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ID58471
NAMEN A Palomares
GIVEN NAMESN A
FAMILY NAMEPalomares
SIGNATUREPALOMARES N A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Davis
ORCID0000-0002-7754-6357
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS175
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • Goal Understanding and Anonymous Cyberbullying in Social Media

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Rebecca Baumler et al.•ARTICLE•Communication Research•2026

    We experimentally manipulated social media affordances theoretically linked to cyberbullies’ anonymity using hypothetical scenarios taking advantage of the diverse ways people get bullied by someone they can identify versus an anonymous cyberbully. Nine different social media platforms–from TikTok, Twitter, and Tumblr to Instagram, iMessage, and Email–manipulated a cyberbully’s anonymity to uncover pathways known to precipitate poor mental health…

  • Anonymous and Insecure Bullies are Less Depressed than Confident and Identifiable Ones, but Only if Remorseful

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Caroline Murray et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Behavior and…•2025

    The connection between bullying others and depression is clear. Less clear are the communicative paths through which being a bully leads to depression. Cyberbullying consists of communicative episodes that transcend modes of communication, contexts, and relationships wherein a social network of communicators pursues a subordinate goal of harming other(s) mentally, emotionally, and/or physically to achieve a hierarchically represented set of super…

  • Exploring Gender Identity Cues in Email Signature Blocks

    Open Access•Rebecca Baumler, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Language and…•2025

    This study examines the effects of gender identity cues in email signatures on outcomes of misgendering, trait perceptions, social exclusion, and language use and how these effects are moderated by transphobia. Using a 3 x 2 between-subjects design, cisgender participants (N = 354) read and responded to a forwarded email containing gender identity cues in the signature block with varying pronouns (they/them, she/her, and he/him) and the trans fla…

  • Using Gender-Inclusive Restrooms Promotes Positive Attitudes Toward Trans and Non-Binary People

    Open Access•Rebecca Baumler, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•2025•References: 11

  • A Vision for the Continued Success of the JLSP

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2024•References: 7

    In this essay, I share a story of how asking a naive question in office hours as an undergraduate sparked in me a sustaining passion for the study of language and social psychology (LSP). Now, as I enter a new LSP venture as Editor for this unique and important journal, I detail four publishing priorities. I assume this position with humility and gratitude in light of four-plus decades of editorial leadership from Howie Giles and his impressive a…

  • When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete

    Open Access•John A Banas, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    Three experiments tested if the machine and bandwagon heuristics moderate beliefs in fact-checked claims under different conditions of human/machine (dis)agreement and of transparency of the fact-checking system. Across experiments, people were more likely to align their belief in the claim when artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourcing agents’ fact-checks were congruent rather than incongruent. The heuristics provided further nuance to the …

  • Linguistic Accommodation Enhances Compliance to Charity Donation

    Open Access•Wang Liao, Jingwen Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    We address the link between communication accommodation and compliance gaining in momentary, mediated encounters, using Goffman’s theory of interaction ritual as a conceptual bridge. We report an online experiment of compliance-gaining conversations with 915 dyads of strangers recruited from Amazon M-Turk. The extent to which two strangers accommodated each other’s non-content linguistic features predicted their behavioral compliance—monetary don…

  • The severity of bullying messages predicts increased levels of targets' depression and general anxiety as a function of targets' inferences of a bully's goals

    Open Access•Skye Wingate, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 53

    Being the recipient of severe bullying messages for a period of time is a meaningful predictor of subsequent mental health issues. Employing Goal Understanding Theory, we test an explanation for this association. Specifically, we hypothesize and generally confirm that targets' adverse emotional reaction and hurt from bullying messages serially mediate the positive association between message severity and depression and general anxiety, depending …

  • Victims' Goal Understanding, Uncertainty Reduction, and Perceptions in Cyberbullying

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Skye Wingate et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Cyberbullying is repetitive and aggressive behavior transmitted through mediated channels aimed at directing malice toward a victim with a to-harm goal. Three experiments manipulated a cyberbully's identity uncertainty—each employing different stimuli and scenarios—and assessed individuals' responses to being victimized. Experiment 1 demonstrated victims' information-seeking about a bully's identity and motives, emotional valence, and social attr…

