Joseph A Bonito
Biographic Data
| ID | 646222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph A Bonito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonito |
| SIGNATURE | BONITO J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3924-5227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior to Motivate Intentions to Remove Anthropogenic Food Sources in Residential Areas
Anthropogenic food sources in residential areas, including unsecured trash, bird feeders, and fruit trees, can attract wildlife and increase negative human-wildlife interactions. While agencies recommend behaviors to reduce attractants, research on factors driving residents’ intention to comply remains limited. This study applies and extends the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) by testing core constructs (attitude, perceived behavioral control, a…
Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: A turn-level analysis
Mutual influence is central to prominent supportive communication theories but remains understudied. We conduct a turn-level analysis to investigate mutual influence in the unfolding nature of conversations among 334 stranger dyads discussing a personal problem. We examine how the types of messages produced by support seekers influence the immediate response from providers, and how that provider response impacts the next message produced by suppo…
Mixed Messages: II. Outcomes Associated with the Proportion and Placement of Negative Statements in Support Messages
Few studies on emotional support have investigated mixed messages – instances when emotional support messages contain both positive and negative statements. Although researchers have recognized that mixed messages occur, most supportive communication research has ignored these ambivalent messages. We contend based on the negativity bias that the more negative statements that occur in an emotional support message, the less effective the message is…
A valence-based account of group interaction and decision making
Group participants often develop a range of problem solutions before discussion. We addressed whether, and at what level of analysis, initial opinions influence discussion and perceptions of decision outcomes. The Group Valence Model (GVM) presents a dual-process approach to interaction and decision making as a function of the distribution of supportive and oppositional comments. GVM predicts that discussion reflects individual-level opinions unt…
A Bottom-Up Approach to Examining Group-Level Communication Patterns: A Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis of Functional Group Interaction
Functional perspectives on small discussion groups often focus on either the individual or group level of analysis, but rarely both. Following Borgatta and Bales (1953), I argue that group-level constructs are built from individual actions, and that the distribution of different interaction profiles leads to group-level assessments that are sometimes different from, but based on, assessments made at the individual level. The current study applies…
Estimation and application of the latent group model
Convergence of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes across group meetings
Recent research has addressed the extent to which group communication exhibits intrapersonal and interpersonal characteristics. The most defensible and reasonable view appears to be that group interaction exhibits characteristics that fall somewhere in between, with group interaction revealing evidence of both individual- and group-level processes. Latent group and multilevel approaches were utilized to examine the use of functional communication…
At the Convergence of Input and Process Models of Group Discussion: A Comparison of Participation Rates across Time, Persons, and Groups
We investigate the stability and change of participation patterns in small groups by examining two longitudinal data sets at the individual and group levels of analysis. Rejecting the dichotomy between input and process models, we advance a view at the convergence of these two perspectives. We argue that stability in participation reflects input factors and that change emerges from process mechanisms. Study 1 analyzed discussion data from zero-hi…
Implementation of Tobacco Cessation Quitline Practices in the United States and Canada
Objectives. We examined relationships between implementation of tobacco quitline practices, levels of evidence of practices, and quitline reach and spending. Methods. In June and July 2009, a total of 176 quitline funders and providers in the United States and Canada completed a survey on quitline practices, in particular quitline-level implementation for the reported practices. From these data, we selected and categorized evidence-based and emer…
The calculability of communicative intentions through pragmatic reasoning
We provide conceptual and empirical support for the core tenet in pragmatic theory that speakers make their communicative intention about the pragmatic meaning of their utterances recognizable to hearers. First, we attribute skepticism about this tenet to conceptualizing communicative intentions as private cognitive states that hearers cannot reliably discern. We show it is more parsimonious to conceptualize communicative intention as arising fro…
Mapping Tobacco Quitlines in North America: Signaling Pathways to Improve Treatment
Objectives. This study was designed to better understand how the network of quitlines in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) interact and share new knowledge on quitline practices. Methods. Network relationship data were collected from all 63 publicly funded quitlines in North America, including information sharing, partner trust, and reputation. Results. There was a strong tendency for US and Canadian quitlines to seek information from…
Evaluating Participation in Small Groups: Stimulated Recall, Self-Ratings, and Their Effects on Task-Relevant Judgments
This article examines if different conditions of stimulated recall influence perceptions of task-related competence in small discussion groups. Although the validity of simulated recall has been assessed in educational and interpersonal contexts, it is not clear how features of the method influence the measurement of perceptions at different levels of analysis. Participants worked on a task in groups and then viewed a videotape of the interaction…
