Steven R Wilson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 87236 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven R Wilson |
| NOMBRES | Steven R |
| APELLIDO | Wilson |
| FIRMA | WILSON S R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5694-3882 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 316 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Difficult Health Conversations
During the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, public health officials in the United States called upon vaccinated individuals to encourage reluctant family members to get vaccinated. Due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic becoming politically polarized, encouraging a loved one to get vaccinated could create a difficult conversation that was emotionally charged and accentuated ingroup/outgroup dynamics. Using normative rhetorical theory as a theoretical …
Developing Measures for and Testing the Theory of Communicative Disenfranchisement (TCD) in the Context of Chronic Pain
The post-positivist articulation of the theory of communicative disenfranchisement (TCD) asserts that people subjected to disenfranchising talk (DT; talk that discredits, silences, and stereotypes) experience proximal consequences (PCs; reduced agency, perceived credibility, and ability to exercise rights and privileges) and make negative inferences about others' future interactional goals (negative goal inferences [NGIs]). Through the mediators …
How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behaviour
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the Covid-19 pandemic
This longitudinal study explored associations between communication resilience processes, job-search self-efficacy, and well-being for a sample of US adults who involuntarily lost their jobs during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the communication theory of resilience (CTR), we tested four possible models regarding how the enactment of resilience processes would be associated with job-search self-efficacy and well-being over ti…
Memorable Messages as Anticipatory Resilience
Memorable messages oftentimes are associated with hope, can foster anticipatory resilience prior to the experience of disruptive events, and can buffer the negative impact of adverse experiences on mental health. However, associations among memorable messages, engagement in resilience processes, and mental health have not been examined. Drawing from the communication theory of resilience (CTR), analyses of data from 262 Chinese adults suggested t…
Worry About Covid-19, Acquiring Health Information, and Communication Resilience Processes
Integrating concepts from the communication theory of resilience (CTR) with theories of health information management and media-stimulated interpersonal conversation, this study investigates associations between worry about COVID-19, acquiring health information from government, news, and personal sources, and enactment of resilience processes. Findings from a representative sample (N = 600) of Floridians show that the extent to which people worr…
Family Communication Patterns Predict Anticipatory Resilience and the Enactment of Resilience Processes
The communication theory of resilience (CTR; Buzzanell, 2010 Buzzanell, P. M. (2010). Resilience: Talking, resisting, and imagining new normalcies into being. The Journal of Communication, 60(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01469.x[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2019 Buzzanell, P. M. (2019). Communication theory of resilience in everyday talk, interactions, and network structures. In S. R. Wilson & S. W. Smit…
A goals-plans-action model analysis of messages encouraging hesitant family members in the United States to get vaccinated for Covid-19
Making sense of changes in military partners' post-deployment adjustment concern
Reintegration after a military service member returns home from deployment is a time of uncertainty that requires adjustment by all family members. Building on accounts (i.e., story-like constructions that help make sense of stressful events) scholarship, this study documents (a) turning points (TPs) and (b) patterns in partners' levels of concern about post-deployment adjustment and investigates (c) how romantic partners account for why changes …
Development and validation of a culturally adapted measure of communication resilience processes for Chinese contexts
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale
According to the communication theory of resilience (CTR; P. M. Buzzanell, 2010), people reintegrate from disruptive events and construct a new normal through five interrelated processes: (a) crafting normalcy; (b) affirming identity anchors; (c) maintaining/using communication networks; (d) constructing alternative logics; and (e) foregrounding productive action while backgrounding negative emotions. Enacting these processes creates tensions bet…
Theorizing disenfranchisement as a communicative process
