Graham D Bodie
Biographic Data
| ID | 649489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham D Bodie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bodie |
| SIGNATURE | BODIE G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5492-2815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Rethinking the Role of Attention in Listening Theories and Practice
Despite decades of theorizing, attention remains a central but underexamined construct in listening research. Revisiting attention as both a gate and a gradient reframes how listening is understood, measured, and taught. We propose that listening competence cannot be fully explained by attentional control alone and that pedagogical approaches should incorporate strategies for accessing and retraining intuitive listening habits, not simply intensi…
How are Conversations via an On-Demand Peer-To-Peer Emotional Well-Being App Associated with Emotional Improvement
Non-clinical, on-demand peer-to-peer (PtP) support apps have become increasingly popular over the past several years. Although not as pervasive as general self-help apps, these PtP support apps are usually free and instantly connect individuals through live texting with a non-clinical volunteer who has been minimally trained to listen and offer support. To date, there is little empirical work that examines whether and how using an on-demand PtP s…
Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation
Listening, Community Engagement, and Peacebuilding
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Conversation
Conversations between people are where, among other things, stressors are amplified and attenuated, conflicts are entrenched and resolved, and goals are advanced and thwarted. What happens in dyads’ back-and-forth exchanges to produce such consequential and varied outcomes? Although numerous theories in communication and in social psychology address this question, empirical tests of these theories often operationalize conversational behavior usin…
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions
This study demonstrates how sequence analysis, which is a method for identifying common patterns in categorical time series data, illuminates the nonlinear dynamics of dyadic conversations by describing chains of behavior that shift categorically, rather than incrementally. When applied to interpersonal interactions, sequence analysis supports the identification of conversational motifs, which can be used to test hypotheses linking patterns of in…
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication
This article articulates conceptual and methodological strategies for studying the dynamic structure of dyadic interaction revealed by the turn-to-turn exchange of messages between partners. Using dyadic time series data that capture partners’ back-and-forth contributions to conversations, dynamic dyadic systems analysis illuminates how individuals act and react to each other as they jointly construct conversations. Five layers of inquiry are off…
Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations
This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types of speaking turns, (b) listener turn types vary…
Mapping the terrain of person-centered supportive conversations
This study explores the conversational terrain of supportive conversations that vary in person centeredness (PC). Our team transcribed and unitized 223 conversations in which a discloser talked about an upsetting event to a listener trained to exhibit either low (LPC), moderate (MPC), or highly person-centered (HPC) comfort. Each utterance was coded for PC with a modified version of the traditional nine-level hierarchy. HPC-coded turns comprised …
The Stuff That Verbal Person-Centered Support Is Made of
Although the functions of messages varying in verbal person centeredness (PC) are well-established, we know less about the linguistic content that differentiates messages with distinct levels of PC. This study examines the lexicon of different levels of PC comfort and seeks to ascertain whether computerized analysis can complement human coders when coding supportive conversations. Transcripts from support providers trained to enact low, moderate,…
Language use and style matching in supportive conversations between strangers and friends
Using data from individuals disclosing a personally relevant and problematic event to either a stranger ( N = 151) or friend ( N = 119), this study explored whether emotion and cognitive mechanism words produced by the discloser and the language style matching (LSM) of interlocutors influenced the reappraisal process necessary to feel better. Results showed that positive emotion words and LSM influenced reported emotional improvement through the …
Connections Between Family Communication Patterns, Person-Centered Message Evaluations, and Emotion Regulation Strategies
In this study, we theorize that family communication patterns (FCPs) and 2 emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and suppression) explain variations in person-centered (PC) supportive message evaluations. Specifically, we forward an emotion regulation model that predicts reappraisal and suppression will mediate the relation between FCPs and PC message evaluations. Results (N = 361) suggest that conversation orientation positively predicted r…
I Says to Myself, Says I”
Peirce famously defined the process of thinking as what a person is “‘saying to himself,’ that is, is saying to that other self that is just coming into life in the flow of time.” For Peirce, this meant the essence of thinking is dialogue. This essay proposes a conception of dialogue grounded in Peirce's normative ideal of inquiry that challenges contemporary thinking about dialogue yet supports the same moral and ethical aims. Using a scene from…
Examining the Construct Validity of Enacted Support
Scholars of supportive communication are primarily concerned with how variations in the quality of enacted support affect individual and relational health and well-being. But who gets to determine what counts as enacted support? There is a large degree of operational heterogeneity for what gets called enacted support, but little attention has been afforded to the issue of whether these assessments are substitutable. In two studies we use self-rep…
Listening, Hearing, Sensing
