John C Sherblom
Biographic Data
| ID | 2799135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Sherblom |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherblom |
| SIGNATURE | SHERBLOM J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5835-961X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The social cognition of hope
Hope is a social cognition that involves personal agency and creative thinking about how to achieve an individual goal through interpersonal communication. Regression results show that social cognition skills differ in their effect on a person’s hope. Social sensitivity and situational understanding both predict hope. Interestingly, perceived skill in social expression does not. These results suggest that communication training designed to facili…
Parental Responsibility and Respondent Anger, Sympathy, and Willingness to Help Following Child Death
Relationships among attributions of responsibility, emotions of anger and sympathy, and willingness to help have been theorized, but questions about the relationship between anger and sympathy remain unclear. The present study examines 306 responses to news stories that manipulated attributions of parental responsibility following the accidental death of a child. Results confirm that attributions of responsibility increase expressions of anger an…
An Exploration of Why People Participate in Second Life Social Support Groups
The present study investigates why people participate in Second Life social support groups. Twenty-three participants in Alcoholics Anonymous and Cancer Caregiver groups that meet in Second Life were interviewed and asked how satisfied they are with those meetings, what influences their satisfaction, what they find most helpful, what they like the least, the nature of their relationships in the group, and what surprised them the most. Their respo…
Justice, Care, and Integrated Concerns in the Ethical Decision Making of Nurses
Past research on the ethical decision making of nurses has used Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning, which does not adequately ad-dress issues of caring. The present study builds on the work of Gilligan, Brown, and colleagues to describe issues of moral concern, including justice, care, and integrated concerns. Nurses in the present study articulated justice concerns for fairness, patients' rights, and autonomy. They also stated care concerns for…
Persuasive intent as a determinant of phonemic choice
An Exploration of Why People Participate in Second Life Social Support Groups
The present study investigates why people participate in Second Life social support groups. Twenty-three participants in Alcoholics Anonymous and Cancer Caregiver groups that meet in Second Life were interviewed and asked how satisfied they are with those meetings, what influences their satisfaction, what they find most helpful, what they like the least, the nature of their relationships in the group, and what surprised them the most. Their respo…
Persuasive intent as a determinant of phonemic choice
Justice, Care, and Integrated Concerns in the Ethical Decision Making of Nurses
Past research on the ethical decision making of nurses has used Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning, which does not adequately ad-dress issues of caring. The present study builds on the work of Gilligan, Brown, and colleagues to describe issues of moral concern, including justice, care, and integrated concerns. Nurses in the present study articulated justice concerns for fairness, patients' rights, and autonomy. They also stated care concerns for…
An Exploration of Why People Participate in Second Life Social Support Groups
The present study investigates why people participate in Second Life social support groups. Twenty-three participants in Alcoholics Anonymous and Cancer Caregiver groups that meet in Second Life were interviewed and asked how satisfied they are with those meetings, what influences their satisfaction, what they find most helpful, what they like the least, the nature of their relationships in the group, and what surprised them the most. Their respo…
Parental Responsibility and Respondent Anger, Sympathy, and Willingness to Help Following Child Death
Relationships among attributions of responsibility, emotions of anger and sympathy, and willingness to help have been theorized, but questions about the relationship between anger and sympathy remain unclear. The present study examines 306 responses to news stories that manipulated attributions of parental responsibility following the accidental death of a child. Results confirm that attributions of responsibility increase expressions of anger an…
The social cognition of hope
Hope is a social cognition that involves personal agency and creative thinking about how to achieve an individual goal through interpersonal communication. Regression results show that social cognition skills differ in their effect on a person’s hope. Social sensitivity and situational understanding both predict hope. Interestingly, perceived skill in social expression does not. These results suggest that communication training designed to facili…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Situational ethics (2 works)