Cameron W Piercy
Biographic Data
| ID | 85473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cameron W Piercy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cameron W |
| FAMILY NAME | Piercy |
| SIGNATURE | PIERCY C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1431-3086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who’s the Fairest of Them All: An Experiment Testing How Source, Outcome, and Process Description Affect Perceived Fairness in Hiring Decisions
Complex technologies are now a ubiquitous part of hiring processes. This experiment tests how potential job applicants perceive hiring decisions based on outcome (acceptance or rejection), decision source (algorithm, hiring manager, hiring manager using algorithmic data), and description (none, definitional, or debiasing) with 246 working-age adults in the United States. Drawing on hiring literature and the machine heuristic, we pose hypotheses a…
Normalizing AI: The Evanishing Effect and Rethinking the Machine Heuristic
This study examines how people evaluate factual claims attributed to human journalists versus artificial intelligence (AI) news bots, and how these evaluations are shaped by individual endorsement of the machine heuristic. An online experiment (N = 233) used a 2 (Agent: human vs. AI) × 2 (Information Veracity: accurate vs. inaccurate) design in which participants viewed a short tweet embedded in either a human or AI profile and then rated percept…
Big five traits and self-determination in preferences for working in person: The moderating role of communication overload
Purpose This study examines how Big Five traits and self-determination needs influence employees' return-to-office preferences after mandatory remote work, and how communication overload (CO) moderates these relationships. Design/methodology/approach A survey of 301 full-time US employees was analyzed using hierarchical regression and PROCESS moderation models. Findings Extraversion and relatedness related to in-person preference, while conscient…
Socio-Technical Exchange with Machines: Worker Experiences with Complex Work Technologies
Machines are now commonplace work partners and Human-Machine Communication (HMC) is part of modern work. Guided by the machine heuristic and Social Exchange Theory (SET) this paper uses interviews with 22 workers to explore the socio-technical relationships between humans and machines at work. Participants worked with complex machines across a wide variety of industries and roles and findings reveal participants see machines as part of the work e…
Gender and accent stereotypes in communication with an intelligent virtual assistant
Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction
This study analyzes survey data from 206 trans workers to test the premises of crystallized self theory by exploring how perceived authenticity and identity communication (i.e., explicit outness, implicit outness, and covering) relate to job and life satisfaction. Perceived authenticity was positively related to explicit outness (overt communication sharing trans identity) and implicit outness (advocacy for trans issues), and negatively to coveri…
Exploring Gender Identity Cues in Email Signature Blocks: An Experimental Study
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…
Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: The Effects of Outgroup Self-Presentation and Ingroup Accommodation
This experiment examines whether exposure to outgroup members' self-presentation on Facebook and ingroup members' accommodative versus nonaccommodative responses influence perceptions of outgroup members' social attractiveness and attitudes toward the target outgroup. U.S. college students ( N = 865) saw one of four fictitious Facebook pages with wall posts representing a Chinese international student's self-presentation (positive vs. negative) a…
A Typology of Reasoning in Deliberative Processes: A Study of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review
Deliberative democracy processes encourage people to engage in thoughtful analysis and well-reasoned discussion about a public issue. Though scholarship examining deliberative forums has expanded greatly in recent years, there is still much to learn about information processing in deliberation – more specifically, how citizens express different forms of reasoning, and how they voice disagreement with their fellow participants. To more closely exa…
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context
A Typology of Reasoning in Deliberative Processes: A Study of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Deliberative democracy processes encourage people to engage in thoughtful analysis and well-reasoned discussion about a public issue. Though scholarship examining deliberative forums has expanded greatly in recent years, there is still much to learn about information processing in deliberation – more specifically, how citizens express different forms of reasoning, and h…
Automation Anxieties: Perceptions About Technological Automation and the Future of Pharmacy Work
This study uses a sample of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (N = 240) who differ in skill, education, and income to replicate and extend past findings about socioeconomic disparities in the perceptions of automation. Specifically, this study applies the skills-biased technical change hypothesis, an economic theory that low-skill jobs are the most likely to be affected by increased automation (Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2019), to the mental models …
