Will Kalkhoff

Biographic Data

ID4199518
NAMEWill Kalkhoff
GIVEN NAMESWill
FAMILY NAMEKalkhoff
SIGNATUREKALKHOFF W
AFFILIATIONSKent State University
ORCID0000-0002-8667-3294
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS121
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX8

  • Vocal Accommodation and Perceptions of Speakers’ Prestige and Dominance

    Open AccessJoseph Dippong, Will Kalkhoff et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2022References: 27

    Research on the causes and consequences of vocal accommodation is accumulating rapidly in social psychology, but important puzzles remain. Recent work has shown that patterns of vocal accommodation among actors engaged in competitive interactions (e.g., debates) are related to audience perceptions of their relative dominance but not prestige. This makes intuitive sense, but it remains unclear how audience perceptions of actors’ relative dominance…

  • Cracking the Black Box: Capturing the Role of Expectation States in Status Processes

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, D Melamed et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2020Cited by: 8References: 55

    A fundamental task for sociology is to uncover the mechanisms that produce and reproduce social inequalities. While status characteristics theory is the favored account of how social status contributes independently to the maintenance of inequality, it hinges on an unobserved construct, expectation states, in the middle of the causal chain between status and behavior. Efforts to test the mediation mechanism have been complicated by the implicit, …

  • Persistent Identity Threats: Emotional and Neurological Responses

    Open AccessBrennan Miller, Brennan J Miller et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2019Cited by: 1References: 26

    In the past few decades, sociologists have called for the incorporation of biological ideas and methods into sociology as a means of improving our understanding of social behavior. In this vein, researchers have argued that bringing neuroscience into the study of self and identity processes will help sociologists refine and construct more accurate theories. The present study pursues this agenda by using neuroscience insights and methodology to em…

  • Gender Differences in Reactions to Mental Illness Labeling: The Role of Agency and Communion

    Chivon H Fitch, Jessica L Burke et al.ARTICLEDeviant Behavior2019Cited by: 2References: 53

    Numerous individual characteristics influence responses to receiving a mental health diagnosis, including gender. This study sought to determine how gender influences reactions to being labeled as depressed or not depressed, which were categorized as falling into themes of communion or agency. Using the themes developed by Niedzwienska (2003), 168 college students’ responses to depression labels were coded as a part of a laboratory experiment. Th…

  • Status, Networks, and Opinion Change: An Experimental Investigation

    Open AccessJoseph Dippong, Will Kalkhoff et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2017Cited by: 4References: 22

    This study evaluates two prominent sociological theories of interpersonal influence: status characteristics theory and social influence network theory. In application to status settings, we test social influence network theory and its established measurement model as well as a recent “modular integration” that operationalizes social influence network theory’s central constructs by incorporating assumptions from status characteristics theory. The …

  • Nonverbal Vocal Adaptation and Audience Perceptions of Dominance and Prestige

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, Shane R Thye et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2017Cited by: 2References: 19

    Fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis of speech is a useful tool for measuring the social organization of micro interactions. Past research suggests that “adaptation” in the lower nonverbal vocal frequencies may be associated with bystander perceptions of dominance and prestige, but these factors have not been compared in a single study. Furthermore, it is unclear whether nonverbal vocal adaptation has an independent effect on bystander perceptio…

  • The Neural Bases of Status-Based Influence

    Open AccessD Melamed, Will Kalkhoff et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2017Cited by: 8References: 44

    Status characteristics theory provides a theoretical explanation for why social status promotes social influence in collectively oriented task groups. It argues that status differences produce differences in expectation states, which are anticipations of task-related contributions. Those with an expectation advantage are more influential, contribute more often to group discussions, and so on. The authors conducted the first experimental test of s…

  • Developments in Neurosociology

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, Shane R Thye et al.ARTICLESociology Compass2016Cited by: 9References: 15

    Neurosociology is a multilevel, integrative perspective that does not replace, but rather strengthens and is strengthened by, more established sociological traditions. It is a tract of common ground with the neurosciences and other “neuro friendly” social sciences, and so it heralds an exciting period of discovery through an unprecedented synthesis of ideas. To facilitate the continued progress of neurosociology, we address two pressing goals. Fi…

  • To thine own self be true? Clarifying the effects of identity discrepancies on psychological distress and emotions

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, Kristen Marcussen et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2016Cited by: 3References: 42

  • Predicting performance expectations from affective impressions: Linking affect control theory and status characteristics theory

    Open AccessJoseph Dippong, Will KalkhoffARTICLESocial Science Research2015Cited by: 5References: 37

