framework/theory, this dissertation investigated how speakers are socially categorized ... -
“I Phub You Because…”: Testing a Theory of Interpersonal Behavior for Understanding and Predicting Phubbing
Sun, Juhyung (2024-05-10)Phubbing (i.e., phone and snubbing) is toxic to most individuals. Unlike their perceptions that it is rude, they still phub others. With the prevalence of such behavior in the current age of high technology, it is necessary ... -
THE INVISIBLE OTHER IN CROSS-CULTURAL CARE: INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES/ NONNATIVE PHYSICIANS IN PROVIDER-PATIENT INTERACTIONS
Liao, Danni (2017-05-12)The field of cross-cultural care has been primarily focused on examining doctor-patient communication when patients are minorities, immigrants, and refugees, conceptualizing nonnative physicians/ International Medical ... -
Mitigating the Propensity to Victim-Blame via Parasocial Contact with Survivors of Sexual Assault
Barbati, Juliana (2019-05)This study attempts to integrate the predictions of defensive attribution theory (DAT; Shaver, 1970) and the parasocial contact hypothesis (PCH; Schiappa, Allen, & Gregg, 2005) to formulate a method for minimizing the ... -
REACTANCE THEORY AND SELF-CONSTRUAL IN THE EAST AND WEST
Liu, Shr-Jie (2017-05-12)Using psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) as an explanatory framework, this dissertation experimentally tests the effects of appeal type, restoration type, and self-construal on freedom threat perceptions, reactance ... -
REPORTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS: EXPLORING ANTHROPOMORPHIC LANGUAGE AND ALTERNATIVE STORY FORMATS AS JOURNALISTIC MECHANISMS TO COMBAT OBSTACLES ASSOCIATED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION
DeWalt, Christina A. Childs (2017)Reporting on climate change has been a special challenge for journalists, but new approaches to storytelling may help curb some of the inherent confounds found in environmental discourse. Through experimental analysis, ... -
THE SOLACE OF EXTREMISM: AN EXAMINATION OF EXISTENTIAL MOTIVATION AND THE PERSUASIVENESS OF EXTREME GROUPS
Massey, Zachary (2019-05-10)This dissertation examines the persuasive appeal of extreme groups under conditions of self-uncertainty. The guiding theoretical framework, uncertainty-identity theory (UIT; Hogg, 2007) argues self-uncertainty motivates ... -
“Sorry, It Was My Fault”: Repairing Trust in Human-Robot Interactions
Zhang, Xinyi (2021-05-14)Robots have been playing an increasingly important role in human life, but their performance is yet far from perfection. Based on extant literature in interpersonal, organizational, and human-machine communication, the ... -
Terror Management Theory, Religious Orientation, and Dissociation: Addressing Allport's Paradox of Religion and Racism
Beller, Jeremie (2014-04-30)Abstract This dissertation addresses the paradoxical relationship between religion and racism. Specifically, this study combines elements of terror management theory (TMT) and the dissociation model to examine the potential ... -
Unmasking the Effects of Social Identity, Polarization, and Anger on Information Processing and Attitudes: An Exploration into the ‘Mask Debate’ of COVID-19 on Twitter
Strasbaugh, Keith (2022-05)The ‘mask debate’ surrounding COVID-19 (i.e., whether or not to wear a mask) has generated contention in online forums such as Twitter, where observed division of perspectives often runs along lines of social identity ...