Journal Article Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce Get access Graham D. Bodie, Graham D. Bodie 1Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nathan Crick Nathan Crick 2Department of Communication, Texas AM University, College Station, …
An Analysis of the Correspondence Between Imagined Interaction Attributes and Functions
Imagined interaction (II) theory has been productive for communication and social cognition scholarship. There is, however, a yet untested assumption within II theory that the 8 attributes are related to all 6 functions and that II functions can be compared and contrasted in terms of II attributes. In addition, there is little research exploring the multidimensional nature of functions and attributes. This article tests the internal structure of …
Explaining the Relationships among Supportive Message Quality, Evaluations, and Outcomes
Research on supportive communication has been concerned with two primary classes of dependent variables. Message evaluations refer to judgments about the supportive message and/or the sender of that message, and message outcomes refer to cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of messages. Most studies have utilized variables from one or the other class with less attention paid to the association between evaluations and outcomes. Indeed, the…
Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Emotional Upset on Processing Supportive Messages
We report tests of hypotheses derived from a theory of supportive communication outcomes that maintains the effects of supportive messages are moderated by factors influencing the motivation and ability to process these messages. Participants in two studies completed a measure of cognitive complexity, which provided an assessment of processing ability, and reported their degree of upset with a problem situation, which was hypothesized to impact b…
Explaining Gender Differences in Responses to Supportive Messages
Explaining Variations in the Effects of Supportive Messages A Dual-Process Framework
Although some recipients benefit from exposure to sophisticated and sensitive support messages, the effects of these messages are moderated (sometimes substantially) by characteristics of the recipient, the helper, and the situation. Thus, enhancing the success of helpers who provide support requires a comprehensive explanation of why support messages are effective in some circumstances but less effective in others. To understand why supportive m…
Bereaved Adults' Evaluations of Grief Management Messages
This study identifies grief management strategies that bereaved adults evaluate as more and less helpful, assesses whether the person centeredness of these strategies explains their helpfulness, and determines whether strategy helpfulness varies as a function of demographic, personality, and situational factors. Participants (105 bereaved young adults) assessed the helpfulness of 16 grief management strategies; these strategies were coded for the…
Explaining the Relationships among Supportive Message Quality, Evaluations, and Outcomes
Research on supportive communication has been concerned with two primary classes of dependent variables. Message evaluations refer to judgments about the supportive message and/or the sender of that message, and message outcomes refer to cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of messages. Most studies have utilized variables from one or the other class with less attention paid to the association between evaluations and outcomes. Indeed, the…
Mapping the terrain of person-centered supportive conversations
This study explores the conversational terrain of supportive conversations that vary in person centeredness (PC). Our team transcribed and unitized 223 conversations in which a discloser talked about an upsetting event to a listener trained to exhibit either low (LPC), moderate (MPC), or highly person-centered (HPC) comfort. Each utterance was coded for PC with a modified version of the traditional nine-level hierarchy. HPC-coded turns comprised …
Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Emotional Upset on Processing Supportive Messages
We report tests of hypotheses derived from a theory of supportive communication outcomes that maintains the effects of supportive messages are moderated by factors influencing the motivation and ability to process these messages. Participants in two studies completed a measure of cognitive complexity, which provided an assessment of processing ability, and reported their degree of upset with a problem situation, which was hypothesized to impact b…
Explaining Variations in the Effects of Supportive Messages A Dual-Process Framework
Although some recipients benefit from exposure to sophisticated and sensitive support messages, the effects of these messages are moderated (sometimes substantially) by characteristics of the recipient, the helper, and the situation. Thus, enhancing the success of helpers who provide support requires a comprehensive explanation of why support messages are effective in some circumstances but less effective in others. To understand why supportive m…
Language use and style matching in supportive conversations between strangers and friends
Using data from individuals disclosing a personally relevant and problematic event to either a stranger ( N = 151) or friend ( N = 119), this study explored whether emotion and cognitive mechanism words produced by the discloser and the language style matching (LSM) of interlocutors influenced the reappraisal process necessary to feel better. Results showed that positive emotion words and LSM influenced reported emotional improvement through the …
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions
This study demonstrates how sequence analysis, which is a method for identifying common patterns in categorical time series data, illuminates the nonlinear dynamics of dyadic conversations by describing chains of behavior that shift categorically, rather than incrementally. When applied to interpersonal interactions, sequence analysis supports the identification of conversational motifs, which can be used to test hypotheses linking patterns of in…
Explaining Gender Differences in Responses to Supportive Messages
Bereaved Adults' Evaluations of Grief Management Messages
