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Veteran contempt for civilian communication (VCCC): The development and validation of a scale for use with military veterans
(2020-07-30)
The purpose of this project was to develop and validate a measure of the amount of contempt military veterans feel toward civilian communication. Veterans may experience the moral emotion of contempt if they believe civilian ...
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 ...
An adjustment process and communication dilemma of people with disabilities in Japan.
(2002)
Throughout their lives, people make various kinds of adjustments. Most people are capable of making adjustments in order to survive challenging experiences. This fact is especially true for newly disabled individuals whose ...
Perceptions of Trust, Trust Building, and Maintenance between Japanese Expatriates and U.S. Host Nationals in a Multinational Corporation
(2022-08)
This study examined characteristics of trust in the workplace for Japanese expatriates and U.S. American host nationals, how they build and maintain trust in one another, as well as similarities and differences in such ...
Finding power in politeness: identifying competent and courageous social justice advocacy at work
(2022-12-16)
The workplace is rife with situations that require courage, from confronting unethical behavior to advocating for equality. However, employees often avoid voicing issues that are politically sensitive (Seeger, 2001, 2004) ...
Critical thinking: Implications for argumentativeness, verbal aggression and organizational leadership.
(2000)
This study was conducted to determine the relationships among critical thinking, the composite of critical thinking disposition and skill; argumentativeness, the tendency to approach or avoid controversial communication; ...
Indigenous Deliberation: Community Driven Research, Dual-Role Researchers, and Capacity Building in the Chickasaw Nation
(2023-05-12)
This study examines the experiences and roles of community researchers in The Chickasaw Nation’s Indigenous Deliberation. The 2-day deliberative gathering happened in 2018 which sets a precedence for continued Indigenous ...
Communicating Value-in-Diversity Campaigns: The Role of Reactance and Inoculation in Accomplishing Organizational Aims
(2008)
This investigation seeks to illuminate important considerations for carrying out value-in-diversity campaigns with the eventual aim of helping organizational messages be more persuasive, more influential, and less likely ...
Activity, certainty, optimism, and realism: The verbal style in televised presidential campaign commercials.
(1997)
Presidential campaign commercials have been analyzed to determine their effectiveness with respect to length and style. However, to this point, no study has attempted to count and categorize the words used in the commercials. ...
Navigating political identity in the big red dot: Political conversations among rural Oklahoman college students
(2021-08)
This study examines ways in which rural Oklahoman college students navigated their various layered identities in political conversations during a year fraught with political events, including those leading up to the 2020 ...