  • Communication Science and Meta-Analysis

    Open Access•A Rain, Stephen A Rain et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 8

  • One Size Fits All

    Open Access•Teresa Gil-Lopez, Cuihua Shen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 10

    This study empirically examines context collapse on Facebook by examining audience influences on content and language in self-disclosures. Context collapse is the process of disparate audiences being conjoined into one. Using a public longitudinal behavioral data set of 6,378 Facebook users, the study found that the size and heterogeneity of people's networks were positively associated with the number of text status updates they posted, but negat…

  • Understanding Others' Goals Depends on the Efficiency and Timing of Goal Pursuit

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Katherine L Grasso et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    Goal understanding is the process by which interactants make inferences about others' objectives during conversation. Previous research has examined goal understanding without concern for the timing of goal pursuit. Accordingly, an experiment examined the timing of pursuers' efficiency in the communicative behavior employed to reach their goal. Results indicated that timing modified the relationship between pursuers' efficiency and detectors' acc…

  • The gender-linked language effect

    Anthony Mulac, H Giles et al.•ARTICLE•Language Sciences•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 26

  • Effects of Conversation Partners' Gender-Language Consistency on References to Emotion, Tentative Language, and Gender Salience

    Open Access•Zhenzhen Ye, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    The study examined how a conversation partner's gender and gender-language consistency influence communicators' gender-based language (i.e., references to emotion and tentativeness) and gender identity salience. In an email exchange, an experiment manipulated an ostensible conversation partner's gender and use of references to emotion in ways stereotypically consistent or inconsistent with the partner's gender. The conversation partner's gender a…

  • When and How Goals Are Contagious in Social Interaction

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 33

    Goal contagion occurs when a perceiver interacts with a partner whose behavior implies he/she is pursuing a particular goal and the perceiver accurately infers and subsequently pursues the partner's goal. Goal contagion was assessed in conversations between unacquainted individuals. In 2 experiments, the ways in which goal specificity, inference accuracy, and goal pursuit efficiency play a role in goal contagion were examined. In Experiment 1, go…

  • Virtual Gender Identity

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Eun-Ju Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2010•Cited by: 7•References: 54

    This research examined how individuals' gendered avatar might alter their use of gender-based language (i.e., references to emotion, apologies, and tentative language) in text-based computer-mediated communication. Specifically, the experiment tested if men and women would linguistically assimilate a virtual gender identity intimated by randomly assigned gendered avatars (either matched or mismatched to their true gender). Results supported the n…

  • It's Not Just Your Goal, But Also Who You Know

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2009•Cited by: 4•References: 48

    An experiment tested a theoretical framework for goal detection in dyadic interactions of close friends and unacquainted strangers wherein one conversationalist pursued a goal unbeknownst to a detector. The extent to which pursuers' conversation goal was cognitively associated with the dyad's relational type was manipulated. As hypothesized, pursuers' efficiency was significantly positively correlated to detectors' inference accuracy when the pur…

  • Gender, Language, and Social Influence

    Open Access•Scott A Reid, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 52

    This study compares self-categorization, expectation states, and role congruity theories' explanations for female influence. Male and female participants (N = 267) listened to a recording of a female speaker who used either tentative or assertive language under conditions that led participants to categorize her as a woman or as college-educated. There was no evidence that women were differentially influenced by the speaker's linguistic style or b…

  • Explaining Gender-Based Language Use

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2008•Cited by: 23•References: 40

    Journal Article Explaining Gender-Based Language Use: Effects of Gender Identity Salience on References to Emotion and Tentative Language in Intra- and Intergroup Contexts Get access Nicholas A. Palomares Nicholas A. Palomares 1Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 1Nicholas A. Palomares; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, 1 Ap…

  • Conversational Topic along a Continuum of Perspectives

    N A Palomares, James J Bradac et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2006•References: 40

