Jesse G Delia
Biographic Data
| ID | 204677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse G Delia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse G |
| FAMILY NAME | Delia |
| SIGNATURE | DELIA J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1843-8495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 283 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Campus sustainability and natural area stewardship: Student Involvement in Adaptive Comanagement
Krasny, M. E., and J. Delia. 2014. Campus sustainability and natural area stewardship: student involvement in adaptive comanagement. Ecology and Society 19(3): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06787-190327
Interpersonal Cognition, Message Goals, and Organization of Communication: Recent Constructivist Research
Social Psychology, Competency, and Individual Differences in Communicative Action
The generativist conception of linguistic competence and its idealisa tion of a homogeneous speech community must be overcome if analyses of individual differences in language and communication are to receive the attention they merit. Development of a qualitative, multiple competencies conception of linguistic and communicative abilities offers promise of transcending the limita tions of the generativist approach while maintaining its concern wit…
Construct differentiation and the relationship of attitudes and behavioral intentions
Subjects differing in interpersonal construct differentiation completed both an attitude measure and a behavioral intentions measure (in which subjects’ behavioral intentions in each of nine attitude‐relevant interpersonal situations were assessed) toward a subject‐selected target person. While the overall correlation between attitude and the behavioral intentions index was high (r = .85,), low‐differentiation subjects displayed significantly gre…
Construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity as predictors of the number and strategic adaptation of arguments and appeals in a persuasive message
Subjects differing in construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity wrote persuasive messages directed at a fictitious target person and gave written justifications for each argument or appeal used in their messages. Messages were scored for number of appeals used and appeal justifications were scored for the degree of strategic adaptation to the message target they reflected. Construct comprehensiveness correlated positively and significa…
The content of informal conversations as a function of interactants' interpersonal cognitive complexity
Subjects varying in level of interpersonal cognitive complexity engaged in ten minutes of unstructured informal conversation. These conversations were analyzed for the extent to which the talk concerned the participants themselves, the immediate context of interaction, or topics external to the immediate setting. Presumably because of their spontaneous cognitive organization of the encounter more in terms of person‐relevant dimensions, a higher p…
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…
Topoiand rhetorical competence
This essay argues that the speech communication scholar can make genuinely original contributions to the general study of communicative development, particularly to the investigation of strategic communication. The thesis advanced is that speech communication scholars need to return their attention to message strategies, but within the framework of the underlying cognitive and cultural structures through which they are created
Construct Individuality, Cognitive Complexity, and the Formation and Remembering of Interpersonal Impressions
Subjects differing in cognitive complexity formed impressions from either (1) three positive and three negative experimenter-selected traits, (2) three traits of each evaluation generated by the subject in a preliminary session, or (3) three experimenter-selected traits of one valence and three subject-generated traits of the opposite valence. Additionally, subjects reconstructed their impressions from memory after eight weeks. Impressions were d…
The relation of theory and analysis in explanations of belief salience: Conditioning, displacement, and constructivist accounts
According a central role to context‐relevant beliefs in the operation of attitudinal saliency is advocated through contrasting Delia et al.’s cognitive‐constructivist analysis with Cronen and Conville's operant conditioning and aggression displacement accounts
Constructivism and the study of human communication
(1977). Constructivism and the study of human communication. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 66-83
Cognitive Complexity, Social Perspective-Taking, and Functional Persuasive Skills in Second- To Ninth-Grade Children
The assumption underlying this research is that effectiveness in communication involves social perception processes. Specifically, it was predicted that effectiveness in adapting persuasive messages to recipients would be related to the complexity of the interpersonal construct system (cognitive complexity) and to the ability to represent the perspectives of others (social perspective-taking). Fifty-eight children ranging from second through nint…
The Development of Functional Persuasive Skills in Childhood and Early Adolescence
Cognitive complexity and social perspective‐taking
The relationship between an individual's social perspective‐taking capacity and the complexity of that individual's dimensions for construing the behavior and character of others was examined within a general constructivist framework. A significant correlation was found supporting the hypothesis that the more differentiated the construction system of the individual the better he/she should be able to construe the perspectives of others in social …
Change of meaning processes in impression formation
Subjects formed an impression of an unknown other described by the traits intelligent, clean, efficient, level‐headed, punctual, neat, ambitious, and self‐disciplined. Even though each of these traits is positive in normative evaluation, an overall negative evaluation of the stimulus person resulted. However, when two traits highly discrepant from the descriptive meaning of these eight traits (easy‐going and sensitive) were substituted for the tw…
A constructivist analysis of the concept of credibility
(1976). A constructivist analysis of the concept of credibility. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 361-375
Effects of cognitive complexity and of perceiver's set upon the organization of impressions