This essay lays initial groundwork for a theory of communicative disenfranchisement (TCD), which explores what occurs when individuals’ experiences, identities, and relationships are discredited (i.e., not treated as “real”) by others and how such talk disempowers them and alters their perceptions of future interactions. Five key assumptions of TCD advocate: (1) attending to power; (2) considering discursive and material conditions and their hist…
Theory of Motivated Information Management
The theory of motivated information management ([TMIM]; Afifi & Weiner, 2004) was proposed to explicate the processes through which uncertainty motivates information management. Over the past 15 years, the theory has been tested and applied to a wide range of topics and contexts. The current study meta-analyzes 33 studies from 31 articles that have empirically tested predictions from TMIM. Potential moderating effects of age, issue importance, an…
Explicating dimensions of family marginalization and types of marginalized family members
Marginalized family members feel different from and are often disapproved of or excluded by multiple family members. These feelings arise from interactions that create relational distance. Although being marginalized from one's family typically is a chronically stressful process, the ways in which marginalization is accomplished likely varies across individuals, families, and/or time. Guided by social identification and confirmation theories, we …
Chinese International Undergraduate Students’ English Language Ability, Advice From Domestic and International Friends, and Psychosocial Adjustment to College
This study explores how advice from friends predicts Chinese international students’ college adjustment. First-year international Chinese ( N = 95) undergraduates reported on their English language ability (ELA), advice seeking and evaluation with domestic and international friends, and psychosocial adjustment. Chinese students with lower self-reported ELA sought advice from their closest domestic friend less often, perceived advice from that fri…
Comparing Advice from Military Parents, Partners, and Veterans about How Families Can Encourage Service Members to Seek Behavioral Health care
This study compared advice that three groups—military parents, partners, and Veterans—gave regarding how military families can encourage service members (SMs) to seek professional help when needed. Based on identity implications theory and the normative model of social support, common themes regarding how families might pursue task, relational, and identity goals were expected (RQ1). Based on their unique positions, we investigated whether the th…
A Meta-Analysis of Uncertainty and Information Management in Illness Contexts
This study meta-analyzes 32 studies that examined uncertainty’s effects on anxiety and information management within a variety of illness contexts (e.g., cancer, sexually transmitted disease, heart disease). Results indicate that the direction and magnitude of uncertainty’s effects vary for different information management strategies. Illness uncertainty is strongly, positively associated with anxiety and avoidance. In contrast, the average effec…
Privacy Management in the Military Family during Deployment
This study examines military adolescents’ experiences of managing private information within their families during a parental deployment. Thirty-eight adolescents were interviewed about how they and their families managed private information across the deployment cycle. Our interviewees suggested that when a deployment occurs: (a) family members should limit the information that they share with the deployed parent about events at home, (b) childr…
Do Family Communication Patterns Buffer Children from Difficulties Associated with a Parent's Military Deployment? Examining Deployed and At-home Parents’ Perspectives
Based on models of family resiliency, this study explored whether deployed and at-home parents’ reports of family communication patterns were associated with reported child difficulties and prosocial behavior during a military parent's deployment. Participants were National Guard families attending yellow-ribbon reintegration events. Parents completed the Revised Family Communication Patterns short-form measure as well as the Strengths and Diffic…
Identifying Communities in Need
Utilizing a cognitive appraisal approach, this study examines how acculturation affects racial minority members' appraisals of and responses to racial discrimination. Racial minority members (N = 345) completed questionnaires about their prior experiences with racial discrimination and coping responses. Controlling for participants' prior experiences with racial discrimination and primary appraisals, the results revealed that acculturation helped…
Examining commitment and relational maintenance in formal youth mentoring relationships
This study utilizes a social exchange perspective to examine mentors' reported commitment and relational maintenance in formal youth mentoring relationships. One hundred and forty-five adult mentors from four mentoring programs completed surveys about aspects of their current youth mentoring relationship. Study measures assessed Investment Model variables (satisfaction, alternatives, investments, and commitment), stay/leave behavior, and reported…
