Vincent R Waldron
Biographic Data
| ID | 167716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent R Waldron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent R |
| FAMILY NAME | Waldron |
| SIGNATURE | WALDRON V R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2899-7119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“We Are All in This Together”: Which Memorable Moral Messages Guided Student Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed lessons about the moral bases of student compliance with pandemic health messaging, which is a vital concern for educational institutions where students learn and live in close proximity. Existing theoretical and empirical work suggests that audiences may be receptive when prescribed behavior aligns with memorable moral messages (MMM) received from family members or other valued sources. We report the results of…
Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role
Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads
Stepfamilies are inherently complex family systems, marked by change, flexible boundaries, and early conflict. But the developmental pathways by which long-term stepparent relationships become positive require more study. We interviewed 38 stepchildren who had reached adulthood, to understand how their relationships with a stepparent became positive. Four relational trajectories defined these positive relationships: punctuated, consistent positiv…
Setting the Agenda: Finding Fathers in Family Communication Scholarship
Despite its consequential role, fatherhood is relatively underrepresented in recent family communication scholarship. We use Brofenbrenner’ssocio/bio/ecological model to synthesize existing studies and identify research opportunities. Much existing work has occurred at the level of microsystem, where research makes clear that father-offspring communication has short-term term effects on the relational satisfaction of family members and long-term …
Steeling against Midlife Adversity: Resilience-Promoting Practices of Long-Term Romantic Pairs
Midlife is a time of both turbulence and stability for long-term romantic couples, a period that may bring adversity in the form of changed roles, distressed adult offspring, health conditions, and caregiving for parents. We draw on Afifi’s theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) to interpret interview data collected from 265 couples. Participants illustrated TRRL by describing familiar resource management practices, such sharing quality …
Feeling Warmth and Close to Her”: Communication and Resilience Reflected in Turning Points in Positive Adult Stepchild–Stepparent Relationships
With the goal of understanding the development of positive stepchild–stepparent relationships, the researchers focused on turning points characterizing the interaction of adult stepchildren who have a positive bond with a stepparent. Engaging a relational turning points perspective, 38 stepchildren (males and females, ages 25 to 52 years old) who reported a positive stepparent relationship were interviewed, generating 269 turning points which wer…
How Parents Communicate Right and Wrong: A Study of Memorable Moral Messages Recalled by Emerging Adults
The family communication process through which emerging adults form their moral outlook is examined through the lenses of Negotiated Morality Theory and Vygotskian Developmental Theory. Analyses were performed on the context, content, and type of 470 memorable messages reported by 303 emerging adults. Results indicated that messages were spontaneously delivered rather than planned, communicated at home, and received at around 16 years of age. Mes…
Turning points in long distance grandparent–grandchild relationships
Forgiveness: Communicative Implications for Social Relationships
In the last decade, psychologists, philosophers, and, most recently, communication scholars generated a significant body of research focusing on responses to relational injury. Forgiveness is one such response that has profound possibilities for affecting relationships of couples, groups, families, organizations, and nations. The following essay overviews the extant literature on forgiveness, from historical understandings to more recent social s…
Forgiving communication as a response to relational transgressions
Researchers and therapists have argued that forgiveness is essential to the process of relationship reconciliation. This project describes five types of forgiving communication reported by 187 adult members of romantic relationships. We labeled these forms of forgiving communication conditional, minimizing, discussion, nonverbal display, and explicit. As expected, forgivers recalled using more conditional and less minimizing types of communicatio…
Mindfulness and Interpersonal Communication
Many social problems can be traced to interpersonal communicationdifficulties, just as many proposed interventions to solve social ills also depend on effective interpersonal communication. This article examines three potential relationships between states of mind and social interaction followed by illustrations from research related to five exemplar social issues—developing effective programs for solving workplace communicationproblems, training…
Communication of Social Support in Computer-Mediated Groups for People With Disabilities
This study documented the types and extent of social support messages exchanged by persons with disabilities who participated in a computer-based support group. A modified version of Cutrona & Suhr's (1992) social support category system was used to code 1,472 support messages. The largest percentage of these messages offered emotional and informational support, whereas network support and tangible assistance were least frequently offered. It app…
Communication Practices of Followers, Members, and Protégés: The Case of Upward Influence Tactics