Examining Functional Communication as Egocentric or Group-Centric: Application of a Latent Group Model
Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes). Rather than approach the problem as either/or, we assume that functional communication consists of both processes. To explore this assumption, we applied two models that offer contrasting views on this debate—Hewes's (1986, 1996, 2009) soci…
The measurement of reliability of social relations components from round-robin designs
The social relations model (SRM) is a useful tool for measuring relationship effects, defined as the unique perceptions or behaviors of 2 people. The sources of variance in SRM studies are persons (actors and partners), groups, and items; the relationship effect is defined as the actor–partner interaction. By removing variance because of persons and groups, a measure of a “pure” relationship effect is obtained. In this article, generalizability t…
A Different Approach to Answering a Good Question: A Response to Hewes’s Models of Communication Effects on Small Group Outcomes
It is perhaps unsettling (or should be unsettling) to researchers of small-group interaction when someone issues a serious challenge to the claim that communication affects group outcomes, but Hewes (1986, 1996, 2009) should be commended for continuing to question it. He does not claim that communication has no influence on outcomes; rather, that there is simply not sufficient evidence to disprove the negative claim, or, conversely, to rebut the …
Introduction to the Colloquy
Journal Article Introduction to the Colloquy Get access Joseph A. Bonito Joseph A. Bonito 1University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 35, Issue 2, 1 April 2009, Page 248, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01346.x Published: 01 April 2009
The Process of Information Sharing in Small Groups: Application of a Local Model
Members of small groups do not always mention available information, and this leads to inferior decision making. A local model of participation was applied to information sharing discussions to evaluate the extent to which task-relevant judgments are related to comments that contain unique (i.e., data that only one member knows) and shared (i.e., known to all members) information. In addition, the model was applied to only “incorrect” groups, one…
A Local Model of Information Sharing in Small Groups
Journal Article A Local Model of Information Sharing in Small Groups Get access Joseph A. Bonito Joseph A. Bonito 1Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 17, Issue 3, August 2007, Pages 252–280, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00295.x Published: 25 July 2007
A Longitudinal Social Relations Analysis of Participation in Small Groups
Contrary to previous work in which task-related judgments are hypothesized to predict participation in small groups, the current study assumes that participation is both an outcome of and an influence on judgments of task-related ability. In this study, the association between task-relevant judgments and participation was examined at two points in discussion. Results from a path analysis indicated that substantive participation during the first m…
A social relations analysis of participation in small groups
Two approaches to explaining the relation between interaction and participator judgments in small groups are examined. The first, expectations states theory, suggests that participator judgments are consistent across raters for a given target, and that such ratings are a function of the heuristic processing of social information. The second approach, the local management model, assumes more thoughtful processing of members' behaviors, leading to …
Information Processing and Exchange in Mediated Groups: Interdependence and Interaction
This study examined whether features of mediated group discussion were related to participator judgments. Prior to discussion, participants (N = 138) were asked to memorize a list of qualifications for each of 3 hypothetical candidates for a faculty position. Each list contained shared (given to all members) and unique (given to just 1 member) information. Participants, working in 3-person groups, then interacted via 1 of 2 computer text environm…
Testing the Interactivity Principle: Effects of Mediation, Propinquity, and Verbal and Nonverbal Modalities in Interpersonal Interaction
Early channel reliance research compared different modes of communication to assess relationships among nonverbal and verbal cues. Emerging communication technologies represent a new venue for gaining insights into the same relationships. In this article, the authors advance a principle of interactivity as a framework for decomposing some of those relationships and report an experiment in which physical proximity—whether actors are in the same pl…
Speakers' Footing in a Collaborative Writing Task: A Resource for Addressing Disagreement While Avoiding Conflict
It is widely assumed in studies of conflict that either persons address and resolve disagreement by waging conflict or that persons avoid conflict and thereby fail to address disagreements. However, through our analysis of interactions of people engaged in a collaborative writing task, we found a number of instances where steps were taken to avoid waging conflict or to attenuate it when there was disagreement while still addressing the disagreeme…
Participation in Small Groups
This essay reviews the literature on participation in small groups. Studies are distinguished as concerned with (a) identifying social or psychological factors that are assumed to be responsible for distributions of speaking opportunities in groups or (b) assessing the effect of participation hierarchies on group process and outcomes. Five general classes of antecedents are identified: member, group, and task characteristics; technology; and time…
A Local Model of Information Sharing in Small Groups
Journal Article A Local Model of Information Sharing in Small Groups Get access Joseph A. Bonito Joseph A. Bonito 1Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 17, Issue 3, August 2007, Pages 252–280, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00295.x Published: 25 July 2007
