J Harwood
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 42711 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Harwood |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Harwood |
| ASSINATURA | HARWOOD J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1623-9668 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 91 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 555 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
How Mediated Intergroup Contact Works
Positive mediated intergroup contact improves outgroup perceptions – at least in the short term. We argue that exposure to outgroup characters engaging in specific activities affects outgroup perceptions via activity-specific mechanisms. We investigated whether watching an outgroup character engaging in a musical or language learning activity evokes a music-specific mediator, empathy, or a language-specific mediator, knowledge. We conducted a pre…
Communication, Contact, and Intergenerational Dynamics
This Epilogue extends themes from the Special Issue, with a particular focus on how communication operates during times of social disruption. Three forms of disruption are discussed: societal-global disruption (manifested in the Covid-19 pandemic), individual-relational disruption (manifested in a dementia diagnosis), and societal progress (manifested in technological change). The Epilogue discusses how these disruptions affect the quality and qu…
The role of social network sites (SNS) affordances in international students’ identity gap management during cross-cultural adjustment
Humanizing Dementia
Patronizing speech and dehumanization both have negative impacts on the health and wellbeing of the recipients of these behaviors. This experiment applied Fiske's stereotype content model, Haslam's dual model of dehumanization, and Hummert's model of patronizing speech to assess the effects of warmth- and competence-enhancing messages about a person with dementia on perceptions of humanness and patronizing speech toward people with dementia. Resu…
Role of Fat Talk on the Relationships in the Bruneian Chinese Society
This research paper examines the role of “fat talk” in relationships in Bruneian Chinese society. “Fat talk” refers to negative comments about one's weight or body shape towards oneself or others. Using qualitative research methods, the study explores the perceptions and experiences of Bruneian Chinese individuals regarding “fat talk”, factors leading to the discussion of the topic, and its impact on their relationships with their peers. The find…
What people do matters during intergroup communication
Positive intergroup communication reduces outgroup prejudice. Attempting to decompose the effect of intergroup contact more precisely, we argue that engaging in different activities during intergroup communication influences prejudice through different pathways. We investigated whether exposure to interactive videos involving cognitive, affective, and behavioral activities reduces outgroup prejudice through relevant mediators (knowledge, empathy,…
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election
Operatives working for the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) infiltrated social media with the goal of disrupting the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We investigate how these operatives or “trolls” leveraged partisan political identities in discussing presidential candidates and parties on Twitter. Adopting a social identity lens, we conceptualize retweeting troll content as a form of identity performance and examine the message properties …
Seeking Others’ Sounds
Intergroup contact research demonstrates that contact with outgroups (including mediated contact) improves attitudes about those groups. However, people often avoid such contact, including avoiding outgroup media messages. In two studies, we investigated voluntary exposure to outgroup media. Our research builds on intergroup contact theory and the reactive approach model. The latter suggests (counterintuitively) that, sometimes, anxiety can motiv…
Does outgroup media exposure reduce prejudice in real life? Testing mediated contact effects with media diets in South Africa
Mediated intergroup contact can reduce recipients’ prejudice. However, prior studies have mainly examined the effects of carefully selected stimuli, contents, and genres. We investigated whether outgroup exposure on the level of real-life, multi-channel media diets is associated with reduced prejudice. Prior scholarship offers contradictory expectations: We tested this with survey data from South Africa where the numeric group constellation and t…
When they support us
Our research examines perceptions of emotional support messages characterized by high verbal person-centeredness (VPC) when sent from an outgroup versus an ingroup member. We conducted two experiments in which White participants (N1 = 206, N2 = 166) imagined receiving a high VPC support message from a White (ingroup) or Black (outgroup) peer. Counter to our hypotheses drawn from expectancy violations theory, both studies revealed that participant…
Negative side effects of music listening during cross-cultural transitions
Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media
This experiment examines whether exposure to outgroup members' self-presentation on Facebook and ingroup members' accommodative versus nonaccommodative responses influence perceptions of outgroup members' social attractiveness and attitudes toward the target outgroup. U.S. college students ( N = 865) saw one of four fictitious Facebook pages with wall posts representing a Chinese international student's self-presentation (positive vs. negative) a…
Shared musical activity and perceptions of relationship commitment