  • Moderators and mediators of the stress-aggression relationship: Executive function and state anger

    Jenessa Sprague, Edelyn Verona et al.ARTICLEEmotion2011

    The present study examined the effects of executive function (i.e., EF) and anger/hostility on the relationship between stress (across individual stress domains, as well as at the aggregate level) and aggression. Two independent groups of participants-a college sample and a low-income community sample-were administered a battery of self-report measures concerning the subjective experience of stress, aggressive behaviors, and feelings of state ang…

  • The Biosociology of Solidarity

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, Joseph Dippong et al.ARTICLESociology Compass2011Cited by: 4References: 19

    For well over a century, sociologists have directed considerable attention to understanding and explaining the processes that produce social solidarity – the feeling of interpersonal connectedness that binds members of society together. Despite the centrality of solidarity to sociological thought, many sociologists remain unaware of the biosocial processes and mechanisms that create and sustain it. We espouse a biosociological viewpoint, which il…

  • Do Others’ Views of Us Transfer to New Groups and Tasks: An Expectation States Approach

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, C Wesley Younts et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2011Cited by: 6References: 34

    The dual nature of the self has been a core concern of social psychology since its inception. We contribute to this longstanding tradition of inquiry by focusing on two lines of research within the expectation states theoretical research program: (1) the study of second-order expectations and (2) research on the durability of expectations. We argue that individuals give priority to others’ expectations over their own, and we compare our model aga…

  • Status, networks, and opinions: A modular integration of two theories

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, N E Friedkin et al.CHAPTERAdvances in Group Processes2010

    This chapter focuses on two theories in the landscape of research on social influence – status characteristics theory and social influence network theory – between which heretofore there has been little communication. We advance these two approaches by dovetailing them in a “modular integration” that retains the assumptions of each theory and extends their scope of application. Here, we concentrate on the extension of status characteristics theor…

  • Facts & Artifacts in Research: The Case of Communication Medium, Gender, and Influence

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, C Wesley Younts et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2008Cited by: 8References: 21

  • Relational Distance and the Acceptance of Mental Health Evaluations: A Social Influence Approach to Deviant Labeling

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, Kristina Djurich et al.ARTICLESociological Perspectives2007Cited by: 1References: 30

    Research on labeling has been criticized for neglecting individual-level responses to being labeled. The authors examine labeling as social influence, focusing on the 'relational distance' between the labeler and the labelee and how this affects the labelee's 'avowal,' or acceptance, of mental evaluations. The authors report results showing that participants more strongly accepted mental evaluations from a randomly assigned, less relationally dis…

  • Expectation States Theory and Research: New Observations From Meta-Analysis

    Open AccessWill Kalkhoff, Shane R ThyeARTICLESociological Methods & Research2006Cited by: 23References: 43

    Over the past 50 years, the expectation states research program has generated a set of interrelated theories to explain the relation between performance expectations and social influence. Yet while the relationship between performance expectations and social influence is now axiomatic, the reported effects do differ in magnitude, sometimes widely. The authors present results from the first formal meta-analysis of expectation states research on so…

  • Collective Validation in Multi-Actor Task Groups: The Effects Of Status Differentiation

    Open AccessWill KalkhoffARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2005Cited by: 9References: 29

    Berger and his colleagues argue that collective validation (i.e., group members' corroboration of deferential behavior) is an important source of legitimacy in informal task groups. This invites the question “What causes collective validation?” Drawing from Simmel and Blau in particular, I develop an explanation of collective validation that conceives of actors as embedded in a structure of multiple status relations, and I introduce the concept o…

  • Clarifying the Theory of Second-Order Expectations: The Correspondence between Motives for Interaction and Actors' Orientation toward Group Interaction

    Lisa Troyer, C Wesley Younts et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2001Cited by: 9

    Lisa Troyer, C. Wesley Younts, Will Kalkhoff, Clarifying the Theory of Second-Order Expectations: The Correspondence between Motives for Interaction and Actors' Orientation toward Group Interaction, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 128-145

  • The Effects of Status-Organizing and Social Identity Processes on Patterns of Social Influence

    Will Kalkhoff, Christopher Barnum et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly2000Cited by: 19

    Two theories of social influence, status characteristics theory (SCT) and social identity theory (SIT), have achieved an uncommon degree of theoretical cumulation. SCT focuses on the influence of status-differentiated actors in goal-oriented settings, while SIT addresses the influence of in-group versus out-group members in intergroup contexts. We explore the joint effect of status and social identity. Using a modification of SCT's standardized e…