    The literature regarding conversational topic is vast. Conversational topic, however, has various conceptualizations. For example, some studies examine topic changes, whereas others examine the broad subjects about which people talk. Four different perspectives (i.e., topic as a noun phrase, topic as a bounded unit, topic as a perception of language users, and topic as a subject matter of talk), focusing on different conceptions of topic for oste…

  • The Potential of Electronic Communication and Information Technologies as Research Tools

    N A Palomares, Andrew J Flanagin•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2005•References: 27

    Scholars across several disciplines praise the methodological advantages afforded to research endeavors by the use of electronic communication and information technologies. At the same time, however, scholars note several disadvantages stemming from the use of these tools. To assess the utility of electronic communication and information technologies as research tools, we synthesize work on the methodological issues surrounding the use of these t…

  • Strategic topic avoidance

    René M Dailey, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Communication Monographs•2004•Cited by: 41•References: 9

    This research stresses the need to examine the relationship between topic avoidance and relational correlates (e.g., satisfaction and emotional closeness) from a message production theoretical perspective. Our approach—strategic topic avoidance—offers additional explanatory capabilities as the strategies with which interactants in close relationships avoid topics may be associated with perceptions of the relationship (after accounting for topic a…

  • Topical Profiling

    Open Access•Kathy Kellermann, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2004•Cited by: 4•References: 54

    This research profiles the topics of everyday talk, pinpointing topical patterns that are emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining. Participants reported topics of their conversations with particular types of people (e.g., parents, significant others, bosses, professors, service people, etc.). The most commonly emerging topics were those most central to participants' lives and that helped them "check in" with (i.e., update) and "check ou…

  • Gender Schematicity, Gender Identity Salience, and Gender-Linked Language Use

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2004•Cited by: 25•References: 55

    Journal Article Gender Schematicity, Gender Identity Salience, and Gender-Linked Language Use Get access Nicholas A. Palomares Nicholas A. Palomares 1University of California, Davis 2Nicholas A. Palomares, Department of Communication, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 30, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 556–588, h…

  • Language, Gender Salience, and Social Influence

    Open Access•Scott A Reid, Natasha Keerie et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2003•Cited by: 16•References: 24

    Reductionist explanations for gender differences in language use continue to occupy much research attention. However, such approaches cannot explain when or why people might change their gender-marked language use. This article reviews and critiques several of these approaches and tests an alternative from the perspective of self-categorization theory. Male-female dyads (N = 42) discussed a gender-neutral controversial issue under conditions of l…

  • Strategic topic avoidance

    René M Dailey, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Communication Monographs•2004•Cited by: 41•References: 9

    This research stresses the need to examine the relationship between topic avoidance and relational correlates (e.g., satisfaction and emotional closeness) from a message production theoretical perspective. Our approach—strategic topic avoidance—offers additional explanatory capabilities as the strategies with which interactants in close relationships avoid topics may be associated with perceptions of the relationship (after accounting for topic a…

  • Gender Schematicity, Gender Identity Salience, and Gender-Linked Language Use

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2004•Cited by: 25•References: 55

    Journal Article Gender Schematicity, Gender Identity Salience, and Gender-Linked Language Use Get access Nicholas A. Palomares Nicholas A. Palomares 1University of California, Davis 2Nicholas A. Palomares, Department of Communication, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 30, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 556–588, h…

  • Explaining Gender-Based Language Use

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2008•Cited by: 23•References: 40

    Journal Article Explaining Gender-Based Language Use: Effects of Gender Identity Salience on References to Emotion and Tentative Language in Intra- and Intergroup Contexts Get access Nicholas A. Palomares Nicholas A. Palomares 1Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 1Nicholas A. Palomares; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, 1 Ap…

  • Language, Gender Salience, and Social Influence

    Open Access•Scott A Reid, Natasha Keerie et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2003•Cited by: 16•References: 24

    Reductionist explanations for gender differences in language use continue to occupy much research attention. However, such approaches cannot explain when or why people might change their gender-marked language use. This article reviews and critiques several of these approaches and tests an alternative from the perspective of self-categorization theory. Male-female dyads (N = 42) discussed a gender-neutral controversial issue under conditions of l…

