J R Pederson
Biographic Data
| ID | 30809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J R Pederson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J R |
| FAMILY NAME | Pederson |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9424-5372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Supporting in Ways That Do Not Align With What We Feel, Believe, or Want: Theorizing About Deceptive/Reluctant Support Provision in Interpersonal Relationships
In this study, we investigate deceptive/reluctant support (D/RS), which we define as verbal and nonverbal supportive communication that is communicated unwillingly (i.e., hesitantly or against their wishes), does not align with support providers’ true feelings or beliefs (i.e., disingenuous or inauthentic), or both. In addition, relational norms and patterns of behavior specific to providers' relationships with support recipients were central to …
The Relational Load of Political Dissimilarity in Romantic Relationships
Drawing on the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL), this study offers a novel integration of political and relational communication by examining how political differences operate within romantic relationships to shape relational strain. Survey data from more than 800 individuals in committed romantic relationships assessed perceived political similarity, the importance of (a) exchanging political opinions, (b) having similar political…
Embodying intimacy in everyday interaction: A biolinguistic study of long-term partners in the Southeastern United States
Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives on embodiment, this paper advances a "biolinguistic" approach to ethnographic research on intimacy, attending simultaneously to the co-constitutive interactive, psychophysiological, and phenomenological processes that emerge in everyday embodied interaction between long-term, cohabitating romantic partners. Through concurrent attention to natural interactions captured during video…
Relational load when a romantic partner is unemployed: The role of communal coping and social network support
Romantic partners of unemployed individuals uniquely experience stress due to spillover effects of unemployment and their role as primary support providers for the unemployed individual. The present study drew on the extended theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC) to examine a process of communal coping experienced by romantic partners (N = 285) of unemployed individuals, who completed an online survey. Analyses indicated that stress related…
Love and politics: The influence of politically (dis)similar romantic relationships on political participation and relationship satisfaction
People are more likely to seek out romantic partners who are politically similar to themselves. Nonetheless, romantic partners who disagree politically do exist. This study examines the influence of political (dis)similarity in romantic relationships on both political participation and relationship satisfaction. We found that (1) people in politically similar romantic relationships are more satisfied in their relationships and more politically pa…
Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature
This book draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. The book foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical pr…
Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature
In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. Pederson's work foregrounds the concept of moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those wh…
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality
This mixed‐methods study examines how adults in the United States perceive their romantic partner's response to disclosures of suicidality and how romantic relationship characteristics relate to perceptions of disclosure responses. Participants ( N = 30) recruited from Reddit completed a survey using open‐ and closed‐ended questions about disclosing suicidality to a romantic partner. Qualitative findings highlight validating and invalidating disc…
Disclosure and nondisclosure of suicidality to romantic partners: Understanding the decision-making process
The stigmatization of suicidal thoughts and behaviors often prevents disclosure to others, including romantic partners. Minimal research has examined the disclosure or withholding of this stigmatized identity, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the benefits or consequences of informing others. Participants ( n = 61) were recruited from Reddit and completed open-ended questions about their prior suicidal ideation and behaviors while in a roman…
Relational Surprise Experiences as a Unique Form of Relational Maintenance
This study presents an initial exploration and conceptualization of relational surprise experiences (RSEs) as communication phenomenon involving strategic relational maintenance behaviors with potential for positive and negative outcomes. University students in the Southeastern United States (N = 203) described a RSE that occurred with a close relational partner (romantic partner, friend, or family member), explained how deception was used to ach…
Indirect effects of supportive communication during conversations about coping with relational transgressions
Researchers investigating relational transgressions have minimally explored the role of third‐party personal network members in the coping process. It is argued that supportive messages during conversations about coping with relational transgressions are associated with transgressed individuals' perceived stress and feelings about the transgression. Results from a study involving conversations between 50 pairs of personal network members suggest …
