Robert P Hawkins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 170598 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert P Hawkins |
| PRENOMES | Robert P |
| SOBRENOME | Hawkins |
| ASSINATURA | HAWKINS R P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Shall Usage in Legal Texts Is Motivated by Genre, Not Writing Process
shall is among the least common modal auxiliaries in most varieties of present-day U.S. English but is by far the most common modal in sources of law like statutes and constitutions (Brooks 2023). In this paper, we offer empirical evidence that the prominence of shall in law is motivated by genre-specific convention rather than communicative content or writing process. In a production experiment building on the findings of Martínez et al. (2024),…
Social support and responsiveness in online patient communities
BACKGROUND: Hospitals frequently evaluate their service quality based on the care and services provided to patients by their clinical and non-clinical staff.(1,2) However, such evaluations do not take into consideration the many interactions that patients have in online patient communities with the health-care organization (HCO) as well as with peer patients. Patients' interactions in these online communities could impact their perceptions regard…
Factors Associated with Use of Interactive Cancer Communication System
In order to provide insights about cancer patients' online information seeking behaviors, the present study analyzes individuals' transaction log data and reports on how demographics, disease-related factors, and psychosocial needs predict patterns of service use within a particular Interactive Cancer Communication System (ICCS). Study sample included 294 recently diagnosed breast cancer patients. Data included pretest survey scores of demographi…
Psychometric Evaluation of the Health Information Orientation Scale
The Health Information Orientation Scale (HIOS) was developed from a need to briefly assess information orientation in a health context and underlying reasons for information seeking or avoidance. Using data from a larger longitudinal study of informal cancer caregivers, this study examines psychometric properties of the HIOS, including confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability and construct validity through associations with information co…
Health Information, Credibility, Homophily, and Influence via the Internet
Despite concerns about online health information and efforts to improve its credibility, how users evaluate and utilize such information presented in Web sites and online discussion groups may involve different evaluative mechanisms. This study examined credibility and homophily as two underlying mechanisms for social influence with regard to online health information. An original experiment detected that homophily grounded credibility perception…
Understanding tailoring in communicating about health
'Tailoring' refers to any of a number of methods for creating communications individualized for their receivers, with the expectation that this individualization will lead to larger intended effects of these communications. Results so far have been generally positive but not consistently so, and this paper seeks to explicate tailoring to help focus future research. Tailoring involves either or both of two classes of goals (enhancing cognitive pre…
Internet-Based Interactive Support for Cancer Patients
To compare the benefits of the Internet generally versus a focused system of services, 257 breast cancer patients were randomly assigned to a control group, access to the Internet with links to high-quality breast cancer sites, or access to an eHealth system (Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System, CHESS) that integrated information, support, and decision and analysis tools. The intervention lasted 5 months, and self-report data on quali…
Expressing Positive Emotions within Online Support Groups by Women with Breast Cancer
Based upon Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions, this study examined the role of expressing positive emotions in online support groups for women with breast cancer. Underserved women with breast cancer in rural Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan were recruited from 2001 to 2003, and they were given access to online support groups. Both pretest and four-month posttest surveys were conducted with a sample of 231 women. Messages …
Communicating about Self and Others within an Online Support Group for Women with Breast Cancer and Subsequent Outcomes
Research suggests communicating too much about one's self within an online support group may amplify breast cancer patients' focus on their own problems and exacerbate negative emotions while focusing on others may have the opposite effects. This study explored how pronoun usage within an online support group was associated with subsequent mental health outcomes. There were 286 patients recruited into the study who filled out the pre-test and 231…
On the validity of client‐side vs server‐side web log data analysis
Purpose This paper seeks to discuss measurement units by comparing the internet use and the traditional media use, and to understand internet use from the traditional media use perspective. Design/methodology/approach Benefits and shortcomings of two log file types will be carefully and exhaustively examined. Client‐side and server‐side log files will be analyzed and compared with proposed units of analysis. Findings Server‐side session time calc…
