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Examining the Use of Alternative Restoration Scripts on the Psychological Reactance Process
(2014-05)
This study (N = 396) utilized a 3 (restoration: prescript vs. restoration postscript vs. control) × 2 (language: forceful vs. non-forceful) × 2 (topic: exercise vs. nutrition) mixed-model design to examine the effects of ...
Finding the Big Picture: A Bona Fide Group Approach to Work Team Assimilation
(2015-12)
The purpose of the present study was to use the bona fide group perspective to study organizational assimilation through the work team context. Applying this perspective served to address two limitations in the organizational ...
AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS: THE ROLE OF NETWORK STRUCTURES AND BOUNDARY SPANNER BEHAVIORS AS RELATED TO COLLABORATION IN INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS
(2011)
Using data collected as part of a grant project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF# 0538924), an exploratory analysis of the latent organizational structures and boundary spanner behaviors that impact perceived ...
HOW MEMORABLE SOCIALIZATION MESSAGES FROM WITHIN CULTURAL COMMUNITIES SHAPE ADULT MEANING ATTRIBUTIONS ABOUT WORK: THE CASE OF LEBANESE-AMERICANS
(2013)
This dissertation describes the process by which community messaging obligates members to perform work behaviors in order to achieve full membership status--labeled here the Obligation-based Culturing of Work (OCW). The ...
An Ethnography of Twitch Streamers: Negotiating Professionalism in New Media Content Creation
(2017-05-12)
Twitch is an online video distribution platform that allows individuals to broadcast live video of themselves playing video games, and includes features that allow viewers to financially support their favorite Twitch ...
To Think Different: The Unexpected Consequences of Personal Computer and Internet Use
(2010)
This study examines the contemporary user patterns that emerged when a new medium--the personal computer and the Internet--was introduced into the user's media ecology. The study focuses on the introductory period and ...
THE SOLACE OF EXTREMISM: AN EXAMINATION OF EXISTENTIAL MOTIVATION AND THE PERSUASIVENESS OF EXTREME GROUPS
(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 ...
Transversing Our borders: Decolonizing Communication Theory
(2015-08-14)
This dissertation explores the limitations of western communication models through analyzing the western colonial philosophical assumptions which underlie theories of communication. The themes of knowledge, reality, identity, ...
AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF STUDENT-TO-STUDENT BENCHMARKING COMMUNICATION
(2011)
Almost certainly, students communicate with each other about course-related material, particularly about exam performance. However, what is less well understood is how often student-to-student communication occurs, when ...
Terror Management Theory, Religious Orientation, and Dissociation: Addressing Allport's Paradox of Religion and Racism
(2014-04-30)
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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 ...