Susan L Kline
Biographic Data
| ID | 653970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan L Kline |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kline |
| SIGNATURE | KLINE S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0967-9518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A cross-cultural alternative to demand-withdraw in interpersonal conflict
The Role of Social Support in Disarming the Effects of Racial Microaggressions
Racial microaggressions are a significant source of stress for people of color. This study identified two support message features for disarming the effects of racial microaggressions and tested reasons for their effectiveness. In a between-groups design, Black/African Americans ( n = 387), and Asian Americans ( n = 374) evaluated a support message crafted by a friend in response to one of six racial microaggressions. Participants perceived high …
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television
Recognizing the need to monitor the television depictions of older adults (OAs) we used social cognitive theory to study OA representations, stereotypes, and appearances in the understudied genre of Christmas television, specifically Hallmark Christmas movies (N = 50). We extended social cognitive theory to understand the effect of positive stereotypes on older adults’ appearances by employing interpersonal competence theory and coding OA interac…
Argumentation and Incivility in Online Forums
Conversation argument theory is used to analyze seven online discussions of colorism, a form of skin tone prejudice. Discussants’ comments (N = 587) expressed ad hominem acts (17%), reasoning activities (59%) and delimitors (e.g., addressed objections, 37%). Unlike general forums confrontation-initiated forums had more ad hominem acts. Posts with compared to posts without ad hominem acts had fewer reasoning activities and delimitors. General colo…
Emerging adults' preferred surnames
Surname practices in the U.S. are believed to reflect and reinforce the enduring patriarchal nature of U.S. society. Yet, some women and men reject patriarchal expectations. Calls for research accounting for such individual variations have been made. We examine the role that dispositional differences play in preferences for and reasoning about marital surnames in a sample of U.S. heterosexual women and men. With an online survey, we examined 799 …
Sexual Assault Portrayals in Hindi Cinema
The role of communication and cultural concepts in expectations about marriage
The Role of Relational Communication Characteristics and Filial Piety in Mate Preferences
Previous cross-cultural mate preference studies have employed researcher-generated lists of traits constructed from Western samples. Yet people from different cultures may prefer traits that do not appear on the lists. Unexamined, too, is the importance of relational communication characteristics and filial piety in partner preferences. To examine similarities and differences in mate preferences, two studies were conducted with 277 college studen…
Can I Make my Own Decision? A Cross-Cultural Study of Perceived Social Network Influence in Mate Selection
Two studies examined the comparative influence of network members on one's intention to marry and relational commitment among 616 college students in both China and the United States. Compared with U.S. participants, Chinese students believed that their dating partners would meet their filial piety beliefs, that such beliefs were more important in their potential decision to marrying their dating partners, and that they were more likely to comply…
Communicating love
The influence of comparative media use on acculturation, acculturative stress, and family relationships of Chinese international students
Married Individuals, Cohabiters, and Cohabiters Who Marry
Given that many cohabiting couples marry, our interest was in the changes that may accompany this shift in terms of relational and individual well-being. In addition, a comparison among three relationship groups was undertaken: those who entered directly into marriage, those who cohabitated and then married, and those who are long-term cohabiters. Also, comparisons across time were conducted. Our data were drawn from the 1987-1988 and 1992-1994 N…
The Gratification Niches of Personal E-mail and the Telephone
The theory of the niche predicts that a new medium will compete with established media for consumer satisfaction, consumer time, and / or consumer advertising dollars. Competition between e-mail and telephone use was measured in this study at the level of gratifications derived by consumers. Gratifications and gratification opportunities (consumers' beliefs that a medium allows them to obtain greater opportunities for satisfaction) were derived f…
Tracking the nation
The main focus of this article is the discursive analysis of internationalism. Within communication scholarship, the term `international' has primarily been treated as the sum total of already existing nation formations, each understood in terms of political, economic and administrative institutions and practices. This approach neglects the practices of signification through which international communities are constructed and legitimized. Analysi…
Women's Surnames
There has been little systematic empirical research to date concerning women's choices to change or keep their surnames upon marriage. This study of 110 women employs a dialectical perspective to explore women's decisions concerning their surnames. Specifically, we identify the issues involved in making this decision, examine associations between the surname chosen and relational qualities (satisfaction, love, commitment, intimacy) and interpret …
Gender Differences in Persuasive Message Practices
(1994). Gender Differences in Persuasive Message Practices. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 68-88
Construct Differentiation and Person-Centred Regulative Messages
This research examined the effect of interpersonal construct differentiation and legitimate authority on several facets of regulative message design: the number of message strategies persuaders use, the way in which persuaders conceive the persuadee's behaviour problem, and the way persuaders defend their proposals to their persuadees. In Study 1 undergraduates responded to two situations requiring them to regulate the behaviour of a subordinate.…
Analyzing a Speech Event
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
Jürgen Habermas
The development of persuasive communication strategies in kindergarteners through twelfth‐graders