Managing information following hurtful experiences: How personal network members negotiate private information
The present study explores how personal network members manage information related to hurtful experiences. The study uses communication privacy management (CPM) theory as the theoretical framework for a theme analysis of responses of disclosers of hurtful experiences and confidants regarding how they manage information related to a hurtful experience. Results of the thematic analysis provide insight into the process by which people disclose a hur…
Relational Communication and Understanding in Conversations About Hurtful Events Between Parents and Adolescents: Relational Communication and Understanding
This article examines how the severity of a hurtful event and discrepancies in perceptions of relational communication affect perceived understanding and empathic accuracy (EA) in parent–adolescent discussions about a hurtful event in their relationship. Results from a dyadic interaction study showed that the severity of the hurtful event was negatively associated with perceived understanding. Furthermore, discrepancies in perceptions of disaffil…
Perceived and Ideal Family Communication Patterns and Family Satisfaction for Parents and their College-Aged Children
A sample of 120 dyads consisting of a parent and their college-aged child provided reports of perceived and ideal family communication patterns (FCP) in addition to indicating their satisfaction with the family. Results indicated high correlations between perceived and ideal FCP dimensions for both parents and their children. Parents reported higher scores than children did on perceived conversation orientation, ideal conversation orientation, an…
Disruptions of individual and cultural identities: How online stories of job loss and unemployment shift the American Dream
For many Americans work plays a prominent role in the construction of one’s identity. However, experiencing job loss or unemployment disrupts a normal progress to living a successful life as outlined by the master narrative of the American Dream. In the present study I explore disruptions to personal identities and cultural narratives by conducting a narrative thematic analysis of stories told by unemployed individuals in online settings. The fin…
The Gospel of Thomas (Pynchon): Abandoning Eschatology in Gravity’s Rainbow
It is tempting to read Thomas Pynchon’s sprawling masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow—with its shell-shocked refugees fleeing across a missile-pocked, post-war landscape—as an eschatological text that plays out religious end-times scenarios. However, an invented citation from the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas included as a chapter epigraph—“Dear Mom, I put a couple of people in hell today”—suggests that we should do otherwise. In grafting a playful fr…
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Beaudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
How Perceived Situational Frequency and Situational Importance Affect Communication Apprehension: A Cross Cultural Analysis
This study assesses the relationship between communication apprehension (CA) and factors of perceived communication situational frequency and communication situational importance. The results reveal a trend demonstrating that the more often a person encounters and the more important a person feels about the particular communication, then the less CA the person experiences. Both American and Indian participants exhibited this trend, demonstrating …
The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
512 Book Reviews / Religion and the Arts 11 (2007) 509– 514 Young, Frances et al., eds. Th e Cambridge History of Early Christian Litera- ture . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxix + 538 + 1 table + 1 map. $120.00 cloth. I n the introduction to Th e Cambridge History of Early Christian Litera- ture , the editors describe their volume as “not simply a general history, but a literary history ” of early Christian texts. Th…
Disclosure and nondisclosure of suicidality to romantic partners: Understanding the decision-making process
The stigmatization of suicidal thoughts and behaviors often prevents disclosure to others, including romantic partners. Minimal research has examined the disclosure or withholding of this stigmatized identity, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the benefits or consequences of informing others. Participants ( n = 61) were recruited from Reddit and completed open-ended questions about their prior suicidal ideation and behaviors while in a roman…
Disruptions of individual and cultural identities: How online stories of job loss and unemployment shift the American Dream
For many Americans work plays a prominent role in the construction of one’s identity. However, experiencing job loss or unemployment disrupts a normal progress to living a successful life as outlined by the master narrative of the American Dream. In the present study I explore disruptions to personal identities and cultural narratives by conducting a narrative thematic analysis of stories told by unemployed individuals in online settings. The fin…
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality
This mixed‐methods study examines how adults in the United States perceive their romantic partner's response to disclosures of suicidality and how romantic relationship characteristics relate to perceptions of disclosure responses. Participants ( N = 30) recruited from Reddit completed a survey using open‐ and closed‐ended questions about disclosing suicidality to a romantic partner. Qualitative findings highlight validating and invalidating disc…
