Laramie D Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 154332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laramie D Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laramie D |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8420-557X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
GRE Thresholds, Filtering, and Equity
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Communication PhD programs reconsidered the use of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) amid concerns about structural inequities in graduate admissions. We examined whether GRE requirements, particularly minimum score thresholds, may contribute to filtering, a mechanism by which standardized criteria disproportionately disadvantage some racial and ethnic groups. We conducted a content analysis of all U.S. Communica…
Audiences on the dark side
Romantic ideas and ideals in popular music
Persuasive Narratives About Osteoporosis
Narratives have been widely acknowledged as a powerful persuasion tool in health promotion and education. Recently, great efforts have been devoted to identifying message components and causal pathways that maximize a narrative’s persuasion power. Specifically, we investigated how narrator point of view and readers’ subjective relative risk moderate the effects of protagonist competence on intentions to adopt osteoporosis-prevention behaviors, an…
Uses and Grindifications
Grindr is a popular geospatial networking application (GSNA) among gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men (GBMSM); it can be used for variety of goals (e.g. finding dates, making friends, or coordinating a hookup) depending on the user's wants. These needs and wants, however, do not arise in a vacuum. Informed by uses and gratification (U&G) theory, this paper examined individual factors such as race, body image and depression as drivers of…
Effects of self-objectification on viewers’ narrative engagement
When do people believe, check, and share health rumors on social media? Effects of evidence type, health literacy, and health knowledge
Vaccine rumors on social media endanger public health. This study examined how evidence types influenced perceived persuasiveness and relevance and engagement intentions of vaccine rumors. We conducted a 2 (evidence type: anecdotes vs. anecdotal statistics) × 2 (stance: pro-vaccine rumor vs. anti-vaccine rumor) online experiment ( N = 551) and surveyed participants' health literacy and vaccine knowledge. Anecdotal statistics were perceived as mor…
Media Messages Depicting Partner Abundance Increase Intention to Commit Infidelity
Magical thinking and fans of fictional texts
If your girl only knew
Uncivil Reactions to Sexual Assault Online
Reports of sexual assault have been found to elicit online discourse incivility. The present study employs a computerized coding tool to examine linguistic characteristics of news media that are likely to influence discourse incivility—specifically, negative emotion, disagreement, and discussion about power relations. Additionally, machine learning was harnessed to measure the levels of comment toxicity, insult, profanity, threat, and identity at…
Sports Fans and Magical Thinking
Magical thinking describes beliefs and reasoning processes that defy generally accepted principles of logic and causality. Researchers have identified a link between strength of identification with a favorite sports team and superstition, an expression of magical thinking. Research on fans of fictional narratives has suggested magical thinking more broadly may play a role in being a fan. The authors posed the question, what is the link between sp…
Eudaimonia, hedonia, and fan behavior
How gay men discuss their bodies online
Research shows that gay men are highly susceptible to media effects on body image. A considerable amount of attention has been dedicated to the traditional media content that might have a negative effect on the way gay men perceive their bodies. However, far less attention has been given to the potentially harmful body-related content gay men are exposed to on the Internet. The present study is the first systematic content analysis of body-relate…
Risky Business
Your Cheating Cognitions
The current study examined how exposure to a depiction of sexual infidelity on television influenced women’s responses to hypothetical infidelity. In addition, we examined three individual factors as moderators for these effects: experience with infidelity, infidelity concern, and loyalty concern. In a laboratory experiment, young women were exposed to a media narrative featuring either a romantic relationship, the same relationship but with one …
Families that play together stay together
Video games have been a major form of people’s entertainment, and they have entered people’s family life. However, what we know about the effects of video games on family relationships is still rare. This study investigated the effects of video game co-playing among family members on family satisfaction and family closeness. In total, 361 parents recruited from Amazon Turk completed online questionnaires. The results showed that the more frequent…
Media violence and male body image
Touchy Subjects