  • One Size Fits All

    Open Access•Teresa Gil-Lopez, Cuihua Shen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 10

    This study empirically examines context collapse on Facebook by examining audience influences on content and language in self-disclosures. Context collapse is the process of disparate audiences being conjoined into one. Using a public longitudinal behavioral data set of 6,378 Facebook users, the study found that the size and heterogeneity of people's networks were positively associated with the number of text status updates they posted, but negat…

  • When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete

    Open Access•John A Banas, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    Three experiments tested if the machine and bandwagon heuristics moderate beliefs in fact-checked claims under different conditions of human/machine (dis)agreement and of transparency of the fact-checking system. Across experiments, people were more likely to align their belief in the claim when artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourcing agents’ fact-checks were congruent rather than incongruent. The heuristics provided further nuance to the …

  • The gender-linked language effect

    Anthony Mulac, H Giles et al.•ARTICLE•Language Sciences•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 26

  • Virtual Gender Identity

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Eun-Ju Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2010•Cited by: 7•References: 54

    This research examined how individuals' gendered avatar might alter their use of gender-based language (i.e., references to emotion, apologies, and tentative language) in text-based computer-mediated communication. Specifically, the experiment tested if men and women would linguistically assimilate a virtual gender identity intimated by randomly assigned gendered avatars (either matched or mismatched to their true gender). Results supported the n…

  • When and How Goals Are Contagious in Social Interaction

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 33

    Goal contagion occurs when a perceiver interacts with a partner whose behavior implies he/she is pursuing a particular goal and the perceiver accurately infers and subsequently pursues the partner's goal. Goal contagion was assessed in conversations between unacquainted individuals. In 2 experiments, the ways in which goal specificity, inference accuracy, and goal pursuit efficiency play a role in goal contagion were examined. In Experiment 1, go…

  • Gender, Language, and Social Influence

    Open Access•Scott A Reid, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 52

    This study compares self-categorization, expectation states, and role congruity theories' explanations for female influence. Male and female participants (N = 267) listened to a recording of a female speaker who used either tentative or assertive language under conditions that led participants to categorize her as a woman or as college-educated. There was no evidence that women were differentially influenced by the speaker's linguistic style or b…

  • It's Not Just Your Goal, But Also Who You Know

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2009•Cited by: 4•References: 48

    An experiment tested a theoretical framework for goal detection in dyadic interactions of close friends and unacquainted strangers wherein one conversationalist pursued a goal unbeknownst to a detector. The extent to which pursuers' conversation goal was cognitively associated with the dyad's relational type was manipulated. As hypothesized, pursuers' efficiency was significantly positively correlated to detectors' inference accuracy when the pur…

  • Topical Profiling

    Open Access•Kathy Kellermann, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2004•Cited by: 4•References: 54

    This research profiles the topics of everyday talk, pinpointing topical patterns that are emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining. Participants reported topics of their conversations with particular types of people (e.g., parents, significant others, bosses, professors, service people, etc.). The most commonly emerging topics were those most central to participants' lives and that helped them "check in" with (i.e., update) and "check ou…

  • Victims' Goal Understanding, Uncertainty Reduction, and Perceptions in Cyberbullying

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Skye Wingate et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Cyberbullying is repetitive and aggressive behavior transmitted through mediated channels aimed at directing malice toward a victim with a to-harm goal. Three experiments manipulated a cyberbully's identity uncertainty—each employing different stimuli and scenarios—and assessed individuals' responses to being victimized. Experiment 1 demonstrated victims' information-seeking about a bully's identity and motives, emotional valence, and social attr…

  • Linguistic Accommodation Enhances Compliance to Charity Donation

    Open Access•Wang Liao, Jingwen Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    We address the link between communication accommodation and compliance gaining in momentary, mediated encounters, using Goffman’s theory of interaction ritual as a conceptual bridge. We report an online experiment of compliance-gaining conversations with 915 dyads of strangers recruited from Amazon M-Turk. The extent to which two strangers accommodated each other’s non-content linguistic features predicted their behavioral compliance—monetary don…