Previous research has documented age‐related developments in the differentiation and abstractness of the system of interpersonal constructs employed in perceiving persons and the relationship of such developments to qualitative changes in persuasive strategies. This study extended the analysis of the interrelations among these developments within a broad age range. In addition to other findings, the quality of persuasive strategies was demonstrat…
Habermas’ theory of communication
The theory of communication proposed by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has important implications for argumentation scholars, contemporary rhetorical theorists, and students of human interaction processes. This essay explicates and evaluates essential features of Habermas’ theory and indicates ties among Habermas’ concepts and the work of several speech communication scholars
The development of persuasive communication strategies in kindergarteners through twelfth‐graders
Previous research has documented age‐related developments in the differentiation and abstractness of the system of interpersonal constructs employed in perceiving persons and the relationship of such developments to qualitative changes in persuasive strategies. This study extended the analysis of the interrelations among these developments within a broad age range. In addition to other findings, the quality of persuasive strategies was demonstrat…
Married Individuals, Cohabiters, and Cohabiters Who Marry
Given that many cohabiting couples marry, our interest was in the changes that may accompany this shift in terms of relational and individual well-being. In addition, a comparison among three relationship groups was undertaken: those who entered directly into marriage, those who cohabitated and then married, and those who are long-term cohabiters. Also, comparisons across time were conducted. Our data were drawn from the 1987-1988 and 1992-1994 N…
Women's Surnames
There has been little systematic empirical research to date concerning women's choices to change or keep their surnames upon marriage. This study of 110 women employs a dialectical perspective to explore women's decisions concerning their surnames. Specifically, we identify the issues involved in making this decision, examine associations between the surname chosen and relational qualities (satisfaction, love, commitment, intimacy) and interpret …
Can I Make my Own Decision? A Cross-Cultural Study of Perceived Social Network Influence in Mate Selection
Two studies examined the comparative influence of network members on one's intention to marry and relational commitment among 616 college students in both China and the United States. Compared with U.S. participants, Chinese students believed that their dating partners would meet their filial piety beliefs, that such beliefs were more important in their potential decision to marrying their dating partners, and that they were more likely to comply…
Communicating love
Sexual Assault Portrayals in Hindi Cinema
The role of communication and cultural concepts in expectations about marriage
Habermas’ theory of communication
The theory of communication proposed by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has important implications for argumentation scholars, contemporary rhetorical theorists, and students of human interaction processes. This essay explicates and evaluates essential features of Habermas’ theory and indicates ties among Habermas’ concepts and the work of several speech communication scholars
The influence of comparative media use on acculturation, acculturative stress, and family relationships of Chinese international students
Emerging adults' preferred surnames
Surname practices in the U.S. are believed to reflect and reinforce the enduring patriarchal nature of U.S. society. Yet, some women and men reject patriarchal expectations. Calls for research accounting for such individual variations have been made. We examine the role that dispositional differences play in preferences for and reasoning about marital surnames in a sample of U.S. heterosexual women and men. With an online survey, we examined 799 …
The Role of Relational Communication Characteristics and Filial Piety in Mate Preferences
Previous cross-cultural mate preference studies have employed researcher-generated lists of traits constructed from Western samples. Yet people from different cultures may prefer traits that do not appear on the lists. Unexamined, too, is the importance of relational communication characteristics and filial piety in partner preferences. To examine similarities and differences in mate preferences, two studies were conducted with 277 college studen…
Analyzing a Speech Event
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
Tracking the nation
The main focus of this article is the discursive analysis of internationalism. Within communication scholarship, the term `international' has primarily been treated as the sum total of already existing nation formations, each understood in terms of political, economic and administrative institutions and practices. This approach neglects the practices of signification through which international communities are constructed and legitimized. Analysi…
Gender Differences in Persuasive Message Practices
(1994). Gender Differences in Persuasive Message Practices. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 68-88
The development of persuasive communication strategies in kindergarteners through twelfth‐graders
Previous research has documented age‐related developments in the differentiation and abstractness of the system of interpersonal constructs employed in perceiving persons and the relationship of such developments to qualitative changes in persuasive strategies. This study extended the analysis of the interrelations among these developments within a broad age range. In addition to other findings, the quality of persuasive strategies was demonstrat…
Habermas’ theory of communication
The theory of communication proposed by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has important implications for argumentation scholars, contemporary rhetorical theorists, and students of human interaction processes. This essay explicates and evaluates essential features of Habermas’ theory and indicates ties among Habermas’ concepts and the work of several speech communication scholars
Jürgen Habermas
Analyzing a Speech Event