Bones, body parts, and sex appeal
Men’s Sexual Selectivity, Romantic Confidence, and Gender Ratios in the Media
An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of media gender ratios on male audience members. One hundred thirty young adult men read a series of media narratives featuring either multiple men and a single woman or multiple women and a single man as well as a measure of endorsement of traditional masculinity and measures of romantic and sexual selectivity and confidence. Men who read the abundant partners narratives exhibited greater selecti…
Investigating fans of fictional texts
Two surveys were undertaken to explore the nature of fanship for fictional texts, specifically, to investigate the nature of fan behavior and factors associated with salience of fan identity. In Study 1, 162 fans of Star Trek were surveyed as they waited for the premiere of a Star Trek film (Paramou
Death and Television
Based on terror management theory, it was hypothesized that media choices may be affected by the salience of death-related thoughts. Three experiments with samples of undergraduate students were conducted to investigate whether such a process would affect preferences for law and justice television programming. In the first experiment (n = 132), individuals for whom mortality had been made salient through experimental induction preferred more prog…
Watching Aggressive, Attractive, Female Protagonists Shapes Gender Roles for Women Among Male and Female Undergraduate Viewers
The impact of exposure to media representations of aggressive, attractive, female protagonists on audiences' gender role expectations for women was explored through a laboratory experiment with 122 undergraduates from a large university on the west coast of the United States. Participants viewed a segment of a major Hollywood motion picture that featured a female protagonist who was either highly attractive or less attractive and either highly ag…
The Role of Lad Magazines in Priming Men's Chronic and Temporary Appearance-Related Schemata
We present a program of research investigating the effects of lad magazines on male body self-consciousness and appearance anxiety. Study 1, based on panel data from undergraduate men, showed that lad magazine exposure in Year 1 predicted body self-consciousness in Year 2. Study 2 was an experiment that showed that men assigned to view objectified women in lad magazines reported significantly higher levels of appearance anxiety and appearance-rel…
All for Him
Effects of visual and verbal sexual television content and perceived realism on attitudes and beliefs
Previous studies of the effects of sexual television content have resulted in mixed findings. Based on the information processing model of media effects, I proposed that the messages embodied n such content, the degree to which viewers perceive television content as realistic, and whether sexual content is conveyed using visual or verbal symbols may influence the nature or degree of such effects. I explored this possibility through an experiment …
The Role of Lad Magazines in Priming Men's Chronic and Temporary Appearance-Related Schemata
We present a program of research investigating the effects of lad magazines on male body self-consciousness and appearance anxiety. Study 1, based on panel data from undergraduate men, showed that lad magazine exposure in Year 1 predicted body self-consciousness in Year 2. Study 2 was an experiment that showed that men assigned to view objectified women in lad magazines reported significantly higher levels of appearance anxiety and appearance-rel…
College Men, Their Magazines, and Sex
Families that play together stay together
Video games have been a major form of people’s entertainment, and they have entered people’s family life. However, what we know about the effects of video games on family relationships is still rare. This study investigated the effects of video game co-playing among family members on family satisfaction and family closeness. In total, 361 parents recruited from Amazon Turk completed online questionnaires. The results showed that the more frequent…
Touchy Subjects
Investigating fans of fictional texts
Two surveys were undertaken to explore the nature of fanship for fictional texts, specifically, to investigate the nature of fan behavior and factors associated with salience of fan identity. In Study 1, 162 fans of Star Trek were surveyed as they waited for the premiere of a Star Trek film (Paramou
Self‐esteem, academic self‐concept, and aggression at school
The present study explores the relation between academic self‐concept, self‐esteem, and aggression at school. Longitudinal data from a racially diverse sample of middle‐school students were analyzed to explore how academic self‐concept influenced the likelihood of aggressing at school and whether high self‐concept exerted a different pattern of influence when threatened. Data include self‐reported academic self‐concept, school‐reported academic p…
When do people believe, check, and share health rumors on social media? Effects of evidence type, health literacy, and health knowledge