How Underserved Breast Cancer Patients Use and Benefit From eHealth Programs
This article consolidates insights from 15 years of research examining howthe medically underserved use and benefit from an eHealth program, the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS). The authors outline results from early feasibility tests to determine if the underserved would use CHESS. Distinctive behaviors of underserved populations who have used CHESS are reported with a focus on how online health information and computer-m…
What Produces Television Attention and Attention Style
Individual looks at television vary enormously in length, and this has previously indicated differences in ongoing cognitive processes. Furthermore, the relative frequency of looks of different lengths may indicate styles of attention to television. This article compares visual attention of 152 subjects across a variety of genres and examines differences located by situation, person, and media perception variables. Attention style was not consist…
What Produces Television Attention and Attention Style
Individual looks at television vary enormously in length, and this has previously indicated differences in ongoing cognitive processes. Furthermore, the relative frequency of looks of different lengths may indicate stylesof attention to television. This article compares visual attention of 152 subjects across a variety of genres and examines differences located by situation, person, and media perception variables. Attention style was not consiste…
Cultural Differences in Use of an Electronic Discussion Group
This article describes how 121 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer used a computer mediated discussion group to cope with their diagnosis. These data are part of a larger data set from a randomized clinical trial assessing the impact of a computer-based system called CHESS (the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System) on health outcomes. The larger study found significant improvement in health outcomes for those in the experimental g…
The Effect of Family Communication Patterns on Young People's Science Literacy
Given the rapid pace and complexity of science today, science literacy cannot mean understanding all of science. Rather, science literacy more appropriately means the critical evaluation of sources of information and basic standards of scientific performance as a guide to accepting and applying scientific knowledge to one's own life. The development of science literacy in children is probably shaped by other norms and experiences. This study exam…
Expanded School Mental Health Services
Television Structures and Adolescent Viewing Patterns
The television systems of Sweden and the United States are different in very interesting ways, stemming from a combination of historical, economic, technical and cultural factors. This study investigated viewer behaviour in these two different systems, using variables constructed from television viewing diaries and questionnaire responses. Results showed five clusters of viewer behaviours for each country, with a general similarity in clusters be…
Motivational and Structural Factors in Predicting Different Kinds of Cancer Knowledge
Implications of Concurrent Measures of Viewer Behavior
Carter's “signaled stopping” technique is used here under different instructions to examine two quite different cognitive phenomena during television viewing of marital interactions from feature films: a change to the cognitive state of “thinking” (rather than just watching), and the momentary perception of action “meaningful for the couple's relationship.” A variety of evidence supports the distinction and suggests directions for further applica…
Fragmentation in the Field?and the Movement Toward Integration in Communication Science
Two aspects of disciplinary identity are addressed in this essay: (1) Who are we, members of one discipline or a loose confederation of scholars who each have some claim to the word communication; and (2) are we (whoever we are) becoming respectable members of the academic community? The first of these issues is examined in terms of the institutional history of communication. The various forces that contributed to a fragmentation of the disciplin…
Reaching Hard-to-Reach Populations
Robert P. Hawkins, David H. Gustafson, Betty Chewning, Kris Bosworth, Patricia M. Day; Reaching Hard-to-Reach Populations: Interactive Computer Programs as
Searching for Cognitive Processes in the Cultivation Effect Adult and Adolescent Samples in the United States and Australia
Research on the cultivation hypothesis has focused on whether relationships between television viewing and social reality beliefs truly exist or are artifacts. There is very little evidence about what cognitive processes allow viewers to construct television-biased beliefs. The present study tests two possible processes: First, that perceptions of the television world serve as an intermediate step between fragmented incidental learning from telev…
Media Roles in a Social Movement
Glenn G. Strodthoff, Robert P. Hawkins, A. Clay Schoenfeld; Media Roles in a Social Movement: a Model of Ideology Diffusion, Journal of Communication, Volu
On Woolfolk and Richardson
On Woolfolk and Richardson
Uniform Messages and Habitual Viewing