Cultural Variations in the Reasons People Provide Avoidance Support
This study explores variations in the reasons people engage in avoidance as a support strategy across the two cultures of the United States and China. An avoidance-support belief scale was developed. Exploratory factor analysis of responses from 231 Americans and 219 Chinese identified three dimensions of the scale: (1) protecting the support seeker from harm by avoiding, (2) maintaining a positive mood by avoiding, and (3) spiritual/philosophica…
The Reach of Child Abuse Potential
This paper examines the reach of child abuse potential by exploring its association with multiple features of parenting (i.e., connection, regulation, and stimulation). Twenty-four mothers with infants or toddlers from low-income families who were beginning participation in an intergenerational learning program completed the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI; Milner, 1986 Milner, J. S. 1986. The Child Abuse Potential Inventory manual, 2nd, De…
Comparing Physically Abused, Neglected, and Nonmaltreated Children During Interactions with their Parents
A meta-analysis of 30 observational studies compares abused, neglected, and nonmaltreated children's behavior during interactions with their parents. Drawing on the relational communication literature, children's behaviors from various coding schemes were grouped into those communicating positivity (e.g., affection, approval), aversiveness (e.g., anger, resistance), and involvement (e.g., attention, interest). Results reveal that abused and negle…
New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research
Foreword: Commentary on New Directions in Interpersonal Communication - Michael E. Roloff 1. Evolving Trends in Interpersonal Communication Research - Sandi W. Smith and Steven R. Wilson PART I. METATHEORETICAL APPROACHES TO INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 2. Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Relationships - Ascan F. Koerner and Kory Floyd 3. Relational Dialectics Theory, Applied - Leslie A. Baxter and Dawn O. Braithwaite PART II. B…
Identity Implications of Influence Goals A Revised Analysis of Face-Threatening Acts and Application to Seeking Compliance With Same-Sex Friends
Journal Article Identity Implications of Influence Goals: A Revised Analysis of Face-Threatening Acts and Application to Seeking Compliance with Same-Sex Friends Get access Steven R. Wilson, Steven R. Wilson 1Steven R. Wilson (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1989) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University 4Steven R. Wilson, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, 1881 Sheridan …
Item Desirability Effects in Compliance-Gaining Research Seven Studies Documenting Artifacts in the Strategy Selection Procedure
A popular method for assessing compliance-gaming behavior involves having people rate lists of preformulated message strategies for likelihood of use. This "selection procedure" has been employed much more frequently than the alternative "construction procedure," a method that requires people to generate their own message strategies. The present article argues that the selection procedure is much less sensitive than the construction procedure to …
A cross‐cultural comparison of implicit theories of requesting
The primary aim of this paper is to identify cross‐cultural similarities and differences in people's implicit theories of requesting. Implicit theories are conceptualized as containing information about five interactive constraints that influence choices about requests: (1) Clarity, (2) Perceived imposition, (3) Consideration for the other's feelings, (4) Risking disapproval for self, and (5) Effectiveness. The paper compares how these five const…
Development and test of a cognitive rules model of interaction goals
Although scholars frequently describe communication as goal oriented, they offer limited detail about how people form interaction goals in situations. This paper presents a “Cognitive Rules” model which specifies assumptions about the structures and processes underlying goal formation. According to the model, people represent their knowledge about goals within an associative network model of memory, which contains cognitive rules linking situatio…
New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research
Foreword: Commentary on New Directions in Interpersonal Communication - Michael E. Roloff 1. Evolving Trends in Interpersonal Communication Research - Sandi W. Smith and Steven R. Wilson PART I. METATHEORETICAL APPROACHES TO INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 2. Evolutionary Perspectives on Interpersonal Relationships - Ascan F. Koerner and Kory Floyd 3. Relational Dialectics Theory, Applied - Leslie A. Baxter and Dawn O. Braithwaite PART II. B…
Politeness Judgments in Personal Relationships
Brown and Levinson's politeness theory specifies five strategies for achieving politeness. Although the strategies are presented as ordered and mutually exclusive, there is reason to believe that they are neither The authors offer an alternative means of classifying requests that is grounded in the phenomenology of the social actor and depends on three message features: explicitness, dominance, and argument. Separate samples of judges viewed vide…