This study identifies grief management strategies that bereaved adults evaluate as more and less helpful, assesses whether the person centeredness of these strategies explains their helpfulness, and determines whether strategy helpfulness varies as a function of demographic, personality, and situational factors. Participants (105 bereaved young adults) assessed the helpfulness of 16 grief management strategies; these strategies were coded for the…
Listening, Hearing, Sensing
Journal Article Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce Get access Graham D. Bodie, Graham D. Bodie 1Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nathan Crick Nathan Crick 2Department of Communication, Texas AM University, College Station, …
Connections Between Family Communication Patterns, Person-Centered Message Evaluations, and Emotion Regulation Strategies
In this study, we theorize that family communication patterns (FCPs) and 2 emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and suppression) explain variations in person-centered (PC) supportive message evaluations. Specifically, we forward an emotion regulation model that predicts reappraisal and suppression will mediate the relation between FCPs and PC message evaluations. Results (N = 361) suggest that conversation orientation positively predicted r…
An Analysis of the Correspondence Between Imagined Interaction Attributes and Functions
Imagined interaction (II) theory has been productive for communication and social cognition scholarship. There is, however, a yet untested assumption within II theory that the 8 attributes are related to all 6 functions and that II functions can be compared and contrasted in terms of II attributes. In addition, there is little research exploring the multidimensional nature of functions and attributes. This article tests the internal structure of …
Examining the Construct Validity of Enacted Support
Scholars of supportive communication are primarily concerned with how variations in the quality of enacted support affect individual and relational health and well-being. But who gets to determine what counts as enacted support? There is a large degree of operational heterogeneity for what gets called enacted support, but little attention has been afforded to the issue of whether these assessments are substitutable. In two studies we use self-rep…
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Conversation
Conversations between people are where, among other things, stressors are amplified and attenuated, conflicts are entrenched and resolved, and goals are advanced and thwarted. What happens in dyads’ back-and-forth exchanges to produce such consequential and varied outcomes? Although numerous theories in communication and in social psychology address this question, empirical tests of these theories often operationalize conversational behavior usin…
Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations
This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types of speaking turns, (b) listener turn types vary…
The Stuff That Verbal Person-Centered Support Is Made of
Although the functions of messages varying in verbal person centeredness (PC) are well-established, we know less about the linguistic content that differentiates messages with distinct levels of PC. This study examines the lexicon of different levels of PC comfort and seeks to ascertain whether computerized analysis can complement human coders when coding supportive conversations. Transcripts from support providers trained to enact low, moderate,…
Explaining Variations in the Effects of Supportive Messages A Dual-Process Framework
Although some recipients benefit from exposure to sophisticated and sensitive support messages, the effects of these messages are moderated (sometimes substantially) by characteristics of the recipient, the helper, and the situation. Thus, enhancing the success of helpers who provide support requires a comprehensive explanation of why support messages are effective in some circumstances but less effective in others. To understand why supportive m…
Bereaved Adults' Evaluations of Grief Management Messages
This study identifies grief management strategies that bereaved adults evaluate as more and less helpful, assesses whether the person centeredness of these strategies explains their helpfulness, and determines whether strategy helpfulness varies as a function of demographic, personality, and situational factors. Participants (105 bereaved young adults) assessed the helpfulness of 16 grief management strategies; these strategies were coded for the…
Explaining Gender Differences in Responses to Supportive Messages
Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Emotional Upset on Processing Supportive Messages
We report tests of hypotheses derived from a theory of supportive communication outcomes that maintains the effects of supportive messages are moderated by factors influencing the motivation and ability to process these messages. Participants in two studies completed a measure of cognitive complexity, which provided an assessment of processing ability, and reported their degree of upset with a problem situation, which was hypothesized to impact b…
Explaining the Relationships among Supportive Message Quality, Evaluations, and Outcomes
Research on supportive communication has been concerned with two primary classes of dependent variables. Message evaluations refer to judgments about the supportive message and/or the sender of that message, and message outcomes refer to cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of messages. Most studies have utilized variables from one or the other class with less attention paid to the association between evaluations and outcomes. Indeed, the…
An Analysis of the Correspondence Between Imagined Interaction Attributes and Functions
Imagined interaction (II) theory has been productive for communication and social cognition scholarship. There is, however, a yet untested assumption within II theory that the 8 attributes are related to all 6 functions and that II functions can be compared and contrasted in terms of II attributes. In addition, there is little research exploring the multidimensional nature of functions and attributes. This article tests the internal structure of …
Examining the Construct Validity of Enacted Support
Scholars of supportive communication are primarily concerned with how variations in the quality of enacted support affect individual and relational health and well-being. But who gets to determine what counts as enacted support? There is a large degree of operational heterogeneity for what gets called enacted support, but little attention has been afforded to the issue of whether these assessments are substitutable. In two studies we use self-rep…