Sharing music with another person involves the potential for profound emotional connection, rhythmic synchronization and coordination, and the expression of shared social and political values (among other things). We explore whether experiences of shared musical activity are associated with perceptions of communication and positive outcomes in friendships and romantic relationships, using reports from one member of the dyad. Reports of musical ac…
Study Abroad Soundtracks
This study explores the ways music can facilitate cross-cultural transitions in academic sojourns. It builds on music’s specific capacities for emotionally rich experiences, interpersonal connection and synchronization, and universality. Focus groups and interviews with U.S. and international students reveal that music helped students to establish new routines, become open to new genres, learn about the local culture, connect to others, and manag…
Using sport media exposure to promote gender equality
By relying on literature on counter-stereotypes and media contact, we investigated whether media exposure is associated with counter-stereotypical gender perceptions. Focusing on the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, we recruited samples ( N = 2,228) from eight competing countries (China, France, Germany, Italy, Scotland, Spain, England, US) across three continents. We hypothesized that exposure to media coverage of the competition’s counter-stereotyp…
“That's when the relationship shifted”
This study investigated the relational turning points experienced by caregiving spouses across the trajectory of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Data were collected using a modified version of the retrospective interviewing technique which facilitated close analysis of relational turning points and the role of communication in shaping and managing these turning points. Caregiving spouses described nine relational turning points across …
For the love of music
This study examined whether stereotypes of warmth and competence can be changed through exposure to outgroup musical behavior. We hypothesized that exposure to an outgroup musician would result in more perceived outgroup warmth, reduced intergroup anxiety, and more pro-diversity attitudes relative to nonmusical outgroup exposure, and that these effects would be mediated by target warmth, synchronization, empathy, and trust. The hypotheses were te…
Modes of intergroup contact
The modes of intergroup contact, both direct and indirect, have become a focal point for the contact literature over the past decade or more. As part of our developing understanding of when and why certain types of contact improve intergroup relations, this paper examines some theoretical concepts useful for organizing modes of contact, building on previous schemes in the literature. It explores the idea that experiences in one type of contact ge…
Language—AND—Social Psychology
This Epilogue discusses the papers in the Special Issue ( JLSP 40th Anniversary) in terms of the broader field of language and social psychology. It reflects on the key terms (“language” and “social psychology”) in terms of how they intersect and the relative emphasis on each in work published in JLSP. We also present an argument for increasing the consideration of context in language and social psychology research, and we distinguish between a d…
Does perceived normativity of intergenerational contact enhance the effects of imagined intergenerational contact
Two experiments investigated effects of imagined intergroup contact (IIC) on young adults’ stereotypical perceptions of and intention to communicate with older adults. Both studies tested a third-person variant of IIC (extended IIC). Also, Study 1 explicitly manipulated the perceived normativity of intergenerational contact by providing relevant information, and Study 2 implicitly manipulated perceived normativity via task repetition. In Study 1,…
Facebook contact
Seeking and avoiding intergroup contact
Over 60 years of research and comprehensive reviews now support Gordon Allport's contact hypothesis that face‐to‐face interactions between members of opposing groups should be promoted to lessen prejudice and improve intergroup relations. Society however does not yet enjoy the full prejudice‐reducing benefits of intergroup contact because opportunities for contact are often not taken up, and segregation persists in the face of diversity. In this …
Associations Between Shared Musical Engagement and Parent–Child Relational Quality
Parent–child musical engagement in childhood and adolescence was assessed as a predictor of relational quality in emerging adulthood. From a perspective grounded in the communicative dynamics of musical engagement, this effect was hypothesized to be mediated by perceptions of interpersonal coordination and empathy between parent and child. Support was found for such mediated effects, particularly with coordination as a mediator. Results persisted…
Social identity motivations and intergroup media attractiveness
In this experiment we manipulated three features (intergroup social comparison, outgroup character stereotypicality, intergroup intimacy) of an intergroup TV pilot proposal. We examined how two underlying social identity motivations (social enhancement, social uncertainty reduction) were gratified by the aforementioned features, and whether this gratification predicted media attractiveness. Findings indicate that when social comparison was manipu…
Incivility and Political Identity on the Internet
Although incivility is an increasing concern among scholars and the public, explanations for this phenomenon sometimes overlook the role of computer-mediated communication. Drawing from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), we consider incivility as a form of identity performance occurring in the visually anonymous contexts that are typical online. Specifically, we examine partisan political identities and intergroup factor…
The genesis of vitality theory
