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Aging with Disney: Depiction of gender and age in seven Disney animated fairy tales.
(1997)
Walt Disney Productions is considered by conventional wisdom to be synonymous with wholesome family entertainment in the global marketplace. Parents and well meaning adults may use what they consider to be Disney's wholesome ...
Efficacy of inoculation strategies in promoting resistance to political attack messages: Source credibility perspective.
(2003)
Taken together, the results of this dissertation indicate that inoculation is an effective resistance option for candidates in deflecting the influence of political attack messages delivered in both political advertising ...
Romantic partners' communication about their cross-sex friends: Dialectical tensions and management strategies.
(2000)
A mixed method approach (including diaries, questionnaires, and critical incident scenario discussions) was utilized for data collection. Of the ten married couples who participated in the study, only four couples successfully ...
The structuration of (non)deceptive workplace communication: Identifying the system and structure of organizational communication.
(1998)
This dissertation sought to investigate the structuration of (non)deceptive workplace communication. Anthony Giddens' (1984) structuration theory was utilized as a framework to guide an exploratory field study examining ...
Communication ecologies and contemporary African American families: A study of Black family death rituals.
(2001)
African American families are shown to include an extended group as family during the death ritual process, with a primary relationship among the family, church and funeral directors.
Patient preferences for physician communication behavior :
(1982)
This study investigated the preference of patients toward various types of physician-communicated message strategies involving treatment recommendation for obesity. Subjects included 303 in-clinic and non-clinic volunteers ...
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 analysis of Japanese TV commercials that feature foreign celebrities: A content analytic and interview approach.
(2005)
Overall, though Japan and the US are almost the same economically, the information flow is almost always one-way, from the US to Japan. In Japan, Western celebrities, Hollywood movies, and other American television programs, ...
The older mother-daughter relationship: The influence of caregiving beliefs on communicative behaviors prior to dependency.
(1998)
The goal of this study was to develop a richer understanding of the interaction between healthy mothers and their adult daughters prior to the mother's dependency. Thirty-six mother-daughter dyads discussed how they would ...
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 ...