Evaluating Brown and Levinson's politeness theory
(1991). Evaluating Brown and Levinson's politeness theory: A revised analysis of directives and face. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 25, No. 1-4, pp. 215-252
Examining commitment and relational maintenance in formal youth mentoring relationships
This study utilizes a social exchange perspective to examine mentors' reported commitment and relational maintenance in formal youth mentoring relationships. One hundred and forty-five adult mentors from four mentoring programs completed surveys about aspects of their current youth mentoring relationship. Study measures assessed Investment Model variables (satisfaction, alternatives, investments, and commitment), stay/leave behavior, and reported…
Identity Implications of Influence Goals
This study tests the generalizability of Wilson, Aleman, & Leatham's revised analysis of face threats and facework during compliance-gaining episodes. According to this revised analysis, threats to face arise from tacit knowledge about (a) specific influence goals (e.g., giving advice, asking favors) and (b) the rules for directives (e.g., requests) that underlie any attempt to seek compliance. Both types of knowledge are shared widely; hence, th…
Do Family Communication Patterns Buffer Children from Difficulties Associated with a Parent's Military Deployment? Examining Deployed and At-home Parents’ Perspectives
Based on models of family resiliency, this study explored whether deployed and at-home parents’ reports of family communication patterns were associated with reported child difficulties and prosocial behavior during a military parent's deployment. Participants were National Guard families attending yellow-ribbon reintegration events. Parents completed the Revised Family Communication Patterns short-form measure as well as the Strengths and Diffic…
Culture in the context of intercultural negotiation
This study explores culture's effect on behaviors and outcomes in intercultural negotiation and examines how those effects are moderated by role. Eighty U.S. and international students took part in a previously developed negotiation task (Pruitt, 1981) and completed Hui and Triandis's (1986) individualism-collectivism (INDCOL) scale. Negotiation interactions were coded for information sharing, offers, and distributive tactics. Findings show that …
The Relationship Between Self-Construals, Perceived Face Threats, and Facework During the Pursuit of Influence Goals
The purpose of our study was to understand how self-construals affect the intensity of perceived face threats and the subsequent deployment of coping strategies within compliance-seeking situations involving three different influence goals (giving advice, asking favors, or enforcing unfulfilled obligations). Five-hundred and seventy-six students from four different ethnic backgrounds (African American, Asian American, Latino, and European America…
Identifying Communities in Need
Utilizing a cognitive appraisal approach, this study examines how acculturation affects racial minority members' appraisals of and responses to racial discrimination. Racial minority members (N = 345) completed questionnaires about their prior experiences with racial discrimination and coping responses. Controlling for participants' prior experiences with racial discrimination and primary appraisals, the results revealed that acculturation helped…
Mothers' child abuse potential as a predictor of maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions
This paper explores the effect of mothers' child abuse potential on maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions. Forty‐two mothers participated in a 10‐min play period followed by a clean‐up task along with one of their children (range=3–8 years old), after which they completed Milner's () Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory. Mothers' behaviors were coded using a 21‐category scheme, which was collapsed into five behavioral cluste…
Identity Implications of Relationship (Re)Definition Goals
Identity implications theory (IIT) is applied to analyze how young adults manage identity concerns associated with the goals of initiating, intensifying, and disengaging from romantic relationships. Participants wrote their responses to one of six hypothetical romantic (re)definition scenarios, indicated whether they actually would pursue the relational goal if their scenario were real, and rated degree of threat to both parties' face. Responses …
Explicating dimensions of family marginalization and types of marginalized family members
Marginalized family members feel different from and are often disapproved of or excluded by multiple family members. These feelings arise from interactions that create relational distance. Although being marginalized from one's family typically is a chronically stressful process, the ways in which marginalization is accomplished likely varies across individuals, families, and/or time. Guided by social identification and confirmation theories, we …