  • Understanding Others' Goals Depends on the Efficiency and Timing of Goal Pursuit

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Katherine L Grasso et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    Goal understanding is the process by which interactants make inferences about others' objectives during conversation. Previous research has examined goal understanding without concern for the timing of goal pursuit. Accordingly, an experiment examined the timing of pursuers' efficiency in the communicative behavior employed to reach their goal. Results indicated that timing modified the relationship between pursuers' efficiency and detectors' acc…

  • Effects of Conversation Partners' Gender-Language Consistency on References to Emotion, Tentative Language, and Gender Salience

    Open Access•Zhenzhen Ye, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    The study examined how a conversation partner's gender and gender-language consistency influence communicators' gender-based language (i.e., references to emotion and tentativeness) and gender identity salience. In an email exchange, an experiment manipulated an ostensible conversation partner's gender and use of references to emotion in ways stereotypically consistent or inconsistent with the partner's gender. The conversation partner's gender a…

  • The severity of bullying messages predicts increased levels of targets' depression and general anxiety as a function of targets' inferences of a bully's goals

    Open Access•Skye Wingate, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 53

    Being the recipient of severe bullying messages for a period of time is a meaningful predictor of subsequent mental health issues. Employing Goal Understanding Theory, we test an explanation for this association. Specifically, we hypothesize and generally confirm that targets' adverse emotional reaction and hurt from bullying messages serially mediate the positive association between message severity and depression and general anxiety, depending …

  • Communication Science and Meta-Analysis

    Open Access•A Rain, Stephen A Rain et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 8

  • Language, Gender Salience, and Social Influence

    Open Access•Scott A Reid, Natasha Keerie et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2003•Cited by: 16•References: 24

    Reductionist explanations for gender differences in language use continue to occupy much research attention. However, such approaches cannot explain when or why people might change their gender-marked language use. This article reviews and critiques several of these approaches and tests an alternative from the perspective of self-categorization theory. Male-female dyads (N = 42) discussed a gender-neutral controversial issue under conditions of l…

  • Strategic topic avoidance

    René M Dailey, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Communication Monographs•2004•Cited by: 41•References: 9

    This research stresses the need to examine the relationship between topic avoidance and relational correlates (e.g., satisfaction and emotional closeness) from a message production theoretical perspective. Our approach—strategic topic avoidance—offers additional explanatory capabilities as the strategies with which interactants in close relationships avoid topics may be associated with perceptions of the relationship (after accounting for topic a…

  • Topical Profiling

    Open Access•Kathy Kellermann, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2004•Cited by: 4•References: 54

    This research profiles the topics of everyday talk, pinpointing topical patterns that are emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining. Participants reported topics of their conversations with particular types of people (e.g., parents, significant others, bosses, professors, service people, etc.). The most commonly emerging topics were those most central to participants' lives and that helped them "check in" with (i.e., update) and "check ou…

  • Gender Schematicity, Gender Identity Salience, and Gender-Linked Language Use

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2004•Cited by: 25•References: 55

    Journal Article Gender Schematicity, Gender Identity Salience, and Gender-Linked Language Use Get access Nicholas A. Palomares Nicholas A. Palomares 1University of California, Davis 2Nicholas A. Palomares, Department of Communication, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 30, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 556–588, h…

  • The Potential of Electronic Communication and Information Technologies as Research Tools

    N A Palomares, Andrew J Flanagin•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2005•References: 27

    Scholars across several disciplines praise the methodological advantages afforded to research endeavors by the use of electronic communication and information technologies. At the same time, however, scholars note several disadvantages stemming from the use of these tools. To assess the utility of electronic communication and information technologies as research tools, we synthesize work on the methodological issues surrounding the use of these t…

  • Conversational Topic along a Continuum of Perspectives

    N A Palomares, James J Bradac et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2006•References: 40