Changing forms of organization and evolving conceptions of leadership have created the potential for followers to exert increased influence in American organizations. This chapter reviews research from a variety of disciplines on the nature of upward influence messages. Related forms of communication, such as feedback seeking, dissent, and relationship maintenance, are also discussed. Studies of the individual, relational, and organizational ante…
A Formal Model for the Study of Communication Support Systems
The lack of conceptual frameworks available for integrating research on organizational computer-based communication technologies is documented. An integrated model for studying communication support phenomena in organizations is formalized from a knowledge management perspective using set-theoretic notation. Key constructs for understanding and exploring communication support systems are identified, such as knowledge workers, knowledge management…
Is the “Golden Age of Cognition” Losing Its Luster? Toward a Requirement-Centered Perspective
(1995). Is the “Golden Age of Cognition” Losing Its Luster? Toward a Requirement-Centered Perspective. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 18, Communication Yearbook 18, pp. 188-197
Once More, With Feeling: Reconsidering the Role of Emotion in Work
The role of emotion in the workplace has been the subject of a series of provocative studies (Hochschild, 1983; Van Maanen & Kunda, 1989). This essay locates research on organizational emotion in the larger traditions of emotion research and argues that the communicative aspects of emotion have been understudied. Existing research on the subject is divided into three themes: the emotional labor and attendant psychological costs that characterize …
Interpersonal Construct Differentiation and Conversational Planning An Examination of Two Cognitive Accounts for the Production of Competent Verbal Disagreement Tactics
This study examines three cognition-based theoretical explanations for variations in verbal disagreement tactics. The cognitive requirements of competent message production in conflict situations are examined first. Then the relative success of (a) an individual difference explanation (based on constructivist logic), (b) a situated cognition explanation (based on planning theory), and (c) a hybrid explanation in accounting for the use of competen…
Assessing Conversational Cognition Levels of Cognitive Theory and Associated Methodological Requirements
Journal Article Assessing Conversational Cognition: Levels of Cognitive Theory and Associated Methodological Requirements Get access Vincent R. Waldron, Vincent R. Waldron Assistant Professor 1Communication in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky in Lexington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donald J. Cegala Donald J. Cegala Professor of Communication 2Department of Communication at…
Achieving communication goals in superior‐subordinate relationships: The multi‐functionality of upward maintenance tactics
Maintenance of the supervisory relationship is arguably the most important of the communication objectives pursued by subordinates. Maintenance communication creates the context in which other goal‐oriented messages are constructed by the subordinate and evaluated by the supervisor. In this study, an inductive procedure was used to identify upward maintenance tactics reportedly used by subordinates. Subsequent factor analysis using a sample of 51…
Constrained rationality: Situational influences on information acquisition plans and tactics
It is argued that the relative influence of automatic, knowledge‐based, and creative planning processes on conversational behavior should vary as a function of planning constraints. The effects of two potential constraints, instrumental goal priority and instrumental goal complexity, on cognitive and tactical indices of planning were assessed. As expected, increased instrumental goal priority resulted in reduced creative planning, as indicated by…
Cognitive and Tactical Dimensions of Conversational Goal Management
Rationalist depictions of conversational behaviour assume that communicators engage in a good deal of goal-directed thinking and that such thinking guides message production. The current study used a cued-recall method (Cegala et al., 1988) to investigate the composition of conversational cognition and to investigate the relationship between cognitions and tactics. Results indicated that goal-oriented cognition was prominent but that non-strategi…
Actor-Observer Differences in Conversational Memory
The effects of participant and observer perspectives on the quantity and quality of information recalled from conversations were examined. The observers were exposed to the conversation through videotape, audiotape, or transcript. No differences were found between participants and observers on measures of recall quantity. However, analysis of the composition of recall protocols indicated that participants reported more thematic and evaluative sta…
Forgiving communication as a response to relational transgressions
Researchers and therapists have argued that forgiveness is essential to the process of relationship reconciliation. This project describes five types of forgiving communication reported by 187 adult members of romantic relationships. We labeled these forms of forgiving communication conditional, minimizing, discussion, nonverbal display, and explicit. As expected, forgivers recalled using more conditional and less minimizing types of communicatio…
Assessing Conversational Cognition Levels of Cognitive Theory and Associated Methodological Requirements
Journal Article Assessing Conversational Cognition: Levels of Cognitive Theory and Associated Methodological Requirements Get access Vincent R. Waldron, Vincent R. Waldron Assistant Professor 1Communication in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky in Lexington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donald J. Cegala Donald J. Cegala Professor of Communication 2Department of Communication at…