Mothers Trait Verbal Aggressiveness as a Predictor of Maternal and Child Behavior During Playtime Interactions
This article explores associations between mothers’ trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) and maternal and child behavior during playtime interactions. Forty mothers completed a 10-minute play period with one of their children (range = 3–8 years) and then responded to D. A. Infante and C. J. Wigley’s (1986) trait VA scale. Mothers’ trait VA was associated positively (r = .48) with their rate of directing and inversely (r =−.44) with their child’s rate…
Mothers' Trait Verbal Aggressiveness and Child Abuse Potential
Child physical abuse is a serious societal problem that communication scholars have been slow to address. This study explores whether a mother's trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) is associated with her risk for child physical abuse. Participants were 42 women in predominately low-income families recruited from two social service agencies in a major metropolitan area. Participants completed Infante and Wigley's (1986) Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (V…
An attributional analysis of compliance‐gaining interactions
We investigated the applicability of Weiner's (1986) attribution theory to compliance‐gaining interactions. Participants telephoned trained confederates and attempted to persuade those confederates to honor a previous commitment to participate in a research project. Participants’ persistence and strategy use were expected to vary depending on the locus, stability, and controllability of the excuses for not complying offered by the targets (confed…
Privacy Management in the Military Family during Deployment
This study examines military adolescents’ experiences of managing private information within their families during a parental deployment. Thirty-eight adolescents were interviewed about how they and their families managed private information across the deployment cycle. Our interviewees suggested that when a deployment occurs: (a) family members should limit the information that they share with the deployed parent about events at home, (b) childr…
Comparing Physically Abused, Neglected, and Nonmaltreated Children During Interactions with their Parents
A meta-analysis of 30 observational studies compares abused, neglected, and nonmaltreated children's behavior during interactions with their parents. Drawing on the relational communication literature, children's behaviors from various coding schemes were grouped into those communicating positivity (e.g., affection, approval), aversiveness (e.g., anger, resistance), and involvement (e.g., attention, interest). Results reveal that abused and negle…
On the Continued Undesirability of Item Desirability A Reply to Boster, Hunter, and Seibold
Journal Article On the Continued Undesirability of Item Desirability: A Reply to Boster, Hunter, and Seibold Get access Brant R. Burleson, Brant R. Burleson 1Brant R. Burleson (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, 1982) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven R. Wilson Steven R. Wilso…
First and Second-Order Changes in a Community's Response to a Child Abuse Fatality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven R. WilsonSteven R. Wilson (PhD, Purdue University) is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Communication at Purdue University
Child Physical Abuse
(1999). Child Physical Abuse: The Relevance of Language and Social Interaction Research. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 32, No. 1-2, pp. 173-184
Is it always a matter of perspective? Construct differentiation and variability in attributions about compliance gaining
This study investigates whether attributions made while observing compliance‐gaining interactions always are a matter of perspective. We propose that Construct Differentiation moderates the effects of perspective on causal judgments, such that highly differentiated individuals are more responsive than less differentiated persons to information from interaction that their psychological perspective makes salient. Participants viewed three videotape…
On the Continued Undesirability of Item Desirability A Reply to Boster, Hunter, and Seibold
Journal Article On the Continued Undesirability of Item Desirability: A Reply to Boster, Hunter, and Seibold Get access Brant R. Burleson, Brant R. Burleson 1Brant R. Burleson (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, 1982) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven R. Wilson Steven R. Wilso…
Item Desirability Effects in Compliance-Gaining Research Seven Studies Documenting Artifacts in the Strategy Selection Procedure
A popular method for assessing compliance-gaming behavior involves having people rate lists of preformulated message strategies for likelihood of use. This "selection procedure" has been employed much more frequently than the alternative "construction procedure," a method that requires people to generate their own message strategies. The present article argues that the selection procedure is much less sensitive than the construction procedure to …
Interaction Goals in Negotiation