Speakers' Footing in a Collaborative Writing Task: A Resource for Addressing Disagreement While Avoiding Conflict
It is widely assumed in studies of conflict that either persons address and resolve disagreement by waging conflict or that persons avoid conflict and thereby fail to address disagreements. However, through our analysis of interactions of people engaged in a collaborative writing task, we found a number of instances where steps were taken to avoid waging conflict or to attenuate it when there was disagreement while still addressing the disagreeme…
Information Processing and Exchange in Mediated Groups: Interdependence and Interaction
This study examined whether features of mediated group discussion were related to participator judgments. Prior to discussion, participants (N = 138) were asked to memorize a list of qualifications for each of 3 hypothetical candidates for a faculty position. Each list contained shared (given to all members) and unique (given to just 1 member) information. Participants, working in 3-person groups, then interacted via 1 of 2 computer text environm…
Examining Functional Communication as Egocentric or Group-Centric: Application of a Latent Group Model
Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes). Rather than approach the problem as either/or, we assume that functional communication consists of both processes. To explore this assumption, we applied two models that offer contrasting views on this debate—Hewes's (1986, 1996, 2009) soci…
A Longitudinal Social Relations Analysis of Participation in Small Groups
Contrary to previous work in which task-related judgments are hypothesized to predict participation in small groups, the current study assumes that participation is both an outcome of and an influence on judgments of task-related ability. In this study, the association between task-relevant judgments and participation was examined at two points in discussion. Results from a path analysis indicated that substantive participation during the first m…
A social relations analysis of participation in small groups
Two approaches to explaining the relation between interaction and participator judgments in small groups are examined. The first, expectations states theory, suggests that participator judgments are consistent across raters for a given target, and that such ratings are a function of the heuristic processing of social information. The second approach, the local management model, assumes more thoughtful processing of members' behaviors, leading to …
At the Convergence of Input and Process Models of Group Discussion: A Comparison of Participation Rates across Time, Persons, and Groups
We investigate the stability and change of participation patterns in small groups by examining two longitudinal data sets at the individual and group levels of analysis. Rejecting the dichotomy between input and process models, we advance a view at the convergence of these two perspectives. We argue that stability in participation reflects input factors and that change emerges from process mechanisms. Study 1 analyzed discussion data from zero-hi…
Mapping Tobacco Quitlines in North America: Signaling Pathways to Improve Treatment
Objectives. This study was designed to better understand how the network of quitlines in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) interact and share new knowledge on quitline practices. Methods. Network relationship data were collected from all 63 publicly funded quitlines in North America, including information sharing, partner trust, and reputation. Results. There was a strong tendency for US and Canadian quitlines to seek information from…
A Different Approach to Answering a Good Question: A Response to Hewes’s Models of Communication Effects on Small Group Outcomes
It is perhaps unsettling (or should be unsettling) to researchers of small-group interaction when someone issues a serious challenge to the claim that communication affects group outcomes, but Hewes (1986, 1996, 2009) should be commended for continuing to question it. He does not claim that communication has no influence on outcomes; rather, that there is simply not sufficient evidence to disprove the negative claim, or, conversely, to rebut the …
A valence-based account of group interaction and decision making
Group participants often develop a range of problem solutions before discussion. We addressed whether, and at what level of analysis, initial opinions influence discussion and perceptions of decision outcomes. The Group Valence Model (GVM) presents a dual-process approach to interaction and decision making as a function of the distribution of supportive and oppositional comments. GVM predicts that discussion reflects individual-level opinions unt…
A Bottom-Up Approach to Examining Group-Level Communication Patterns: A Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis of Functional Group Interaction
Functional perspectives on small discussion groups often focus on either the individual or group level of analysis, but rarely both. Following Borgatta and Bales (1953), I argue that group-level constructs are built from individual actions, and that the distribution of different interaction profiles leads to group-level assessments that are sometimes different from, but based on, assessments made at the individual level. The current study applies…
Convergence of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes across group meetings
Recent research has addressed the extent to which group communication exhibits intrapersonal and interpersonal characteristics. The most defensible and reasonable view appears to be that group interaction exhibits characteristics that fall somewhere in between, with group interaction revealing evidence of both individual- and group-level processes. Latent group and multilevel approaches were utilized to examine the use of functional communication…
Implementation of Tobacco Cessation Quitline Practices in the United States and Canada
