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The effects of interactional identity traits (gender, partisanship, and veteran status) on candidate evaluations and electorate voting behaviors in U.S. Congressional elections
(2023-05-12)
Every year, the political candidates who run in the U.S. congressional elections become more and more diverse; there are more women, more veterans, more members of ethnic group minorities in Congress. Political candidates ...
Gender identity and prototypes in caring professions: The role of communication in identity work and career development
(2020-07-30)
Occupational segregation is a persistent phenomenon occurring in many professions. In caring professions, the percentage of men in these jobs is low. This interview-based study explains how men in such professions (i.e., ...
The effects of controlling language, fear, and disgust on responses to COVID-19 vaccination promotion messages
(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 ...
Communication Confidence in Confronting Unethical Behavior: Scale Development and Validation
(2020-07-30)
This study describes a new construct, self-perceived communication confidence in confronting unethical behavior (SPC@CUB) as well as develops and validates an original 25-item instrument to measure this construct. This ...
Hearing race: the effects of race and accent on language attitudes and intergroup communication outcomes
(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 ...
“She takes rest as seriously as working:” How resilient professional caregivers think about and practice rest
(2023-05-12)
Do resilient employees need less rest? This study explored that question by investigating how resilient professional caregivers think about and practice rest. Analysis revealed that highly communicatively resilient ...
Examining the Mediating Role of Sexual Communication Discrepancies
(2023-05-12)
Past literature has revealed that sexual communication behaviors are important to one’s relationship, as such behaviors predict both relational and sexual satisfaction (Davis et al., 2006; Jones et al., 2018; Mallory, ...
Mythologies of the migrant caravans: religion, ideology and migration
(2022-12-15)
This research study is a semiotic and hermeneutic analysis of the tweets published on Twitter about the migratory caravan that occurred in 2018 under the hashtags #viacrucismigrante, #caravanamigrante #caravanscoming, and ...
“You know so and so is not right”: Black women leaders combating mental health stigma within Black churches
(2021-08)
Black communities are greatly affected by barriers that negatively impact their mental health. One of the significant barriers is that of stigma. Leaders of Black churches are in a position to shift the narrative. Black ...
Meta advice: Training organizational members to practice advice-seeking with their immediate supervisor
(2020-07-30)
This study explores whether individuals can be trained in the skill of advice-seeking and whether upward advice-seeking shapes the quality of leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships. LMX theory posit that, through a ...