    The literature regarding conversational topic is vast. Conversational topic, however, has various conceptualizations. For example, some studies examine topic changes, whereas others examine the broad subjects about which people talk. Four different perspectives (i.e., topic as a noun phrase, topic as a bounded unit, topic as a perception of language users, and topic as a subject matter of talk), focusing on different conceptions of topic for oste…

  • Explaining Gender-Based Language Use

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2008•Cited by: 23•References: 40

    Journal Article Explaining Gender-Based Language Use: Effects of Gender Identity Salience on References to Emotion and Tentative Language in Intra- and Intergroup Contexts Get access Nicholas A. Palomares Nicholas A. Palomares 1Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 1Nicholas A. Palomares; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, 1 Ap…

  • It's Not Just Your Goal, But Also Who You Know

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2009•Cited by: 4•References: 48

    An experiment tested a theoretical framework for goal detection in dyadic interactions of close friends and unacquainted strangers wherein one conversationalist pursued a goal unbeknownst to a detector. The extent to which pursuers' conversation goal was cognitively associated with the dyad's relational type was manipulated. As hypothesized, pursuers' efficiency was significantly positively correlated to detectors' inference accuracy when the pur…

  • Gender, Language, and Social Influence

    Open Access•Scott A Reid, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 52

    This study compares self-categorization, expectation states, and role congruity theories' explanations for female influence. Male and female participants (N = 267) listened to a recording of a female speaker who used either tentative or assertive language under conditions that led participants to categorize her as a woman or as college-educated. There was no evidence that women were differentially influenced by the speaker's linguistic style or b…

  • Virtual Gender Identity

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Eun-Ju Lee et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2010•Cited by: 7•References: 54

    This research examined how individuals' gendered avatar might alter their use of gender-based language (i.e., references to emotion, apologies, and tentative language) in text-based computer-mediated communication. Specifically, the experiment tested if men and women would linguistically assimilate a virtual gender identity intimated by randomly assigned gendered avatars (either matched or mismatched to their true gender). Results supported the n…

  • The gender-linked language effect

    Anthony Mulac, H Giles et al.•ARTICLE•Language Sciences•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 26

  • Effects of Conversation Partners' Gender-Language Consistency on References to Emotion, Tentative Language, and Gender Salience

    Open Access•Zhenzhen Ye, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 18

    The study examined how a conversation partner's gender and gender-language consistency influence communicators' gender-based language (i.e., references to emotion and tentativeness) and gender identity salience. In an email exchange, an experiment manipulated an ostensible conversation partner's gender and use of references to emotion in ways stereotypically consistent or inconsistent with the partner's gender. The conversation partner's gender a…

  • When and How Goals Are Contagious in Social Interaction

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 33

    Goal contagion occurs when a perceiver interacts with a partner whose behavior implies he/she is pursuing a particular goal and the perceiver accurately infers and subsequently pursues the partner's goal. Goal contagion was assessed in conversations between unacquainted individuals. In 2 experiments, the ways in which goal specificity, inference accuracy, and goal pursuit efficiency play a role in goal contagion were examined. In Experiment 1, go…

  • Understanding Others' Goals Depends on the Efficiency and Timing of Goal Pursuit

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Katherine L Grasso et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    Goal understanding is the process by which interactants make inferences about others' objectives during conversation. Previous research has examined goal understanding without concern for the timing of goal pursuit. Accordingly, an experiment examined the timing of pursuers' efficiency in the communicative behavior employed to reach their goal. Results indicated that timing modified the relationship between pursuers' efficiency and detectors' acc…

  • One Size Fits All

    Open Access•Teresa Gil-Lopez, Cuihua Shen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 10

    This study empirically examines context collapse on Facebook by examining audience influences on content and language in self-disclosures. Context collapse is the process of disparate audiences being conjoined into one. Using a public longitudinal behavioral data set of 6,378 Facebook users, the study found that the size and heterogeneity of people's networks were positively associated with the number of text status updates they posted, but negat…

  • Victims' Goal Understanding, Uncertainty Reduction, and Perceptions in Cyberbullying