What Will They Think If I Post This? Risks and Returns for Political Expression Across Platforms
Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of relationships as well as share different aspects of their identity by expressing their views on numerous topics, including politics. SNS also come with perceived interpersonal risks and benefits tied to sharing with a collapsed networked audience. Using a nationally representative sample of US social media users ( N = 2,873) from 2016, this study investigated …
Employer reviews may say as much about the employee as they do the employer: Online disclosures, organizational attachments, and unethical behavior
Do reviews on organizational review websites (e.g., Indeed.com, GlassDoor.com) speak to the employer or the employee? This study tests the structural relationship between cognitive and affective organizational attachments and three outcomes: willingness to disclose one’s workplace online, unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), and workplace reviews. Using a national sample of U.S. workers (N = 304), we examine how organizational identificat…
The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group's Local Agency
Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with mental illness. Through a case study of a volunteer mental illness advocacy group, the authors employed a duality analysis on a variety of data collected from the case (i.e., interviews, organizational documents, and community he…
A typology of job search sources: Exploring the changing nature of job search networks
This study explored American job seekers’ network of information sources using a random sample. Results revealed a pattern that job seekers segmented information sources by social (i.e. personal and professional acquaintances, family, and friends), formal (i.e. employment agencies, printed advertisements, and career events), and online (i.e. online pages and social network sites) types. Although online sources were particularly central in the net…
What Will They Think If I Post This? Risks and Returns for Political Expression Across Platforms
Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of relationships as well as share different aspects of their identity by expressing their views on numerous topics, including politics. SNS also come with perceived interpersonal risks and benefits tied to sharing with a collapsed networked audience. Using a nationally representative sample of US social media users ( N = 2,873) from 2016, this study investigated …
A typology of job search sources: Exploring the changing nature of job search networks
This study explored American job seekers’ network of information sources using a random sample. Results revealed a pattern that job seekers segmented information sources by social (i.e. personal and professional acquaintances, family, and friends), formal (i.e. employment agencies, printed advertisements, and career events), and online (i.e. online pages and social network sites) types. Although online sources were particularly central in the net…
Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: The Effects of Outgroup Self-Presentation and Ingroup Accommodation
This experiment examines whether exposure to outgroup members' self-presentation on Facebook and ingroup members' accommodative versus nonaccommodative responses influence perceptions of outgroup members' social attractiveness and attitudes toward the target outgroup. U.S. college students ( N = 865) saw one of four fictitious Facebook pages with wall posts representing a Chinese international student's self-presentation (positive vs. negative) a…
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context
A typology of job search sources: Exploring the changing nature of job search networks
This study explored American job seekers’ network of information sources using a random sample. Results revealed a pattern that job seekers segmented information sources by social (i.e. personal and professional acquaintances, family, and friends), formal (i.e. employment agencies, printed advertisements, and career events), and online (i.e. online pages and social network sites) types. Although online sources were particularly central in the net…
The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group's Local Agency
Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with mental illness. Through a case study of a volunteer mental illness advocacy group, the authors employed a duality analysis on a variety of data collected from the case (i.e., interviews, organizational documents, and community he…
Employer reviews may say as much about the employee as they do the employer: Online disclosures, organizational attachments, and unethical behavior
Do reviews on organizational review websites (e.g., Indeed.com, GlassDoor.com) speak to the employer or the employee? This study tests the structural relationship between cognitive and affective organizational attachments and three outcomes: willingness to disclose one’s workplace online, unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), and workplace reviews. Using a national sample of U.S. workers (N = 304), we examine how organizational identificat…
A Typology of Reasoning in Deliberative Processes: A Study of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Deliberative democracy processes encourage people to engage in thoughtful analysis and well-reasoned discussion about a public issue. Though scholarship examining deliberative forums has expanded greatly in recent years, there is still much to learn about information processing in deliberation – more specifically, how citizens express different forms of reasoning, and h…