Perceived and Ideal Family Communication Patterns and Family Satisfaction for Parents and their College-Aged Children
A sample of 120 dyads consisting of a parent and their college-aged child provided reports of perceived and ideal family communication patterns (FCP) in addition to indicating their satisfaction with the family. Results indicated high correlations between perceived and ideal FCP dimensions for both parents and their children. Parents reported higher scores than children did on perceived conversation orientation, ideal conversation orientation, an…
Embodying intimacy in everyday interaction: A biolinguistic study of long-term partners in the Southeastern United States
Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives on embodiment, this paper advances a "biolinguistic" approach to ethnographic research on intimacy, attending simultaneously to the co-constitutive interactive, psychophysiological, and phenomenological processes that emerge in everyday embodied interaction between long-term, cohabitating romantic partners. Through concurrent attention to natural interactions captured during video…
Managing information following hurtful experiences: How personal network members negotiate private information
The present study explores how personal network members manage information related to hurtful experiences. The study uses communication privacy management (CPM) theory as the theoretical framework for a theme analysis of responses of disclosers of hurtful experiences and confidants regarding how they manage information related to a hurtful experience. Results of the thematic analysis provide insight into the process by which people disclose a hur…
The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
512 Book Reviews / Religion and the Arts 11 (2007) 509– 514 Young, Frances et al., eds. Th e Cambridge History of Early Christian Litera- ture . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxix + 538 + 1 table + 1 map. $120.00 cloth. I n the introduction to Th e Cambridge History of Early Christian Litera- ture , the editors describe their volume as “not simply a general history, but a literary history ” of early Christian texts. Th…
How Perceived Situational Frequency and Situational Importance Affect Communication Apprehension: A Cross Cultural Analysis
This study assesses the relationship between communication apprehension (CA) and factors of perceived communication situational frequency and communication situational importance. The results reveal a trend demonstrating that the more often a person encounters and the more important a person feels about the particular communication, then the less CA the person experiences. Both American and Indian participants exhibited this trend, demonstrating …
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Beaudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
The Gospel of Thomas (Pynchon): Abandoning Eschatology in Gravity’s Rainbow
It is tempting to read Thomas Pynchon’s sprawling masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow—with its shell-shocked refugees fleeing across a missile-pocked, post-war landscape—as an eschatological text that plays out religious end-times scenarios. However, an invented citation from the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas included as a chapter epigraph—“Dear Mom, I put a couple of people in hell today”—suggests that we should do otherwise. In grafting a playful fr…
Perceived and Ideal Family Communication Patterns and Family Satisfaction for Parents and their College-Aged Children
A sample of 120 dyads consisting of a parent and their college-aged child provided reports of perceived and ideal family communication patterns (FCP) in addition to indicating their satisfaction with the family. Results indicated high correlations between perceived and ideal FCP dimensions for both parents and their children. Parents reported higher scores than children did on perceived conversation orientation, ideal conversation orientation, an…
Disruptions of individual and cultural identities: How online stories of job loss and unemployment shift the American Dream
For many Americans work plays a prominent role in the construction of one’s identity. However, experiencing job loss or unemployment disrupts a normal progress to living a successful life as outlined by the master narrative of the American Dream. In the present study I explore disruptions to personal identities and cultural narratives by conducting a narrative thematic analysis of stories told by unemployed individuals in online settings. The fin…
Relational Communication and Understanding in Conversations About Hurtful Events Between Parents and Adolescents: Relational Communication and Understanding
This article examines how the severity of a hurtful event and discrepancies in perceptions of relational communication affect perceived understanding and empathic accuracy (EA) in parent–adolescent discussions about a hurtful event in their relationship. Results from a dyadic interaction study showed that the severity of the hurtful event was negatively associated with perceived understanding. Furthermore, discrepancies in perceptions of disaffil…
Managing information following hurtful experiences: How personal network members negotiate private information
The present study explores how personal network members manage information related to hurtful experiences. The study uses communication privacy management (CPM) theory as the theoretical framework for a theme analysis of responses of disclosers of hurtful experiences and confidants regarding how they manage information related to a hurtful experience. Results of the thematic analysis provide insight into the process by which people disclose a hur…