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Skye Wingate et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Cyberbullying is repetitive and aggressive behavior transmitted through mediated channels aimed at directing malice toward a victim with a to-harm goal. Three experiments manipulated a cyberbully's identity uncertainty—each employing different stimuli and scenarios—and assessed individuals' responses to being victimized. Experiment 1 demonstrated victims' information-seeking about a bully's identity and motives, emotional valence, and social attr…

  • Communication Science and Meta-Analysis

    Open Access•A Rain, Stephen A Rain et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2020•Cited by: 1•References: 8

  • Linguistic Accommodation Enhances Compliance to Charity Donation

    Open Access•Wang Liao, Jingwen Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 15

    We address the link between communication accommodation and compliance gaining in momentary, mediated encounters, using Goffman’s theory of interaction ritual as a conceptual bridge. We report an online experiment of compliance-gaining conversations with 915 dyads of strangers recruited from Amazon M-Turk. The extent to which two strangers accommodated each other’s non-content linguistic features predicted their behavioral compliance—monetary don…

  • The severity of bullying messages predicts increased levels of targets' depression and general anxiety as a function of targets' inferences of a bully's goals

    Open Access•Skye Wingate, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Personal…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 53

    Being the recipient of severe bullying messages for a period of time is a meaningful predictor of subsequent mental health issues. Employing Goal Understanding Theory, we test an explanation for this association. Specifically, we hypothesize and generally confirm that targets' adverse emotional reaction and hurt from bullying messages serially mediate the positive association between message severity and depression and general anxiety, depending …

  • When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete

    Open Access•John A Banas, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2022•Cited by: 9•References: 19

    Three experiments tested if the machine and bandwagon heuristics moderate beliefs in fact-checked claims under different conditions of human/machine (dis)agreement and of transparency of the fact-checking system. Across experiments, people were more likely to align their belief in the claim when artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourcing agents’ fact-checks were congruent rather than incongruent. The heuristics provided further nuance to the …

  • A Vision for the Continued Success of the JLSP

    Open Access•N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Social…•2024•References: 7

    In this essay, I share a story of how asking a naive question in office hours as an undergraduate sparked in me a sustaining passion for the study of language and social psychology (LSP). Now, as I enter a new LSP venture as Editor for this unique and important journal, I detail four publishing priorities. I assume this position with humility and gratitude in light of four-plus decades of editorial leadership from Howie Giles and his impressive a…

  • Anonymous and Insecure Bullies are Less Depressed than Confident and Identifiable Ones, but Only if Remorseful

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Caroline Murray et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Behavior and…•2025

    The connection between bullying others and depression is clear. Less clear are the communicative paths through which being a bully leads to depression. Cyberbullying consists of communicative episodes that transcend modes of communication, contexts, and relationships wherein a social network of communicators pursues a subordinate goal of harming other(s) mentally, emotionally, and/or physically to achieve a hierarchically represented set of super…

  • Exploring Gender Identity Cues in Email Signature Blocks

    Open Access•Rebecca Baumler, N A Palomares et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Language and…•2025

    This study examines the effects of gender identity cues in email signatures on outcomes of misgendering, trait perceptions, social exclusion, and language use and how these effects are moderated by transphobia. Using a 3 x 2 between-subjects design, cisgender participants (N = 354) read and responded to a forwarded email containing gender identity cues in the signature block with varying pronouns (they/them, she/her, and he/him) and the trans fla…

  • Using Gender-Inclusive Restrooms Promotes Positive Attitudes Toward Trans and Non-Binary People

    Open Access•Rebecca Baumler, N A Palomares•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•2025•References: 11

  • Goal Understanding and Anonymous Cyberbullying in Social Media

    Open Access•N A Palomares, Rebecca Baumler et al.•ARTICLE•Communication Research•2026

    We experimentally manipulated social media affordances theoretically linked to cyberbullies’ anonymity using hypothetical scenarios taking advantage of the diverse ways people get bullied by someone they can identify versus an anonymous cyberbully. Nine different social media platforms–from TikTok, Twitter, and Tumblr to Instagram, iMessage, and Email–manipulated a cyberbully’s anonymity to uncover pathways known to precipitate poor mental health…

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