Automation Anxieties: Perceptions About Technological Automation and the Future of Pharmacy Work
This study uses a sample of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (N = 240) who differ in skill, education, and income to replicate and extend past findings about socioeconomic disparities in the perceptions of automation. Specifically, this study applies the skills-biased technical change hypothesis, an economic theory that low-skill jobs are the most likely to be affected by increased automation (Acemoglu & Restrepo, 2019), to the mental models …
What Will They Think If I Post This? Risks and Returns for Political Expression Across Platforms
Social networking sites (SNSs) allow individuals to establish and maintain a variety of relationships as well as share different aspects of their identity by expressing their views on numerous topics, including politics. SNS also come with perceived interpersonal risks and benefits tied to sharing with a collapsed networked audience. Using a nationally representative sample of US social media users ( N = 2,873) from 2016, this study investigated …
A Typology of Reasoning in Deliberative Processes: A Study of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review
Deliberative democracy processes encourage people to engage in thoughtful analysis and well-reasoned discussion about a public issue. Though scholarship examining deliberative forums has expanded greatly in recent years, there is still much to learn about information processing in deliberation – more specifically, how citizens express different forms of reasoning, and how they voice disagreement with their fellow participants. To more closely exa…
Status shields and pharmacy work: Differences among workers by role and context
Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: The Effects of Outgroup Self-Presentation and Ingroup Accommodation
This experiment examines whether exposure to outgroup members' self-presentation on Facebook and ingroup members' accommodative versus nonaccommodative responses influence perceptions of outgroup members' social attractiveness and attitudes toward the target outgroup. U.S. college students ( N = 865) saw one of four fictitious Facebook pages with wall posts representing a Chinese international student's self-presentation (positive vs. negative) a…
Socio-Technical Exchange with Machines: Worker Experiences with Complex Work Technologies
Machines are now commonplace work partners and Human-Machine Communication (HMC) is part of modern work. Guided by the machine heuristic and Social Exchange Theory (SET) this paper uses interviews with 22 workers to explore the socio-technical relationships between humans and machines at work. Participants worked with complex machines across a wide variety of industries and roles and findings reveal participants see machines as part of the work e…
Gender and accent stereotypes in communication with an intelligent virtual assistant
Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction
This study analyzes survey data from 206 trans workers to test the premises of crystallized self theory by exploring how perceived authenticity and identity communication (i.e., explicit outness, implicit outness, and covering) relate to job and life satisfaction. Perceived authenticity was positively related to explicit outness (overt communication sharing trans identity) and implicit outness (advocacy for trans issues), and negatively to coveri…
Exploring Gender Identity Cues in Email Signature Blocks: An Experimental Study
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…
Who’s the Fairest of Them All: An Experiment Testing How Source, Outcome, and Process Description Affect Perceived Fairness in Hiring Decisions
Complex technologies are now a ubiquitous part of hiring processes. This experiment tests how potential job applicants perceive hiring decisions based on outcome (acceptance or rejection), decision source (algorithm, hiring manager, hiring manager using algorithmic data), and description (none, definitional, or debiasing) with 246 working-age adults in the United States. Drawing on hiring literature and the machine heuristic, we pose hypotheses a…
Normalizing AI: The Evanishing Effect and Rethinking the Machine Heuristic
This study examines how people evaluate factual claims attributed to human journalists versus artificial intelligence (AI) news bots, and how these evaluations are shaped by individual endorsement of the machine heuristic. An online experiment (N = 233) used a 2 (Agent: human vs. AI) × 2 (Information Veracity: accurate vs. inaccurate) design in which participants viewed a short tweet embedded in either a human or AI profile and then rated percept…
Big five traits and self-determination in preferences for working in person: The moderating role of communication overload
Purpose This study examines how Big Five traits and self-determination needs influence employees' return-to-office preferences after mandatory remote work, and how communication overload (CO) moderates these relationships. Design/methodology/approach A survey of 301 full-time US employees was analyzed using hierarchical regression and PROCESS moderation models. Findings Extraversion and relatedness related to in-person preference, while conscient…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Job satisfaction (3 works)