Indirect effects of supportive communication during conversations about coping with relational transgressions
Researchers investigating relational transgressions have minimally explored the role of third‐party personal network members in the coping process. It is argued that supportive messages during conversations about coping with relational transgressions are associated with transgressed individuals' perceived stress and feelings about the transgression. Results from a study involving conversations between 50 pairs of personal network members suggest …
Relational Surprise Experiences as a Unique Form of Relational Maintenance
This study presents an initial exploration and conceptualization of relational surprise experiences (RSEs) as communication phenomenon involving strategic relational maintenance behaviors with potential for positive and negative outcomes. University students in the Southeastern United States (N = 203) described a RSE that occurred with a close relational partner (romantic partner, friend, or family member), explained how deception was used to ach…
Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature
This book draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. The book foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical pr…
Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature
In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. Pederson's work foregrounds the concept of moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those wh…
Perceptions of romantic partners' responses to disclosures of suicidality
This mixed‐methods study examines how adults in the United States perceive their romantic partner's response to disclosures of suicidality and how romantic relationship characteristics relate to perceptions of disclosure responses. Participants ( N = 30) recruited from Reddit completed a survey using open‐ and closed‐ended questions about disclosing suicidality to a romantic partner. Qualitative findings highlight validating and invalidating disc…
Disclosure and nondisclosure of suicidality to romantic partners: Understanding the decision-making process
The stigmatization of suicidal thoughts and behaviors often prevents disclosure to others, including romantic partners. Minimal research has examined the disclosure or withholding of this stigmatized identity, resulting in a lack of knowledge about the benefits or consequences of informing others. Participants ( n = 61) were recruited from Reddit and completed open-ended questions about their prior suicidal ideation and behaviors while in a roman…
Relational load when a romantic partner is unemployed: The role of communal coping and social network support
Romantic partners of unemployed individuals uniquely experience stress due to spillover effects of unemployment and their role as primary support providers for the unemployed individual. The present study drew on the extended theoretical model of communal coping (TMCC) to examine a process of communal coping experienced by romantic partners (N = 285) of unemployed individuals, who completed an online survey. Analyses indicated that stress related…
Love and politics: The influence of politically (dis)similar romantic relationships on political participation and relationship satisfaction
People are more likely to seek out romantic partners who are politically similar to themselves. Nonetheless, romantic partners who disagree politically do exist. This study examines the influence of political (dis)similarity in romantic relationships on both political participation and relationship satisfaction. We found that (1) people in politically similar romantic relationships are more satisfied in their relationships and more politically pa…
Embodying intimacy in everyday interaction: A biolinguistic study of long-term partners in the Southeastern United States
Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives on embodiment, this paper advances a "biolinguistic" approach to ethnographic research on intimacy, attending simultaneously to the co-constitutive interactive, psychophysiological, and phenomenological processes that emerge in everyday embodied interaction between long-term, cohabitating romantic partners. Through concurrent attention to natural interactions captured during video…
Supporting in Ways That Do Not Align With What We Feel, Believe, or Want: Theorizing About Deceptive/Reluctant Support Provision in Interpersonal Relationships
In this study, we investigate deceptive/reluctant support (D/RS), which we define as verbal and nonverbal supportive communication that is communicated unwillingly (i.e., hesitantly or against their wishes), does not align with support providers’ true feelings or beliefs (i.e., disingenuous or inauthentic), or both. In addition, relational norms and patterns of behavior specific to providers' relationships with support recipients were central to …
The Relational Load of Political Dissimilarity in Romantic Relationships
Drawing on the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL), this study offers a novel integration of political and relational communication by examining how political differences operate within romantic relationships to shape relational strain. Survey data from more than 800 individuals in committed romantic relationships assessed perceived political similarity, the importance of (a) exchanging political opinions, (b) having similar political…
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