Paul Bolls
Biographic Data
| ID | 6194354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Bolls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolls |
| SIGNATURE | BOLLS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4876-8791 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Countering Asian American hate
The increase in verbal and physical aggressions directed at Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and after has brought into focus a need to understand the reasons for such aggressions and identify interventions. Our study addresses these needs by investigating whether photographs accompanying a news report depicting Asian Americans positively or negatively in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic activate positive or negative perceptions o…
Platform and Proximity
This study explored how geographical proximity of news stories (local or international news stories) and bodily proximity of news platforms (reading news on a smartphone or desktop computer) affects people’s cognitive and emotional processing of news messages. The results suggested that geographical and bodily proximity interact to affect individuals’ attentional engagement with the news messages. Reading crime news that happens in a distant loca…
Tourist mental-imagery processing
Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning
This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological techniques, and most recent research in this area. It goes beyond current volumes by placing the research techniques within a context of communication processes and effects as a field, and demonstrating how the real-time measurement of physiological responses enhances and complemen…
The effects of production pacing and arousing content on the information processing of television messages
The limited capacity model of television viewing is used to investigate the impact of arousing content and fast paced production of viewers’ information processing of TV messages. Results show that both fast pace and arousing content elicit self‐reported arousal, but they elicit different patterns of physiological arousal. Both fast pace and arousing content increase the allocation of processing resources to messages. The combination of fast pace…
The effects of production pacing and arousing content on the information processing of television messages
The limited capacity model of television viewing is used to investigate the impact of arousing content and fast paced production of viewers’ information processing of TV messages. Results show that both fast pace and arousing content elicit self‐reported arousal, but they elicit different patterns of physiological arousal. Both fast pace and arousing content increase the allocation of processing resources to messages. The combination of fast pace…
Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning
This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological techniques, and most recent research in this area. It goes beyond current volumes by placing the research techniques within a context of communication processes and effects as a field, and demonstrating how the real-time measurement of physiological responses enhances and complemen…
Tourist mental-imagery processing
Platform and Proximity
This study explored how geographical proximity of news stories (local or international news stories) and bodily proximity of news platforms (reading news on a smartphone or desktop computer) affects people’s cognitive and emotional processing of news messages. The results suggested that geographical and bodily proximity interact to affect individuals’ attentional engagement with the news messages. Reading crime news that happens in a distant loca…
Countering Asian American hate
The increase in verbal and physical aggressions directed at Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and after has brought into focus a need to understand the reasons for such aggressions and identify interventions. Our study addresses these needs by investigating whether photographs accompanying a news report depicting Asian Americans positively or negatively in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic activate positive or negative perceptions o…
Psychology (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Media Influence and Health (3 works) · Arousal (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Multimedia (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Asian americans (1 work)