Negotiation is a strategic process, carried out through maneuvers designed to accomplish goals. Most negotiation theorists, however, treat goals as global, predetermined, and static task-oriented objectives. This chapter focuses on the role of interaction goals in negotiation. Bargainers’ interaction goals are organized within a scheme that varies in two respects: type (instrumental, relational, and identity) and level of abstraction (globat, reg…
Development and test of a cognitive rules model of interaction goals
Although scholars frequently describe communication as goal oriented, they offer limited detail about how people form interaction goals in situations. This paper presents a “Cognitive Rules” model which specifies assumptions about the structures and processes underlying goal formation. According to the model, people represent their knowledge about goals within an associative network model of memory, which contains cognitive rules linking situatio…
Evaluating Brown and Levinson's politeness theory
(1991). Evaluating Brown and Levinson's politeness theory: A revised analysis of directives and face. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 25, No. 1-4, pp. 215-252
Is it always a matter of perspective? Construct differentiation and variability in attributions about compliance gaining
This study investigates whether attributions made while observing compliance‐gaining interactions always are a matter of perspective. We propose that Construct Differentiation moderates the effects of perspective on causal judgments, such that highly differentiated individuals are more responsive than less differentiated persons to information from interaction that their psychological perspective makes salient. Participants viewed three videotape…
An attributional analysis of compliance‐gaining interactions
We investigated the applicability of Weiner's (1986) attribution theory to compliance‐gaining interactions. Participants telephoned trained confederates and attempted to persuade those confederates to honor a previous commitment to participate in a research project. Participants’ persistence and strategy use were expected to vary depending on the locus, stability, and controllability of the excuses for not complying offered by the targets (confed…
A cross‐cultural comparison of implicit theories of requesting
The primary aim of this paper is to identify cross‐cultural similarities and differences in people's implicit theories of requesting. Implicit theories are conceptualized as containing information about five interactive constraints that influence choices about requests: (1) Clarity, (2) Perceived imposition, (3) Consideration for the other's feelings, (4) Risking disapproval for self, and (5) Effectiveness. The paper compares how these five const…
Elaborating the Cognitive Rules Model of Interaction Goals
Current theories of message production typically assume that speakers design messages to accomplish goals, but provide limited detail about how speakers form goals. The cognitive rules (CR) model presents one explicit set of assumptions about how interaction goals are formed. To date, predictions from the model have fared well for individuals high in interpersonal construct differentiation, but have received little support for less differentiated…
Reflection-Enhancing Regulative Communication
This study examines parental regulative communication across misbehavior situations and child resistance. Regulative messages are analyzed using Applegate et al.'s (1985) hierarchical scheme for coding `reflection-enhancement', or the degree to which parents encourage their child to reflect on psychological consequences of misbehavior. We explore several questions about regulative communication that have been de-emphasized in previous research, i…
Regulative Communication Strategies Within Mother-Child Interactions
(1997). Regulative Communication Strategies Within Mother-Child Interactions: Implications for the Study of Reflection-Enhancing Parental Communication. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 73-92
Politeness Judgments in Personal Relationships
Brown and Levinson's politeness theory specifies five strategies for achieving politeness. Although the strategies are presented as ordered and mutually exclusive, there is reason to believe that they are neither The authors offer an alternative means of classifying requests that is grounded in the phenomenology of the social actor and depends on three message features: explicitness, dominance, and argument. Separate samples of judges viewed vide…
Identity Implications of Influence Goals A Revised Analysis of Face-Threatening Acts and Application to Seeking Compliance With Same-Sex Friends
Journal Article Identity Implications of Influence Goals: A Revised Analysis of Face-Threatening Acts and Application to Seeking Compliance with Same-Sex Friends Get access Steven R. Wilson, Steven R. Wilson 1Steven R. Wilson (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1989) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University 4Steven R. Wilson, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, 1881 Sheridan …
Child Physical Abuse