Objectives. We examined relationships between implementation of tobacco quitline practices, levels of evidence of practices, and quitline reach and spending. Methods. In June and July 2009, a total of 176 quitline funders and providers in the United States and Canada completed a survey on quitline practices, in particular quitline-level implementation for the reported practices. From these data, we selected and categorized evidence-based and emer…
Participation in Small Groups
This essay reviews the literature on participation in small groups. Studies are distinguished as concerned with (a) identifying social or psychological factors that are assumed to be responsible for distributions of speaking opportunities in groups or (b) assessing the effect of participation hierarchies on group process and outcomes. Five general classes of antecedents are identified: member, group, and task characteristics; technology; and time…
Testing the Interactivity Principle: Effects of Mediation, Propinquity, and Verbal and Nonverbal Modalities in Interpersonal Interaction
Early channel reliance research compared different modes of communication to assess relationships among nonverbal and verbal cues. Emerging communication technologies represent a new venue for gaining insights into the same relationships. In this article, the authors advance a principle of interactivity as a framework for decomposing some of those relationships and report an experiment in which physical proximity—whether actors are in the same pl…
Speakers' Footing in a Collaborative Writing Task: A Resource for Addressing Disagreement While Avoiding Conflict
It is widely assumed in studies of conflict that either persons address and resolve disagreement by waging conflict or that persons avoid conflict and thereby fail to address disagreements. However, through our analysis of interactions of people engaged in a collaborative writing task, we found a number of instances where steps were taken to avoid waging conflict or to attenuate it when there was disagreement while still addressing the disagreeme…
A social relations analysis of participation in small groups
Two approaches to explaining the relation between interaction and participator judgments in small groups are examined. The first, expectations states theory, suggests that participator judgments are consistent across raters for a given target, and that such ratings are a function of the heuristic processing of social information. The second approach, the local management model, assumes more thoughtful processing of members' behaviors, leading to …
Information Processing and Exchange in Mediated Groups: Interdependence and Interaction
This study examined whether features of mediated group discussion were related to participator judgments. Prior to discussion, participants (N = 138) were asked to memorize a list of qualifications for each of 3 hypothetical candidates for a faculty position. Each list contained shared (given to all members) and unique (given to just 1 member) information. Participants, working in 3-person groups, then interacted via 1 of 2 computer text environm…
A Longitudinal Social Relations Analysis of Participation in Small Groups
Contrary to previous work in which task-related judgments are hypothesized to predict participation in small groups, the current study assumes that participation is both an outcome of and an influence on judgments of task-related ability. In this study, the association between task-relevant judgments and participation was examined at two points in discussion. Results from a path analysis indicated that substantive participation during the first m…
A Local Model of Information Sharing in Small Groups
Journal Article A Local Model of Information Sharing in Small Groups Get access Joseph A. Bonito Joseph A. Bonito 1Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 17, Issue 3, August 2007, Pages 252–280, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2007.00295.x Published: 25 July 2007
The Process of Information Sharing in Small Groups: Application of a Local Model
Members of small groups do not always mention available information, and this leads to inferior decision making. A local model of participation was applied to information sharing discussions to evaluate the extent to which task-relevant judgments are related to comments that contain unique (i.e., data that only one member knows) and shared (i.e., known to all members) information. In addition, the model was applied to only “incorrect” groups, one…
A Different Approach to Answering a Good Question: A Response to Hewes’s Models of Communication Effects on Small Group Outcomes
It is perhaps unsettling (or should be unsettling) to researchers of small-group interaction when someone issues a serious challenge to the claim that communication affects group outcomes, but Hewes (1986, 1996, 2009) should be commended for continuing to question it. He does not claim that communication has no influence on outcomes; rather, that there is simply not sufficient evidence to disprove the negative claim, or, conversely, to rebut the …
Introduction to the Colloquy
Journal Article Introduction to the Colloquy Get access Joseph A. Bonito Joseph A. Bonito 1University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 35, Issue 2, 1 April 2009, Page 248, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01346.x Published: 01 April 2009
The measurement of reliability of social relations components from round-robin designs
The social relations model (SRM) is a useful tool for measuring relationship effects, defined as the unique perceptions or behaviors of 2 people. The sources of variance in SRM studies are persons (actors and partners), groups, and items; the relationship effect is defined as the actor–partner interaction. By removing variance because of persons and groups, a measure of a “pure” relationship effect is obtained. In this article, generalizability t…
Evaluating Participation in Small Groups: Stimulated Recall, Self-Ratings, and Their Effects on Task-Relevant Judgments
This article examines if different conditions of stimulated recall influence perceptions of task-related competence in small discussion groups. Although the validity of simulated recall has been assessed in educational and interpersonal contexts, it is not clear how features of the method influence the measurement of perceptions at different levels of analysis. Participants worked on a task in groups and then viewed a videotape of the interaction…