Article The genesis of vitality theory: historical patterns and discoursal dimensions was published on January 1, 1994 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1994, issue 108)
Communicative Predictors of Solidarity in the Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship
This research examined college students' and their grand-parents' (N= 135 dyads) self-reports of communication behaviors in the grandparent-grandchild (GP-GC) relationship. The research aimed to understand predictors of communication satisfaction, liking, and emotional closeness in the relation-ship from a basis in communication accommodation theory. For grandchildren, predictors included their perceptions of their grandparents' levels of accommo…
Positive and extensive intergroup contact in the past buffers against the disproportionate impact of negative contact in the present
Negative (vs positive) intergroup contact may have a disproportionately large impact on intergroup relations because of valence‐salience effects, whereby negative contact causes higher category salience (Paolini, Harwood, & Rubin, 2010). One correlational and three experimental studies in three conflict areas (Northern Ireland, Arizona's border area, and Cyprus; Ns = 405, 83, 76, and 91) tested the moderation of these valence‐salience effects by …
College Students' Multiple Stereotypes of Lesbians
This paper examines stereotypes of lesbians held by college students. Multiple stereotypes are elicited from a free response trait listing task, followed by a sorting task. The results of the sorting task are submitted to cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling to reveal the complexity of cognitive representations of this group. Eight types are described, reflecting underlying distinctions between positive perceptions (e.g., lipstick lesbia…
Intergroup Contact and Grandparent–Grandchild Communication
This study investigated contact and ageism on both the implicit and the explicit level. We examined the role of grandparent–grandchild communication (in terms of self-disclosure) and its relations to anxiety and empathy in improving intergenerational attitudes. Analyses revealed that: (1) quantity and quality of contact with older people (other than grandparents) predict higher levels of self-disclosure (to one's grandparent); (2) quantity (but n…
Incivility and Political Identity on the Internet
Although incivility is an increasing concern among scholars and the public, explanations for this phenomenon sometimes overlook the role of computer-mediated communication. Drawing from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), we consider incivility as a form of identity performance occurring in the visually anonymous contexts that are typical online. Specifically, we examine partisan political identities and intergroup factor…
The Contact Space
This article presents a new framework for understanding research on the intersection between language, communication, and intergroup contact. Contact theory has described a variety of ways in which contact between groups can reduce prejudice and improve intergroup relations. However, the field has become fragmented by the study of a variety of forms of contact whose interconnections have not been elucidated, and it has paid insufficient attention…
The Influence of Episodic and Thematic Frames on Policy and Group Attitudes
An experiment examined how episodic and thematic political message frames affect attitudes toward older adults and Social Security. When exposed to messages about abolishing Social Security, participants exposed to episodic frames were significantly more likely to endorse message-consistent attitudes than participants exposed to a thematic frame. In mediation analyses, an episodic frame featuring a counterstereotypical exemplar increased endorsem…
Accommodation Predictors of Grandparent-Grandchild Relational Solidarity in Taiwan
Grounded in communication accommodation theory, this research examined Taiwanese grandchildren's ( N= 100) and grandparents' ( N= 108) perceptions of communication behavior in grandparent-grandchild (GP-GC) interactions. This study investigated noncommunicative and communicative predictors of communication satisfaction, liking, and emotional closeness in the relationship. Regression analyses showed that communication accommodation behaviors accou…
The Portrayal of Older Adults in Advertising
From a multinational perspective, this article provides an overview of a number of research programs examining portrayals of older adults in advertising. The research described includes both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the place of older people in advertising and the ways this is associated with older adults' place in society. This article is organized around three central themes: an overview of the major theoretical perspectives sur…
Younger and older adults' schematic representations of intergenerational communication
The current paper examines younger and older adults’ cognitive representations of intergenerational conversations. In interviews, younger and older adults were asked to imagine various types of conversations with older and younger targets. They were prompted to provide a wide variety of information about the targets and the conversations. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed to uncover types of conversations commonly reported. Through a c…
College students' trait ratings of three age groups around the Pacific Rim
Creating intergenerational distance
Representation of age identities in on-line discourse
Older adults' trait ratings of three age-groups around the Pacific rim
Don't Make me Laugh
