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THE MODERATING ROLE OF MORTALITY SALIENCE: AN EXAMINATION OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, VOTER-OUTCOME VARIABLES, AND POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS
(2012)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine terror management theory in conjunction with immigration and economy issue advertisements. Specifically, this study examines how voters' intent to vote for a conservative 2012 ...
Building Resistance to Front Group Stealth: A Theoretical Merger Between Inoculation Theory and the Heuristic Systematic Processing Model
(2013)
This experimental research tested two motivational factors drawn from the heuristic processing model (Chaiken, 1980) to understand the role of message processing in the success of deceptive front groups. This research ...
Social Capital Networks of Media NGOs in Peru: A Public Relations Approach to Explicating Relationships in Civil Society
(2011)
Civil society is created and sustained through the relationships of interconnected organizations such as NGOs and donors. Social capital is created via these relationships, providing civil society actors with the tangible ...
Parents' Biased Perceptions About Media Influence: Examining Perceived Effects on One's Own Child, Other Children, And Other Parents From Violent Tv Ads And Psa's To Stop Cyberbullying
(2012)
This study found within a large, demographically diverse sample of American parents evidence of a parental third-person effect and a parental first-person effect. This was regardless of whether the respondent was a mother ...
Lebanese Subjectivities and Media Use: Post/Global Contexts
(2011)
Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the process by which the self makes meaning of its place in the world. To further our understandings of media and social change, ...
REACTANCE THEORY AND SELF-CONSTRUAL IN THE EAST AND WEST
(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 ...
Cross-cultural comparisons on pathways between language barriers and health disparities
(2016-12-16)
Despite a large number of studies verifying the correlations among language barriers in healthcare settings and health disparities, the precise ways language barriers contribute to health disparities is less clear. This ...
Negotiating the Tensions of Collective Change Implementation
(2016-05)
Given the increasing number of interorganizational collaborations across governmental and private sectors, this study furthers theoretical understanding of these important relationships by focusing on dialectical tensions ...
INTERSECTING POLITICS AND HEALTH: REPRESENTATIONS OF A MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE
(2017)
Public health initiatives are spurred from three dominant political ideologies—neoliberalism, social justice, and pluralism—that influence the policy goals and methods. Neoliberalism, in particular, is the dominant ...
The Influence of Online Cues and Warranting Value on Impression Formation
(2015-05)
Warranting theory was developed as a means to understand how individuals
judge whether online information is reliable and valid and how those judgments
influence their impressions (DeAndrea, 2014; Walther, 2011). ...