Interpersonal Construct Differentiation and Conversational Planning An Examination of Two Cognitive Accounts for the Production of Competent Verbal Disagreement Tactics
This study examines three cognition-based theoretical explanations for variations in verbal disagreement tactics. The cognitive requirements of competent message production in conflict situations are examined first. Then the relative success of (a) an individual difference explanation (based on constructivist logic), (b) a situated cognition explanation (based on planning theory), and (c) a hybrid explanation in accounting for the use of competen…
Constrained rationality: Situational influences on information acquisition plans and tactics
It is argued that the relative influence of automatic, knowledge‐based, and creative planning processes on conversational behavior should vary as a function of planning constraints. The effects of two potential constraints, instrumental goal priority and instrumental goal complexity, on cognitive and tactical indices of planning were assessed. As expected, increased instrumental goal priority resulted in reduced creative planning, as indicated by…
Turning points in long distance grandparent–grandchild relationships
Actor-Observer Differences in Conversational Memory
The effects of participant and observer perspectives on the quantity and quality of information recalled from conversations were examined. The observers were exposed to the conversation through videotape, audiotape, or transcript. No differences were found between participants and observers on measures of recall quantity. However, analysis of the composition of recall protocols indicated that participants reported more thematic and evaluative sta…
Achieving communication goals in superior‐subordinate relationships: The multi‐functionality of upward maintenance tactics
Maintenance of the supervisory relationship is arguably the most important of the communication objectives pursued by subordinates. Maintenance communication creates the context in which other goal‐oriented messages are constructed by the subordinate and evaluated by the supervisor. In this study, an inductive procedure was used to identify upward maintenance tactics reportedly used by subordinates. Subsequent factor analysis using a sample of 51…
Feeling Warmth and Close to Her”: Communication and Resilience Reflected in Turning Points in Positive Adult Stepchild–Stepparent Relationships
With the goal of understanding the development of positive stepchild–stepparent relationships, the researchers focused on turning points characterizing the interaction of adult stepchildren who have a positive bond with a stepparent. Engaging a relational turning points perspective, 38 stepchildren (males and females, ages 25 to 52 years old) who reported a positive stepparent relationship were interviewed, generating 269 turning points which wer…
Cognitive and Tactical Dimensions of Conversational Goal Management
Rationalist depictions of conversational behaviour assume that communicators engage in a good deal of goal-directed thinking and that such thinking guides message production. The current study used a cued-recall method (Cegala et al., 1988) to investigate the composition of conversational cognition and to investigate the relationship between cognitions and tactics. Results indicated that goal-oriented cognition was prominent but that non-strategi…
Mindfulness and Interpersonal Communication
Many social problems can be traced to interpersonal communicationdifficulties, just as many proposed interventions to solve social ills also depend on effective interpersonal communication. This article examines three potential relationships between states of mind and social interaction followed by illustrations from research related to five exemplar social issues—developing effective programs for solving workplace communicationproblems, training…
Once More, With Feeling: Reconsidering the Role of Emotion in Work
The role of emotion in the workplace has been the subject of a series of provocative studies (Hochschild, 1983; Van Maanen & Kunda, 1989). This essay locates research on organizational emotion in the larger traditions of emotion research and argues that the communicative aspects of emotion have been understudied. Existing research on the subject is divided into three themes: the emotional labor and attendant psychological costs that characterize …
How Parents Communicate Right and Wrong: A Study of Memorable Moral Messages Recalled by Emerging Adults
The family communication process through which emerging adults form their moral outlook is examined through the lenses of Negotiated Morality Theory and Vygotskian Developmental Theory. Analyses were performed on the context, content, and type of 470 memorable messages reported by 303 emerging adults. Results indicated that messages were spontaneously delivered rather than planned, communicated at home, and received at around 16 years of age. Mes…
Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads
Stepfamilies are inherently complex family systems, marked by change, flexible boundaries, and early conflict. But the developmental pathways by which long-term stepparent relationships become positive require more study. We interviewed 38 stepchildren who had reached adulthood, to understand how their relationships with a stepparent became positive. Four relational trajectories defined these positive relationships: punctuated, consistent positiv…
Steeling against Midlife Adversity: Resilience-Promoting Practices of Long-Term Romantic Pairs
Midlife is a time of both turbulence and stability for long-term romantic couples, a period that may bring adversity in the form of changed roles, distressed adult offspring, health conditions, and caregiving for parents. We draw on Afifi’s theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) to interpret interview data collected from 265 couples. Participants illustrated TRRL by describing familiar resource management practices, such sharing quality …