Listening, Hearing, Sensing
Journal Article Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce Get access Graham D. Bodie, Graham D. Bodie 1Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nathan Crick Nathan Crick 2Department of Communication, Texas AM University, College Station, …
I Says to Myself, Says I”
Peirce famously defined the process of thinking as what a person is “‘saying to himself,’ that is, is saying to that other self that is just coming into life in the flow of time.” For Peirce, this meant the essence of thinking is dialogue. This essay proposes a conception of dialogue grounded in Peirce's normative ideal of inquiry that challenges contemporary thinking about dialogue yet supports the same moral and ethical aims. Using a scene from…
Language use and style matching in supportive conversations between strangers and friends
Using data from individuals disclosing a personally relevant and problematic event to either a stranger ( N = 151) or friend ( N = 119), this study explored whether emotion and cognitive mechanism words produced by the discloser and the language style matching (LSM) of interlocutors influenced the reappraisal process necessary to feel better. Results showed that positive emotion words and LSM influenced reported emotional improvement through the …
Connections Between Family Communication Patterns, Person-Centered Message Evaluations, and Emotion Regulation Strategies
In this study, we theorize that family communication patterns (FCPs) and 2 emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and suppression) explain variations in person-centered (PC) supportive message evaluations. Specifically, we forward an emotion regulation model that predicts reappraisal and suppression will mediate the relation between FCPs and PC message evaluations. Results (N = 361) suggest that conversation orientation positively predicted r…
Mapping the terrain of person-centered supportive conversations
This study explores the conversational terrain of supportive conversations that vary in person centeredness (PC). Our team transcribed and unitized 223 conversations in which a discloser talked about an upsetting event to a listener trained to exhibit either low (LPC), moderate (MPC), or highly person-centered (HPC) comfort. Each utterance was coded for PC with a modified version of the traditional nine-level hierarchy. HPC-coded turns comprised …
The Stuff That Verbal Person-Centered Support Is Made of
Although the functions of messages varying in verbal person centeredness (PC) are well-established, we know less about the linguistic content that differentiates messages with distinct levels of PC. This study examines the lexicon of different levels of PC comfort and seeks to ascertain whether computerized analysis can complement human coders when coding supportive conversations. Transcripts from support providers trained to enact low, moderate,…
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication
This article articulates conceptual and methodological strategies for studying the dynamic structure of dyadic interaction revealed by the turn-to-turn exchange of messages between partners. Using dyadic time series data that capture partners’ back-and-forth contributions to conversations, dynamic dyadic systems analysis illuminates how individuals act and react to each other as they jointly construct conversations. Five layers of inquiry are off…
Discovering the Fabric of Supportive Conversations
This study examines messages that problem disclosers and supportive listeners enact during conversations about everyday stressors. We coded 402 dyadic interactions between strangers, friends, and romantic couples using Stiles’s (1992) verbal response modes (VRM) and Burleson’s (1982) verbal person centeredness (PC) typology to explore whether (a) listener and discloser utterances coalesce into types of speaking turns, (b) listener turn types vary…
Using Sequence Analysis to Identify Conversational Motifs in Supportive Interactions
This study demonstrates how sequence analysis, which is a method for identifying common patterns in categorical time series data, illuminates the nonlinear dynamics of dyadic conversations by describing chains of behavior that shift categorically, rather than incrementally. When applied to interpersonal interactions, sequence analysis supports the identification of conversational motifs, which can be used to test hypotheses linking patterns of in…
Listening, Community Engagement, and Peacebuilding
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Perspective on Interpersonal Conversation
Conversations between people are where, among other things, stressors are amplified and attenuated, conflicts are entrenched and resolved, and goals are advanced and thwarted. What happens in dyads’ back-and-forth exchanges to produce such consequential and varied outcomes? Although numerous theories in communication and in social psychology address this question, empirical tests of these theories often operationalize conversational behavior usin…
Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation
How are Conversations via an On-Demand Peer-To-Peer Emotional Well-Being App Associated with Emotional Improvement
Non-clinical, on-demand peer-to-peer (PtP) support apps have become increasingly popular over the past several years. Although not as pervasive as general self-help apps, these PtP support apps are usually free and instantly connect individuals through live texting with a non-clinical volunteer who has been minimally trained to listen and offer support. To date, there is little empirical work that examines whether and how using an on-demand PtP s…
Rethinking the Role of Attention in Listening Theories and Practice
Despite decades of theorizing, attention remains a central but underexamined construct in listening research. Revisiting attention as both a gate and a gradient reframes how listening is understood, measured, and taught. We propose that listening competence cannot be fully explained by attentional control alone and that pedagogical approaches should incorporate strategies for accessing and retraining intuitive listening habits, not simply intensi…
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