The Golden Girls is a highly popular television series which, since its inception in 1985, has received praise for presenting the elderly on television in a positive light. Research, however, has not investigated the messages of the show in any depth and the current study aims to remedy this. A discursive analysis of the show is conducted to identify ways in which the show marks age and achieves humorous effect. The multiple ways in which these e…
The Family and Communication Dynamics of Group Salience
Group salience is a key variable both in influencing quality of intergroup contact and in moderating the effects of intergroup contact on prejudicial attitudes. Two studies uncovered the communicative dimensions associated with evaluations of age salience in the grandparent-grandchild relationship, and we investigated the extent to which communication dimensions predicted various measures of salience, relational closeness, and attitudes concernin…
Perceptions of Conflict Management Styles in Chinese Intergenerational Dyads
We examined intergenerational communication and conflict management styles in China. Older and younger Chinese adults were randomly assigned to evaluate one of four conversation transcripts in which an older worker criticizes a young co-worker. The young worker's communication was varied across the transcripts to reflect four conflict management styles: competing, avoiding, accommodating, and problem-solving. As expected, older participants favor…
The Grandparent?Grandchild Relationship
Journal Article The Grandparent–Grandchild Relationship: Implications for Models of Intergenerational Communication Get access Karen Anderson, Karen Anderson 1University of North Texas 4University of North Texas, Department of Communication Studies, P. O. Box 305268, Denton, TX 76203 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jake Harwood, Jake Harwood 2University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: …
Direct and Mediated Intercultural Contact
Guided by the intergroup contact hypothesis, this study tested two models examining the associations among Korean young adults' consumption of U.S. dramas, direct contact with a U.S. American person, and their attitudes toward U.S. Americans in general. Results demonstrated that personal contact and mediated contact had a positive effect on intergroup attitudes, but that frequency of personal contact was a negative contributor. Mediated contact h…
Perceived vitality of age categories in California and Hong Kong
This paper examines young people's assessments of the subjective vitality (SV) of young, middle‐aged, and elderly targets in Hong Kong and California. This emerged from an interest in the application of the SV framework to age, which is a new development. In addition, we were interested in the relative strength ascribed to the elderly in the two cultures, given western conceptions that the elderly are revered and respected in Asian cultures. The …
Facebook contact
Communication accommodation competence
Reactions to Older People being Patronized
This article examines young people's evaluations of young and elderly targets in a patronizing encounter. Intergenerational patronizing vignettes were presented to respondents who evaluated the target characters. The presence of patronizing talk by a young individual, the nature of the older adult's response, and the thoughts of each target were manipulated in the vignette. The thoughts were manipulated as caring or dominant (younger individual),…
Stereotype reduction through humor and accommodation during imagined communication with older adults
Ageism can generate conflict and harm well-being. Our paper integrates the Aging Stereotypes in Interaction model with intergroup contact theory to predict how communicative elements mediate the effect of intergenerational contact on warmth and competence stereotypes of older adults as a group. Students (N = 288) were randomly assigned to imagine having a conversation with an older adult in one of six experimentally manipulated contact conditions…
Puerto Rican spiritism
Ethnolinguistic vitality in the Danish capital of America
This paper analyses objective/subjective and qualitative/quantitative aspects of vitality in Solvang, a Danish‐American community. The setting is interesting for its radical transformation from being all about leading a fulfilling (Grundtvigian) community life to being instrumentally all about attracting tourists with an external Danish facade. By ethnographic‐like means, we analyse the historical vitality of Solvang to the present leading us to …
Don't Make me Laugh
The Golden Girls is a highly popular television series which, since its inception in 1985, has received praise for presenting the elderly on television in a positive light. Research, however, has not investigated the messages of the show in any depth and the current study aims to remedy this. A discursive analysis of the show is conducted to identify ways in which the show marks age and achieves humorous effect. The multiple ways in which these e…
Creating intergenerational distance
Perceived vitality of age categories in California and Hong Kong
This paper examines young people's assessments of the subjective vitality (SV) of young, middle‐aged, and elderly targets in Hong Kong and California. This emerged from an interest in the application of the SV framework to age, which is a new development. In addition, we were interested in the relative strength ascribed to the elderly in the two cultures, given western conceptions that the elderly are revered and respected in Asian cultures. The …
The genesis of vitality theory
Article The genesis of vitality theory: historical patterns and discoursal dimensions was published on January 1, 1994 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1994, issue 108)
Surviving the Swastika
Communication and Older Adults
College students' trait ratings of three age groups around the Pacific Rim
Reactions to Older People being Patronized