Social schemas, cognitive complexity, and the learning of social structures 1
Dialects and the effects of stereotypes on interpersonal attraction and cognitive processes in impression formation
Two studies examined the nature of regional dialect cued stereotypes and their effect upon the formation of an impression of an unknown other. The studies showed (1) that subjects rely upon dialect as a cue to qualities of the other which facilitate his sociological placement, (2) that initial evaluative orientations based upon such stereotypes are quite tentative and change when subsequent information concerning the other's character is acquired…
The logic fallacy, cognitive theory, and the enthymeme: A search for the foundations of reasoned discourse
Topoiand rhetorical competence
This essay argues that the speech communication scholar can make genuinely original contributions to the general study of communicative development, particularly to the investigation of strategic communication. The thesis advanced is that speech communication scholars need to return their attention to message strategies, but within the framework of the underlying cognitive and cultural structures through which they are created
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…
Cognitive Complexity, Social Perspective-Taking, and Functional Persuasive Skills in Second- To Ninth-Grade Children
The assumption underlying this research is that effectiveness in communication involves social perception processes. Specifically, it was predicted that effectiveness in adapting persuasive messages to recipients would be related to the complexity of the interpersonal construct system (cognitive complexity) and to the ability to represent the perspectives of others (social perspective-taking). Fifty-eight children ranging from second through nint…
Cognitive complexity and social perspective‐taking
The relationship between an individual's social perspective‐taking capacity and the complexity of that individual's dimensions for construing the behavior and character of others was examined within a general constructivist framework. A significant correlation was found supporting the hypothesis that the more differentiated the construction system of the individual the better he/she should be able to construe the perspectives of others in social …
Constructivism and the study of human communication
(1977). Constructivism and the study of human communication. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 66-83
Social schemas, cognitive complexity, and the learning of social structures 1
Construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity as predictors of the number and strategic adaptation of arguments and appeals in a persuasive message
Subjects differing in construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity wrote persuasive messages directed at a fictitious target person and gave written justifications for each argument or appeal used in their messages. Messages were scored for number of appeals used and appeal justifications were scored for the degree of strategic adaptation to the message target they reflected. Construct comprehensiveness correlated positively and significa…
A constructivist analysis of the concept of credibility
(1976). A constructivist analysis of the concept of credibility. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 361-375
The content of informal conversations as a function of interactants' interpersonal cognitive complexity
Subjects varying in level of interpersonal cognitive complexity engaged in ten minutes of unstructured informal conversation. These conversations were analyzed for the extent to which the talk concerned the participants themselves, the immediate context of interaction, or topics external to the immediate setting. Presumably because of their spontaneous cognitive organization of the encounter more in terms of person‐relevant dimensions, a higher p…
Dialects and the effects of stereotypes on interpersonal attraction and cognitive processes in impression formation
Two studies examined the nature of regional dialect cued stereotypes and their effect upon the formation of an impression of an unknown other. The studies showed (1) that subjects rely upon dialect as a cue to qualities of the other which facilitate his sociological placement, (2) that initial evaluative orientations based upon such stereotypes are quite tentative and change when subsequent information concerning the other's character is acquired…
Construct differentiation and the relationship of attitudes and behavioral intentions
Subjects differing in interpersonal construct differentiation completed both an attitude measure and a behavioral intentions measure (in which subjects’ behavioral intentions in each of nine attitude‐relevant interpersonal situations were assessed) toward a subject‐selected target person. While the overall correlation between attitude and the behavioral intentions index was high (r = .85,), low‐differentiation subjects displayed significantly gre…
The logic fallacy, cognitive theory, and the enthymeme: A search for the foundations of reasoned discourse
Change of meaning processes in impression formation
Subjects formed an impression of an unknown other described by the traits intelligent, clean, efficient, level‐headed, punctual, neat, ambitious, and self‐disciplined. Even though each of these traits is positive in normative evaluation, an overall negative evaluation of the stimulus person resulted. However, when two traits highly discrepant from the descriptive meaning of these eight traits (easy‐going and sensitive) were substituted for the tw…
Effects of cognitive complexity and of perceiver's set upon the organization of impressions
The relation of theory and analysis in explanations of belief salience: Conditioning, displacement, and constructivist accounts
According a central role to context‐relevant beliefs in the operation of attitudinal saliency is advocated through contrasting Delia et al.’s cognitive‐constructivist analysis with Cronen and Conville's operant conditioning and aggression displacement accounts
The logic fallacy, cognitive theory, and the enthymeme: A search for the foundations of reasoned discourse
Dialects and the effects of stereotypes on interpersonal attraction and cognitive processes in impression formation
Two studies examined the nature of regional dialect cued stereotypes and their effect upon the formation of an impression of an unknown other. The studies showed (1) that subjects rely upon dialect as a cue to qualities of the other which facilitate his sociological placement, (2) that initial evaluative orientations based upon such stereotypes are quite tentative and change when subsequent information concerning the other's character is acquired…