Vaccine rumors on social media endanger public health. This study examined how evidence types influenced perceived persuasiveness and relevance and engagement intentions of vaccine rumors. We conducted a 2 (evidence type: anecdotes vs. anecdotal statistics) × 2 (stance: pro-vaccine rumor vs. anti-vaccine rumor) online experiment ( N = 551) and surveyed participants' health literacy and vaccine knowledge. Anecdotal statistics were perceived as mor…
Death and Television
Based on terror management theory, it was hypothesized that media choices may be affected by the salience of death-related thoughts. Three experiments with samples of undergraduate students were conducted to investigate whether such a process would affect preferences for law and justice television programming. In the first experiment (n = 132), individuals for whom mortality had been made salient through experimental induction preferred more prog…
Watching Aggressive, Attractive, Female Protagonists Shapes Gender Roles for Women Among Male and Female Undergraduate Viewers
The impact of exposure to media representations of aggressive, attractive, female protagonists on audiences' gender role expectations for women was explored through a laboratory experiment with 122 undergraduates from a large university on the west coast of the United States. Participants viewed a segment of a major Hollywood motion picture that featured a female protagonist who was either highly attractive or less attractive and either highly ag…
Uses and Grindifications
Grindr is a popular geospatial networking application (GSNA) among gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men (GBMSM); it can be used for variety of goals (e.g. finding dates, making friends, or coordinating a hookup) depending on the user's wants. These needs and wants, however, do not arise in a vacuum. Informed by uses and gratification (U&G) theory, this paper examined individual factors such as race, body image and depression as drivers of…
Risky Business
Media violence and male body image
Men’s Sexual Selectivity, Romantic Confidence, and Gender Ratios in the Media
An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of media gender ratios on male audience members. One hundred thirty young adult men read a series of media narratives featuring either multiple men and a single woman or multiple women and a single man as well as a measure of endorsement of traditional masculinity and measures of romantic and sexual selectivity and confidence. Men who read the abundant partners narratives exhibited greater selecti…
Cads, Dads, and Magazines
The framing of sexual content in women's magazines reflect two different approaches to the selection of a romantic partner: the selection of (a) a stable partner for a long-term relationship vs. (b) an attractive rogue for a fling. The effects of such framing on women's partner preferences were explored in this laboratory experiment. Women with different relationship goals were randomly assigned to read an article from a women's lifestyle magazin…
All for Him
Effects of visual and verbal sexual television content and perceived realism on attitudes and beliefs
Previous studies of the effects of sexual television content have resulted in mixed findings. Based on the information processing model of media effects, I proposed that the messages embodied n such content, the degree to which viewers perceive television content as realistic, and whether sexual content is conveyed using visual or verbal symbols may influence the nature or degree of such effects. I explored this possibility through an experiment …
College Men, Their Magazines, and Sex
Self‐esteem, academic self‐concept, and aggression at school
The present study explores the relation between academic self‐concept, self‐esteem, and aggression at school. Longitudinal data from a racially diverse sample of middle‐school students were analyzed to explore how academic self‐concept influenced the likelihood of aggressing at school and whether high self‐concept exerted a different pattern of influence when threatened. Data include self‐reported academic self‐concept, school‐reported academic p…
Cads, Dads, and Magazines
The framing of sexual content in women's magazines reflect two different approaches to the selection of a romantic partner: the selection of (a) a stable partner for a long-term relationship vs. (b) an attractive rogue for a fling. The effects of such framing on women's partner preferences were explored in this laboratory experiment. Women with different relationship goals were randomly assigned to read an article from a women's lifestyle magazin…
The Role of Lad Magazines in Priming Men's Chronic and Temporary Appearance-Related Schemata
We present a program of research investigating the effects of lad magazines on male body self-consciousness and appearance anxiety. Study 1, based on panel data from undergraduate men, showed that lad magazine exposure in Year 1 predicted body self-consciousness in Year 2. Study 2 was an experiment that showed that men assigned to view objectified women in lad magazines reported significantly higher levels of appearance anxiety and appearance-rel…
Watching Aggressive, Attractive, Female Protagonists Shapes Gender Roles for Women Among Male and Female Undergraduate Viewers