This article examines young people's evaluations of young and elderly targets in a patronizing encounter. Intergenerational patronizing vignettes were presented to respondents who evaluated the target characters. The presence of patronizing talk by a young individual, the nature of the older adult's response, and the thoughts of each target were manipulated in the vignette. The thoughts were manipulated as caring or dominant (younger individual),…
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Iturbide, Graciela
Costigliolo, José Pedro
Iturria, Ignacio
Age identification, social identity gratifications, and television viewing
The relationship between social identity and television viewing gratifications is investigated. Focusing on age group identity, initial evidence for the reliability and validity of an age identity gratifications scale is provided. Among young adults, the scale predicts age identification and television viewing. Young adults’ selection of shows featuring young characters leads to increased age group identification. Findings are discussed in terms …
Communication media use in the grandparent-grandchild relationship
This study surveyed college-aged grandchildren as to the frequency of their communication with a grandparent using various media. Face-to-face (FtF) and telephone communication were used more frequently than written media, but all were used fairly frequently. Communication using all media was more frequent when the grandparent or grandchild initiated interaction as opposed to the parent. Relationships in which the grandparent initiated contact fe…
Affiliation, Pride, Exchange, and Distance in Grandparents' Accounts of Relationships With Their College-Aged Grandchildren
This paper examines grandparents' written accounts of conversations with their college-aged grandchildren. Using a thematic analysis, we describe 4 themes that indicate the place of the relationship in the grandparents' lives and their general orientation to their grandchildren. It is argued that expressions of affiliation, pride, exchange (primarily of advice and information), and feeling distance from their grandchildren are fundamental element…
Communication Media Use in the Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship
This study surveyed college-aged grandchildren as to the frequency of their communication with a grandparent using various media. Face-to-face (FtF) and telephone communication were used more frequently than written media, but all were used fairly frequently. Communication using all media was more frequent when the grandparent or grandchild initiated interaction as opposed to the parent. Relationships in which the grandparent initiated contact fe…
Younger and older adults' schematic representations of intergenerational communication
The current paper examines younger and older adults’ cognitive representations of intergenerational conversations. In interviews, younger and older adults were asked to imagine various types of conversations with older and younger targets. They were prompted to provide a wide variety of information about the targets and the conversations. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed to uncover types of conversations commonly reported. Through a c…
A Cross-cultural Analysis of Age Identity in Japan and the United States
Age identity (Garstka et al., 1997) was examined with regard to its structure in Japan and the United States. Factor analysis confirmed the validity of a one-factor structure in both countries. Cluster analysis suggested a three-cluster solution in both Japan (ingroup identification and significance, sense of similarity, ingroup positive evaluation) and the USA (ingroup orientation, age centrality, ingroup positivity). In Japan, age-group pride a…
Communicative Predictors of Solidarity in the Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship
This research examined college students' and their grand-parents' (N= 135 dyads) self-reports of communication behaviors in the grandparent-grandchild (GP-GC) relationship. The research aimed to understand predictors of communication satisfaction, liking, and emotional closeness in the relation-ship from a basis in communication accommodation theory. For grandchildren, predictors included their perceptions of their grandparents' levels of accommo…
Sharp
This article examined an intergenerational interaction from a popular television show in two ways. First, a detailed textual analysis illustrated (a) the salience of age in the interaction, (b) (counter-) stereotypical elements of the older adults' portrayal, (c) intergenerational connections achieved within the interaction, and (d) the use of age stereotypes in the script's humorous punch line. The punch line featured the previously alert older …
Older adults' trait ratings of three age-groups around the Pacific rim
Conversation Topics and Communication Satisfaction in Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships
This article investigated college students' and their grandparents' (n = 103 dyads) reports of topics in conversation with each other. For grandparents and grandchildren, family and education were the two most frequently mentioned topics. Other popular topics were leisure and friendship for both grandparents and grandchildren. Acluster analysis was performed to group the grandparent-grandchild dyads according to their topic reports. Four dyadic c…
Accommodation Predictors of Grandparent-Grandchild Relational Solidarity in Taiwan
Grounded in communication accommodation theory, this research examined Taiwanese grandchildren's ( N= 100) and grandparents' ( N= 108) perceptions of communication behavior in grandparent-grandchild (GP-GC) interactions. This study investigated noncommunicative and communicative predictors of communication satisfaction, liking, and emotional closeness in the relationship. Regression analyses showed that communication accommodation behaviors accou…
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