Communication Practices of Followers, Members, and Protégés: The Case of Upward Influence Tactics
Changing forms of organization and evolving conceptions of leadership have created the potential for followers to exert increased influence in American organizations. This chapter reviews research from a variety of disciplines on the nature of upward influence messages. Related forms of communication, such as feedback seeking, dissent, and relationship maintenance, are also discussed. Studies of the individual, relational, and organizational ante…
A Formal Model for the Study of Communication Support Systems
The lack of conceptual frameworks available for integrating research on organizational computer-based communication technologies is documented. An integrated model for studying communication support phenomena in organizations is formalized from a knowledge management perspective using set-theoretic notation. Key constructs for understanding and exploring communication support systems are identified, such as knowledge workers, knowledge management…
Actor-Observer Differences in Conversational Memory
The effects of participant and observer perspectives on the quantity and quality of information recalled from conversations were examined. The observers were exposed to the conversation through videotape, audiotape, or transcript. No differences were found between participants and observers on measures of recall quantity. However, analysis of the composition of recall protocols indicated that participants reported more thematic and evaluative sta…
Constrained rationality: Situational influences on information acquisition plans and tactics
It is argued that the relative influence of automatic, knowledge‐based, and creative planning processes on conversational behavior should vary as a function of planning constraints. The effects of two potential constraints, instrumental goal priority and instrumental goal complexity, on cognitive and tactical indices of planning were assessed. As expected, increased instrumental goal priority resulted in reduced creative planning, as indicated by…
Cognitive and Tactical Dimensions of Conversational Goal Management
Rationalist depictions of conversational behaviour assume that communicators engage in a good deal of goal-directed thinking and that such thinking guides message production. The current study used a cued-recall method (Cegala et al., 1988) to investigate the composition of conversational cognition and to investigate the relationship between cognitions and tactics. Results indicated that goal-oriented cognition was prominent but that non-strategi…
Achieving communication goals in superior‐subordinate relationships: The multi‐functionality of upward maintenance tactics
Maintenance of the supervisory relationship is arguably the most important of the communication objectives pursued by subordinates. Maintenance communication creates the context in which other goal‐oriented messages are constructed by the subordinate and evaluated by the supervisor. In this study, an inductive procedure was used to identify upward maintenance tactics reportedly used by subordinates. Subsequent factor analysis using a sample of 51…
Assessing Conversational Cognition Levels of Cognitive Theory and Associated Methodological Requirements
Journal Article Assessing Conversational Cognition: Levels of Cognitive Theory and Associated Methodological Requirements Get access Vincent R. Waldron, Vincent R. Waldron Assistant Professor 1Communication in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky in Lexington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donald J. Cegala Donald J. Cegala Professor of Communication 2Department of Communication at…
Once More, With Feeling: Reconsidering the Role of Emotion in Work
The role of emotion in the workplace has been the subject of a series of provocative studies (Hochschild, 1983; Van Maanen & Kunda, 1989). This essay locates research on organizational emotion in the larger traditions of emotion research and argues that the communicative aspects of emotion have been understudied. Existing research on the subject is divided into three themes: the emotional labor and attendant psychological costs that characterize …
Interpersonal Construct Differentiation and Conversational Planning An Examination of Two Cognitive Accounts for the Production of Competent Verbal Disagreement Tactics
This study examines three cognition-based theoretical explanations for variations in verbal disagreement tactics. The cognitive requirements of competent message production in conflict situations are examined first. Then the relative success of (a) an individual difference explanation (based on constructivist logic), (b) a situated cognition explanation (based on planning theory), and (c) a hybrid explanation in accounting for the use of competen…
Is the “Golden Age of Cognition” Losing Its Luster? Toward a Requirement-Centered Perspective
(1995). Is the “Golden Age of Cognition” Losing Its Luster? Toward a Requirement-Centered Perspective. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 18, Communication Yearbook 18, pp. 188-197
A Formal Model for the Study of Communication Support Systems
The lack of conceptual frameworks available for integrating research on organizational computer-based communication technologies is documented. An integrated model for studying communication support phenomena in organizations is formalized from a knowledge management perspective using set-theoretic notation. Key constructs for understanding and exploring communication support systems are identified, such as knowledge workers, knowledge management…
Communication of Social Support in Computer-Mediated Groups for People With Disabilities