In the Winter of 1988, several professors were meeting weekly to discuss their various approaches to analyzing language use; one day, the discussion turned to the nine-minute exchange between Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather that had recently occurred on CBS News and was already occasioning much comment in the press. They agreed it was an exceptionally deviant event, more contest than cooperation, but to their surprise, they disagreed ra…
Construct Differentiation and Person-Centred Regulative Messages
This research examined the effect of interpersonal construct differentiation and legitimate authority on several facets of regulative message design: the number of message strategies persuaders use, the way in which persuaders conceive the persuadee's behaviour problem, and the way persuaders defend their proposals to their persuadees. In Study 1 undergraduates responded to two situations requiring them to regulate the behaviour of a subordinate.…
Gender Differences in Persuasive Message Practices
(1994). Gender Differences in Persuasive Message Practices. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 68-88
Women's Surnames
There has been little systematic empirical research to date concerning women's choices to change or keep their surnames upon marriage. This study of 110 women employs a dialectical perspective to explore women's decisions concerning their surnames. Specifically, we identify the issues involved in making this decision, examine associations between the surname chosen and relational qualities (satisfaction, love, commitment, intimacy) and interpret …
Tracking the nation
The main focus of this article is the discursive analysis of internationalism. Within communication scholarship, the term `international' has primarily been treated as the sum total of already existing nation formations, each understood in terms of political, economic and administrative institutions and practices. This approach neglects the practices of signification through which international communities are constructed and legitimized. Analysi…
The Gratification Niches of Personal E-mail and the Telephone
The theory of the niche predicts that a new medium will compete with established media for consumer satisfaction, consumer time, and / or consumer advertising dollars. Competition between e-mail and telephone use was measured in this study at the level of gratifications derived by consumers. Gratifications and gratification opportunities (consumers' beliefs that a medium allows them to obtain greater opportunities for satisfaction) were derived f…
Married Individuals, Cohabiters, and Cohabiters Who Marry
Given that many cohabiting couples marry, our interest was in the changes that may accompany this shift in terms of relational and individual well-being. In addition, a comparison among three relationship groups was undertaken: those who entered directly into marriage, those who cohabitated and then married, and those who are long-term cohabiters. Also, comparisons across time were conducted. Our data were drawn from the 1987-1988 and 1992-1994 N…
The influence of comparative media use on acculturation, acculturative stress, and family relationships of Chinese international students
Communicating love
The Role of Relational Communication Characteristics and Filial Piety in Mate Preferences
Previous cross-cultural mate preference studies have employed researcher-generated lists of traits constructed from Western samples. Yet people from different cultures may prefer traits that do not appear on the lists. Unexamined, too, is the importance of relational communication characteristics and filial piety in partner preferences. To examine similarities and differences in mate preferences, two studies were conducted with 277 college studen…
Can I Make my Own Decision? A Cross-Cultural Study of Perceived Social Network Influence in Mate Selection
Two studies examined the comparative influence of network members on one's intention to marry and relational commitment among 616 college students in both China and the United States. Compared with U.S. participants, Chinese students believed that their dating partners would meet their filial piety beliefs, that such beliefs were more important in their potential decision to marrying their dating partners, and that they were more likely to comply…
The role of communication and cultural concepts in expectations about marriage
Sexual Assault Portrayals in Hindi Cinema
Argumentation and Incivility in Online Forums
Conversation argument theory is used to analyze seven online discussions of colorism, a form of skin tone prejudice. Discussants’ comments (N = 587) expressed ad hominem acts (17%), reasoning activities (59%) and delimitors (e.g., addressed objections, 37%). Unlike general forums confrontation-initiated forums had more ad hominem acts. Posts with compared to posts without ad hominem acts had fewer reasoning activities and delimitors. General colo…
Emerging adults' preferred surnames
Surname practices in the U.S. are believed to reflect and reinforce the enduring patriarchal nature of U.S. society. Yet, some women and men reject patriarchal expectations. Calls for research accounting for such individual variations have been made. We examine the role that dispositional differences play in preferences for and reasoning about marital surnames in a sample of U.S. heterosexual women and men. With an online survey, we examined 799 …
Older Adult Representations, Stereotypes, and Interpersonal Competence in Christmas Television
Recognizing the need to monitor the television depictions of older adults (OAs) we used social cognitive theory to study OA representations, stereotypes, and appearances in the understudied genre of Christmas television, specifically Hallmark Christmas movies (N = 50). We extended social cognitive theory to understand the effect of positive stereotypes on older adults’ appearances by employing interpersonal competence theory and coding OA interac…
The Role of Social Support in Disarming the Effects of Racial Microaggressions
Racial microaggressions are a significant source of stress for people of color. This study identified two support message features for disarming the effects of racial microaggressions and tested reasons for their effectiveness. In a between-groups design, Black/African Americans ( n = 387), and Asian Americans ( n = 374) evaluated a support message crafted by a friend in response to one of six racial microaggressions. Participants perceived high …
A cross-cultural alternative to demand-withdraw in interpersonal conflict
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (7 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (4 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)