Social schemas, cognitive complexity, and the learning of social structures 1
Effects of cognitive complexity and of perceiver's set upon the organization of impressions
The Development of Functional Persuasive Skills in Childhood and Early Adolescence
Cognitive complexity and social perspective‐taking
The relationship between an individual's social perspective‐taking capacity and the complexity of that individual's dimensions for construing the behavior and character of others was examined within a general constructivist framework. A significant correlation was found supporting the hypothesis that the more differentiated the construction system of the individual the better he/she should be able to construe the perspectives of others in social …
Change of meaning processes in impression formation
Subjects formed an impression of an unknown other described by the traits intelligent, clean, efficient, level‐headed, punctual, neat, ambitious, and self‐disciplined. Even though each of these traits is positive in normative evaluation, an overall negative evaluation of the stimulus person resulted. However, when two traits highly discrepant from the descriptive meaning of these eight traits (easy‐going and sensitive) were substituted for the tw…
A constructivist analysis of the concept of credibility
(1976). A constructivist analysis of the concept of credibility. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 361-375
Construct Individuality, Cognitive Complexity, and the Formation and Remembering of Interpersonal Impressions
Subjects differing in cognitive complexity formed impressions from either (1) three positive and three negative experimenter-selected traits, (2) three traits of each evaluation generated by the subject in a preliminary session, or (3) three experimenter-selected traits of one valence and three subject-generated traits of the opposite valence. Additionally, subjects reconstructed their impressions from memory after eight weeks. Impressions were d…
The relation of theory and analysis in explanations of belief salience: Conditioning, displacement, and constructivist accounts
According a central role to context‐relevant beliefs in the operation of attitudinal saliency is advocated through contrasting Delia et al.’s cognitive‐constructivist analysis with Cronen and Conville's operant conditioning and aggression displacement accounts
Constructivism and the study of human communication
(1977). Constructivism and the study of human communication. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 66-83
Cognitive Complexity, Social Perspective-Taking, and Functional Persuasive Skills in Second- To Ninth-Grade Children
The assumption underlying this research is that effectiveness in communication involves social perception processes. Specifically, it was predicted that effectiveness in adapting persuasive messages to recipients would be related to the complexity of the interpersonal construct system (cognitive complexity) and to the ability to represent the perspectives of others (social perspective-taking). Fifty-eight children ranging from second through nint…
Construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity as predictors of the number and strategic adaptation of arguments and appeals in a persuasive message
Subjects differing in construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity wrote persuasive messages directed at a fictitious target person and gave written justifications for each argument or appeal used in their messages. Messages were scored for number of appeals used and appeal justifications were scored for the degree of strategic adaptation to the message target they reflected. Construct comprehensiveness correlated positively and significa…
The content of informal conversations as a function of interactants' interpersonal cognitive complexity
Subjects varying in level of interpersonal cognitive complexity engaged in ten minutes of unstructured informal conversation. These conversations were analyzed for the extent to which the talk concerned the participants themselves, the immediate context of interaction, or topics external to the immediate setting. Presumably because of their spontaneous cognitive organization of the encounter more in terms of person‐relevant dimensions, a higher p…
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…
Topoiand rhetorical competence
This essay argues that the speech communication scholar can make genuinely original contributions to the general study of communicative development, particularly to the investigation of strategic communication. The thesis advanced is that speech communication scholars need to return their attention to message strategies, but within the framework of the underlying cognitive and cultural structures through which they are created
Construct differentiation and the relationship of attitudes and behavioral intentions
Subjects differing in interpersonal construct differentiation completed both an attitude measure and a behavioral intentions measure (in which subjects’ behavioral intentions in each of nine attitude‐relevant interpersonal situations were assessed) toward a subject‐selected target person. While the overall correlation between attitude and the behavioral intentions index was high (r = .85,), low‐differentiation subjects displayed significantly gre…
Social Psychology, Competency, and Individual Differences in Communicative Action
The generativist conception of linguistic competence and its idealisa tion of a homogeneous speech community must be overcome if analyses of individual differences in language and communication are to receive the attention they merit. Development of a qualitative, multiple competencies conception of linguistic and communicative abilities offers promise of transcending the limita tions of the generativist approach while maintaining its concern wit…
Interpersonal Cognition, Message Goals, and Organization of Communication: Recent Constructivist Research
Campus sustainability and natural area stewardship: Student Involvement in Adaptive Comanagement
Krasny, M. E., and J. Delia. 2014. Campus sustainability and natural area stewardship: student involvement in adaptive comanagement. Ecology and Society 19(3): 27. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06787-190327
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Cognitive complexity (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Interpersonal communication (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works)