The impact of exposure to media representations of aggressive, attractive, female protagonists on audiences' gender role expectations for women was explored through a laboratory experiment with 122 undergraduates from a large university on the west coast of the United States. Participants viewed a segment of a major Hollywood motion picture that featured a female protagonist who was either highly attractive or less attractive and either highly ag…
Death and Television
Based on terror management theory, it was hypothesized that media choices may be affected by the salience of death-related thoughts. Three experiments with samples of undergraduate students were conducted to investigate whether such a process would affect preferences for law and justice television programming. In the first experiment (n = 132), individuals for whom mortality had been made salient through experimental induction preferred more prog…
Investigating fans of fictional texts
Two surveys were undertaken to explore the nature of fanship for fictional texts, specifically, to investigate the nature of fan behavior and factors associated with salience of fan identity. In Study 1, 162 fans of Star Trek were surveyed as they waited for the premiere of a Star Trek film (Paramou
Bones, body parts, and sex appeal
Men’s Sexual Selectivity, Romantic Confidence, and Gender Ratios in the Media
An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of media gender ratios on male audience members. One hundred thirty young adult men read a series of media narratives featuring either multiple men and a single woman or multiple women and a single man as well as a measure of endorsement of traditional masculinity and measures of romantic and sexual selectivity and confidence. Men who read the abundant partners narratives exhibited greater selecti…
Media violence and male body image
Touchy Subjects
Families that play together stay together
Video games have been a major form of people’s entertainment, and they have entered people’s family life. However, what we know about the effects of video games on family relationships is still rare. This study investigated the effects of video game co-playing among family members on family satisfaction and family closeness. In total, 361 parents recruited from Amazon Turk completed online questionnaires. The results showed that the more frequent…
Your Cheating Cognitions
The current study examined how exposure to a depiction of sexual infidelity on television influenced women’s responses to hypothetical infidelity. In addition, we examined three individual factors as moderators for these effects: experience with infidelity, infidelity concern, and loyalty concern. In a laboratory experiment, young women were exposed to a media narrative featuring either a romantic relationship, the same relationship but with one …
Risky Business
Magical thinking and fans of fictional texts
If your girl only knew
Uncivil Reactions to Sexual Assault Online
Reports of sexual assault have been found to elicit online discourse incivility. The present study employs a computerized coding tool to examine linguistic characteristics of news media that are likely to influence discourse incivility—specifically, negative emotion, disagreement, and discussion about power relations. Additionally, machine learning was harnessed to measure the levels of comment toxicity, insult, profanity, threat, and identity at…
Sports Fans and Magical Thinking
Magical thinking describes beliefs and reasoning processes that defy generally accepted principles of logic and causality. Researchers have identified a link between strength of identification with a favorite sports team and superstition, an expression of magical thinking. Research on fans of fictional narratives has suggested magical thinking more broadly may play a role in being a fan. The authors posed the question, what is the link between sp…
Eudaimonia, hedonia, and fan behavior
How gay men discuss their bodies online
Research shows that gay men are highly susceptible to media effects on body image. A considerable amount of attention has been dedicated to the traditional media content that might have a negative effect on the way gay men perceive their bodies. However, far less attention has been given to the potentially harmful body-related content gay men are exposed to on the Internet. The present study is the first systematic content analysis of body-relate…
Media Messages Depicting Partner Abundance Increase Intention to Commit Infidelity
Effects of self-objectification on viewers’ narrative engagement
When do people believe, check, and share health rumors on social media? Effects of evidence type, health literacy, and health knowledge
Vaccine rumors on social media endanger public health. This study examined how evidence types influenced perceived persuasiveness and relevance and engagement intentions of vaccine rumors. We conducted a 2 (evidence type: anecdotes vs. anecdotal statistics) × 2 (stance: pro-vaccine rumor vs. anti-vaccine rumor) online experiment ( N = 551) and surveyed participants' health literacy and vaccine knowledge. Anecdotal statistics were perceived as mor…
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