Examining Functional Communication as Egocentric or Group-Centric: Application of a Latent Group Model
Functional communication in small groups is generally treated as a medium (i.e., reflecting and explained by individual proclivities) or as constitutive (i.e., interaction has independent effects on outcomes). Rather than approach the problem as either/or, we assume that functional communication consists of both processes. To explore this assumption, we applied two models that offer contrasting views on this debate—Hewes's (1986, 1996, 2009) soci…
Mapping Tobacco Quitlines in North America: Signaling Pathways to Improve Treatment
Objectives. This study was designed to better understand how the network of quitlines in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) interact and share new knowledge on quitline practices. Methods. Network relationship data were collected from all 63 publicly funded quitlines in North America, including information sharing, partner trust, and reputation. Results. There was a strong tendency for US and Canadian quitlines to seek information from…
The calculability of communicative intentions through pragmatic reasoning
We provide conceptual and empirical support for the core tenet in pragmatic theory that speakers make their communicative intention about the pragmatic meaning of their utterances recognizable to hearers. First, we attribute skepticism about this tenet to conceptualizing communicative intentions as private cognitive states that hearers cannot reliably discern. We show it is more parsimonious to conceptualize communicative intention as arising fro…
At the Convergence of Input and Process Models of Group Discussion: A Comparison of Participation Rates across Time, Persons, and Groups
We investigate the stability and change of participation patterns in small groups by examining two longitudinal data sets at the individual and group levels of analysis. Rejecting the dichotomy between input and process models, we advance a view at the convergence of these two perspectives. We argue that stability in participation reflects input factors and that change emerges from process mechanisms. Study 1 analyzed discussion data from zero-hi…
Implementation of Tobacco Cessation Quitline Practices in the United States and Canada
Objectives. We examined relationships between implementation of tobacco quitline practices, levels of evidence of practices, and quitline reach and spending. Methods. In June and July 2009, a total of 176 quitline funders and providers in the United States and Canada completed a survey on quitline practices, in particular quitline-level implementation for the reported practices. From these data, we selected and categorized evidence-based and emer…
Estimation and application of the latent group model
Convergence of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes across group meetings
Recent research has addressed the extent to which group communication exhibits intrapersonal and interpersonal characteristics. The most defensible and reasonable view appears to be that group interaction exhibits characteristics that fall somewhere in between, with group interaction revealing evidence of both individual- and group-level processes. Latent group and multilevel approaches were utilized to examine the use of functional communication…
A Bottom-Up Approach to Examining Group-Level Communication Patterns: A Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis of Functional Group Interaction
Functional perspectives on small discussion groups often focus on either the individual or group level of analysis, but rarely both. Following Borgatta and Bales (1953), I argue that group-level constructs are built from individual actions, and that the distribution of different interaction profiles leads to group-level assessments that are sometimes different from, but based on, assessments made at the individual level. The current study applies…
Mixed Messages: II. Outcomes Associated with the Proportion and Placement of Negative Statements in Support Messages
Few studies on emotional support have investigated mixed messages – instances when emotional support messages contain both positive and negative statements. Although researchers have recognized that mixed messages occur, most supportive communication research has ignored these ambivalent messages. We contend based on the negativity bias that the more negative statements that occur in an emotional support message, the less effective the message is…
A valence-based account of group interaction and decision making
Group participants often develop a range of problem solutions before discussion. We addressed whether, and at what level of analysis, initial opinions influence discussion and perceptions of decision outcomes. The Group Valence Model (GVM) presents a dual-process approach to interaction and decision making as a function of the distribution of supportive and oppositional comments. GVM predicts that discussion reflects individual-level opinions unt…
Mutual influence in support seeking and provision behaviors during comforting conversations: A turn-level analysis
Mutual influence is central to prominent supportive communication theories but remains understudied. We conduct a turn-level analysis to investigate mutual influence in the unfolding nature of conversations among 334 stranger dyads discussing a personal problem. We examine how the types of messages produced by support seekers influence the immediate response from providers, and how that provider response impacts the next message produced by suppo…
Exploring an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior to Motivate Intentions to Remove Anthropogenic Food Sources in Residential Areas
Anthropogenic food sources in residential areas, including unsecured trash, bird feeders, and fruit trees, can attract wildlife and increase negative human-wildlife interactions. While agencies recommend behaviors to reduce attractants, research on factors driving residents’ intention to comply remains limited. This study applies and extends the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) by testing core constructs (attitude, perceived behavioral control, a…
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