(1999). Child Physical Abuse: The Relevance of Language and Social Interaction Research. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 32, No. 1-2, pp. 173-184
Developing Planning Perspectives to Explain Parent-Child Interaction Patterns in Physically Abusive Families
Although a growing body of research documents important links between parent-child interaction and child physical abuse, these studies are being conducted primarily by scholars from outside the field of communication. This commentary explores how theories of plans and planning might help explain patterns of parent-child interaction that typify physically abusive families. I consider 4 potential links between plans-planning processes and child phy…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Message Production
Journal Article Introduction to the Special Issue on Message Production: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects Get access Steven R. Wilson, Steven R. Wilson 1John O. Greene (PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison) is a professor in the Department of Communication, Purdue University. He has published extensively in the areas of message production and cognition; his most recent volume is Message production: Advances in communication theory, published …
Identity Implications of Influence Goals
This study tests the generalizability of Wilson, Aleman, & Leatham's revised analysis of face threats and facework during compliance-gaining episodes. According to this revised analysis, threats to face arise from tacit knowledge about (a) specific influence goals (e.g., giving advice, asking favors) and (b) the rules for directives (e.g., requests) that underlie any attempt to seek compliance. Both types of knowledge are shared widely; hence, th…
Culture in the context of intercultural negotiation
This study explores culture's effect on behaviors and outcomes in intercultural negotiation and examines how those effects are moderated by role. Eighty U.S. and international students took part in a previously developed negotiation task (Pruitt, 1981) and completed Hui and Triandis's (1986) individualism-collectivism (INDCOL) scale. Negotiation interactions were coded for information sharing, offers, and distributive tactics. Findings show that …
Mothers' child abuse potential as a predictor of maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions
This paper explores the effect of mothers' child abuse potential on maternal and child behaviors during play‐time interactions. Forty‐two mothers participated in a 10‐min play period followed by a clean‐up task along with one of their children (range=3–8 years old), after which they completed Milner's () Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory. Mothers' behaviors were coded using a 21‐category scheme, which was collapsed into five behavioral cluste…
Beyond Small Change
Beyond Small Change examines the phenomenon of migrant remittances in hopes of contributing to international understanding of remittances, promoting better policies and practices in this area, and turning migrant workers' hard-won resources into a source of development for their homelands. This book draws on survey evidence, detailed analysis of case studies, and comparisons across countries and regions, and paints a picture of remittance flows t…
Nonphysical Child Abuse
To understand nonphysical child abuse better, the authors argue, scholars must provide thorough conceptualization and theoretically grounded operationalization. To illustrate this argument, the authors explicate the terms (a) verbal aggression, (b) psychological aggression, and (c) psychological maltreatment (stemming from communication, sociology, and psychology respectively) and review, for each term, the theoretical conceptualization, operatio…
Mothers' Trait Verbal Aggressiveness and Child Abuse Potential
Child physical abuse is a serious societal problem that communication scholars have been slow to address. This study explores whether a mother's trait verbal aggressiveness (VA) is associated with her risk for child physical abuse. Participants were 42 women in predominately low-income families recruited from two social service agencies in a major metropolitan area. Participants completed Infante and Wigley's (1986) Verbal Aggressiveness Scale (V…
First and Second-Order Changes in a Community's Response to a Child Abuse Fatality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven R. WilsonSteven R. Wilson (PhD, Purdue University) is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Communication at Purdue University
The effect of collective bargaining on large police agency supplemental compensation policies
The effect of collective bargaining on the economic benefits of police employees has been the interest of researchers since the 1960s. This study examines the effect of collective bargaining on supplemental pay benefits for police officers. Using data from the Law Enforcement Management Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey of large police agencies as well as data derived from the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and US Census Bureau, we investigat…
Determining the correlates of police victimization
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