Joseph Schmitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 164669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Schmitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1031-0806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Human handedness: A meta-analysis
Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise prevalence of left- and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and underpinned different fields of research, from cognitive neuroscience to human evolution, but reliable distributional estimates are still lacking. While hundreds of empirical studies have assessed handedness, a large-scale, comprehensive review of the prevalence of handedness…
Perceptions of political leaders: Demonstrating the effect of evolved psychological mechanisms on partisan identification using perceptions of political leaders
Partisan identification is a fundamental force in individual and mass political behavior around the world. Informed by scholarship on human sociality, coalitional psychology, and group behavior, this research argues that partisan identification, like many other group-based behaviors, is influenced by forces of evolution. If correct, then party identifiers should exhibit adaptive behaviors when making group-related political decisions. The authors…
Caveman Politics: Evolutionary Leadership Preferences and Physical Stature
Objective Following evolutionary psychology, we argue that physical stature matters in preferences regarding political leadership. Particularly, a preference for physically formidable leaders evolved to promote survivability in the violent human ancestral history. Methods We present two studies of original data to assess individual attitudes regarding the association between physical stature and political leadership. Analytical methods include or…
Net Gains in Political Participation: Secondary effects of Internet on community
Broad and diverse civic participation is essential to a democratic society. Studies of opinion leadership show that politically active citizens report that Internet information and communication helped increase civic involvement by enabling them to keep up more easily with news, interact with fellow citizens or engage in collective action. Yet information about less active citizens remains scant. Does the Internet influence the politically passiv…
Local Groups Online: Political Learning and Participation
Electronic Grassroots Organizing
Using principles derived from communication theory and social psychology, the authors develop and test propositions about grassroots organizing on electronic media. Three categories of users on a municipal electronic network were studied: city decision makers, activists who formed a grassroots group that developed and successfully lobbied city decision makers to establish a transitional center for the homeless, and a social group of users who lat…
Organizational Colleagues, Media Richness, and Electronic Mail: A Test of the Social Influence Model of Technology Use
The study investigated the effects of perceived media richness and social influences from organizational colleagues on the uses and assessments of electronic mail in a large research and development organization. A social network composed of an individual (ego), supervisor, and five close communication partners was used to model relational social influences. Responses reported by network members were incorporated into a structural equation system…
A Social Influence Model of Technology use
Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging
A Social Information Processing Model of Media Use in Organizations
This article presents a model of how social influence processes affect individuals' attitudes toward communication media and media use behavior. The model integrates two areas of research. One body of work posits that media use patterns are the outcome of objectively rational choices. These choices involve evaluating communication options and selecting an appropriate medium to match the communication requirements of the task. The second perspecti…
The Barber of Natchez
Human handedness: A meta-analysis
Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise prevalence of left- and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and underpinned different fields of research, from cognitive neuroscience to human evolution, but reliable distributional estimates are still lacking. While hundreds of empirical studies have assessed handedness, a large-scale, comprehensive review of the prevalence of handedness…
Caveman Politics: Evolutionary Leadership Preferences and Physical Stature
Objective Following evolutionary psychology, we argue that physical stature matters in preferences regarding political leadership. Particularly, a preference for physically formidable leaders evolved to promote survivability in the violent human ancestral history. Methods We present two studies of original data to assess individual attitudes regarding the association between physical stature and political leadership. Analytical methods include or…
Electronic Grassroots Organizing
Using principles derived from communication theory and social psychology, the authors develop and test propositions about grassroots organizing on electronic media. Three categories of users on a municipal electronic network were studied: city decision makers, activists who formed a grassroots group that developed and successfully lobbied city decision makers to establish a transitional center for the homeless, and a social group of users who lat…
The Barber of Natchez
A Social Information Processing Model of Media Use in Organizations
This article presents a model of how social influence processes affect individuals' attitudes toward communication media and media use behavior. The model integrates two areas of research. One body of work posits that media use patterns are the outcome of objectively rational choices. These choices involve evaluating communication options and selecting an appropriate medium to match the communication requirements of the task. The second perspecti…
A Social Influence Model of Technology use
Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging
Organizational Colleagues, Media Richness, and Electronic Mail: A Test of the Social Influence Model of Technology Use
The study investigated the effects of perceived media richness and social influences from organizational colleagues on the uses and assessments of electronic mail in a large research and development organization. A social network composed of an individual (ego), supervisor, and five close communication partners was used to model relational social influences. Responses reported by network members were incorporated into a structural equation system…
Electronic Grassroots Organizing
Using principles derived from communication theory and social psychology, the authors develop and test propositions about grassroots organizing on electronic media. Three categories of users on a municipal electronic network were studied: city decision makers, activists who formed a grassroots group that developed and successfully lobbied city decision makers to establish a transitional center for the homeless, and a social group of users who lat…
Local Groups Online: Political Learning and Participation
Net Gains in Political Participation: Secondary effects of Internet on community
Broad and diverse civic participation is essential to a democratic society. Studies of opinion leadership show that politically active citizens report that Internet information and communication helped increase civic involvement by enabling them to keep up more easily with news, interact with fellow citizens or engage in collective action. Yet information about less active citizens remains scant. Does the Internet influence the politically passiv…
Caveman Politics: Evolutionary Leadership Preferences and Physical Stature
Objective Following evolutionary psychology, we argue that physical stature matters in preferences regarding political leadership. Particularly, a preference for physically formidable leaders evolved to promote survivability in the violent human ancestral history. Methods We present two studies of original data to assess individual attitudes regarding the association between physical stature and political leadership. Analytical methods include or…
Perceptions of political leaders: Demonstrating the effect of evolved psychological mechanisms on partisan identification using perceptions of political leaders
Partisan identification is a fundamental force in individual and mass political behavior around the world. Informed by scholarship on human sociality, coalitional psychology, and group behavior, this research argues that partisan identification, like many other group-based behaviors, is influenced by forces of evolution. If correct, then party identifiers should exhibit adaptive behaviors when making group-related political decisions. The authors…
Human handedness: A meta-analysis
Across time and place, right hand preference has been the norm, but what is the precise prevalence of left- and right-handedness? Frequency of left-handedness has shaped and underpinned different fields of research, from cognitive neuroscience to human evolution, but reliable distributional estimates are still lacking. While hundreds of empirical studies have assessed handedness, a large-scale, comprehensive review of the prevalence of handedness…
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 works) · Knowledge Management and Sharing (3 works) · Law (3 works)