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Performing Forgiveness-Seeking: Do Magic Words Comfort?
(2023-12-15)
Forgiveness is a process culminating in relationship renegotiation and transformation following the offering and acceptance of amends. The culmination of the forgiveness process is facilitated by the acknowledgement of a ...
Fanship scale development
(2023-05-12)
Fanship is known as the connection an individual has with a fan object (e.g., celebrity, film, sports team, etc). Through this connection, individuals are able to build relationships, create social change, enact ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sojourners’ Identity Transformation As A Function Of Cross-Cultural Adaptation: A Communication Model Of Multicultural Identity Development
(2022-08-04)
This dissertation explored the multicultural identity(ies) development of sojourners as a function of their cross-cultural adaptation (CCA). Several theories of CCA, identity, and identity development are discussed and ...
New mothers' management of complaints in computer-mediated communication channels
(2022-12)
This study examines new mothers’ complaining behaviors in computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels and investigates mothers’ privacy management when self-disclose family issues online. This study includes data collected ...
An American Knightmare: Joker, Fandom, and Malicious Movie Meaning-Making
(2023-05-12)
This monograph concerns the long-standing communication problem of how individuals can identify and resist the influence of unethical public speakers. Scholarship on the issue of what Socrates & Plato called the “Evil ...