This study documented the types and extent of social support messages exchanged by persons with disabilities who participated in a computer-based support group. A modified version of Cutrona & Suhr's (1992) social support category system was used to code 1,472 support messages. The largest percentage of these messages offered emotional and informational support, whereas network support and tangible assistance were least frequently offered. It app…
Communication Practices of Followers, Members, and Protégés: The Case of Upward Influence Tactics
Changing forms of organization and evolving conceptions of leadership have created the potential for followers to exert increased influence in American organizations. This chapter reviews research from a variety of disciplines on the nature of upward influence messages. Related forms of communication, such as feedback seeking, dissent, and relationship maintenance, are also discussed. Studies of the individual, relational, and organizational ante…
Mindfulness and Interpersonal Communication
Many social problems can be traced to interpersonal communicationdifficulties, just as many proposed interventions to solve social ills also depend on effective interpersonal communication. This article examines three potential relationships between states of mind and social interaction followed by illustrations from research related to five exemplar social issues—developing effective programs for solving workplace communicationproblems, training…
Forgiving communication as a response to relational transgressions
Researchers and therapists have argued that forgiveness is essential to the process of relationship reconciliation. This project describes five types of forgiving communication reported by 187 adult members of romantic relationships. We labeled these forms of forgiving communication conditional, minimizing, discussion, nonverbal display, and explicit. As expected, forgivers recalled using more conditional and less minimizing types of communicatio…
Forgiveness: Communicative Implications for Social Relationships
In the last decade, psychologists, philosophers, and, most recently, communication scholars generated a significant body of research focusing on responses to relational injury. Forgiveness is one such response that has profound possibilities for affecting relationships of couples, groups, families, organizations, and nations. The following essay overviews the extant literature on forgiveness, from historical understandings to more recent social s…
How Parents Communicate Right and Wrong: A Study of Memorable Moral Messages Recalled by Emerging Adults
The family communication process through which emerging adults form their moral outlook is examined through the lenses of Negotiated Morality Theory and Vygotskian Developmental Theory. Analyses were performed on the context, content, and type of 470 memorable messages reported by 303 emerging adults. Results indicated that messages were spontaneously delivered rather than planned, communicated at home, and received at around 16 years of age. Mes…
Turning points in long distance grandparent–grandchild relationships
Feeling Warmth and Close to Her”: Communication and Resilience Reflected in Turning Points in Positive Adult Stepchild–Stepparent Relationships
With the goal of understanding the development of positive stepchild–stepparent relationships, the researchers focused on turning points characterizing the interaction of adult stepchildren who have a positive bond with a stepparent. Engaging a relational turning points perspective, 38 stepchildren (males and females, ages 25 to 52 years old) who reported a positive stepparent relationship were interviewed, generating 269 turning points which wer…
Steeling against Midlife Adversity: Resilience-Promoting Practices of Long-Term Romantic Pairs
Midlife is a time of both turbulence and stability for long-term romantic couples, a period that may bring adversity in the form of changed roles, distressed adult offspring, health conditions, and caregiving for parents. We draw on Afifi’s theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) to interpret interview data collected from 265 couples. Participants illustrated TRRL by describing familiar resource management practices, such sharing quality …
Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads
Stepfamilies are inherently complex family systems, marked by change, flexible boundaries, and early conflict. But the developmental pathways by which long-term stepparent relationships become positive require more study. We interviewed 38 stepchildren who had reached adulthood, to understand how their relationships with a stepparent became positive. Four relational trajectories defined these positive relationships: punctuated, consistent positiv…
Setting the Agenda: Finding Fathers in Family Communication Scholarship
Despite its consequential role, fatherhood is relatively underrepresented in recent family communication scholarship. We use Brofenbrenner’ssocio/bio/ecological model to synthesize existing studies and identify research opportunities. Much existing work has occurred at the level of microsystem, where research makes clear that father-offspring communication has short-term term effects on the relational satisfaction of family members and long-term …
Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role
“We Are All in This Together”: Which Memorable Moral Messages Guided Student Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed lessons about the moral bases of student compliance with pandemic health messaging, which is a vital concern for educational institutions where students learn and live in close proximity. Existing theoretical and empirical work suggests that audiences may be receptive when prescribed behavior aligns with memorable moral messages (MMM) received from family members or other valued sources. We report the results of…
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