Gerbner and his co-authors argue that commercial television content is essentially uniform in its symbolic messages about societal values and that television viewing is essentially habitual (ritual) rather than selective. Their claim that these two assumptions are essential to cultivation analysis is challenged here. Viewing crime-adventure, cartoon, and game programs is related to two violence-related social reality beliefs, while viewing of oth…
Searching for Cognitive Processes in the Cultivation Effect Adult and Adolescent Samples in the United States and Australia
Research on the cultivation hypothesis has focused on whether relationships between television viewing and social reality beliefs truly exist or are artifacts. There is very little evidence about what cognitive processes allow viewers to construct television-biased beliefs. The present study tests two possible processes: First, that perceptions of the television world serve as an intermediate step between fragmented incidental learning from telev…
Expressing Positive Emotions within Online Support Groups by Women with Breast Cancer
Based upon Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions, this study examined the role of expressing positive emotions in online support groups for women with breast cancer. Underserved women with breast cancer in rural Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan were recruited from 2001 to 2003, and they were given access to online support groups. Both pretest and four-month posttest surveys were conducted with a sample of 231 women. Messages …
Fragmentation in the Field?and the Movement Toward Integration in Communication Science
Two aspects of disciplinary identity are addressed in this essay: (1) Who are we, members of one discipline or a loose confederation of scholars who each have some claim to the word communication; and (2) are we (whoever we are) becoming respectable members of the academic community? The first of these issues is examined in terms of the institutional history of communication. The various forces that contributed to a fragmentation of the disciplin…
Implications of Concurrent Measures of Viewer Behavior
Carter's “signaled stopping” technique is used here under different instructions to examine two quite different cognitive phenomena during television viewing of marital interactions from feature films: a change to the cognitive state of “thinking” (rather than just watching), and the momentary perception of action “meaningful for the couple's relationship.” A variety of evidence supports the distinction and suggests directions for further applica…
How Underserved Breast Cancer Patients Use and Benefit From eHealth Programs
This article consolidates insights from 15 years of research examining howthe medically underserved use and benefit from an eHealth program, the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS). The authors outline results from early feasibility tests to determine if the underserved would use CHESS. Distinctive behaviors of underserved populations who have used CHESS are reported with a focus on how online health information and computer-m…
Cultural Differences in Use of an Electronic Discussion Group
This article describes how 121 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer used a computer mediated discussion group to cope with their diagnosis. These data are part of a larger data set from a randomized clinical trial assessing the impact of a computer-based system called CHESS (the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System) on health outcomes. The larger study found significant improvement in health outcomes for those in the experimental g…
Factors Associated with Use of Interactive Cancer Communication System
In order to provide insights about cancer patients' online information seeking behaviors, the present study analyzes individuals' transaction log data and reports on how demographics, disease-related factors, and psychosocial needs predict patterns of service use within a particular Interactive Cancer Communication System (ICCS). Study sample included 294 recently diagnosed breast cancer patients. Data included pretest survey scores of demographi…
Communicating about Self and Others within an Online Support Group for Women with Breast Cancer and Subsequent Outcomes
Research suggests communicating too much about one's self within an online support group may amplify breast cancer patients' focus on their own problems and exacerbate negative emotions while focusing on others may have the opposite effects. This study explored how pronoun usage within an online support group was associated with subsequent mental health outcomes. There were 286 patients recruited into the study who filled out the pre-test and 231…
Television Structures and Adolescent Viewing Patterns
The television systems of Sweden and the United States are different in very interesting ways, stemming from a combination of historical, economic, technical and cultural factors. This study investigated viewer behaviour in these two different systems, using variables constructed from television viewing diaries and questionnaire responses. Results showed five clusters of viewer behaviours for each country, with a general similarity in clusters be…
Expanded School Mental Health Services
Psychometric Evaluation of the Health Information Orientation Scale
The Health Information Orientation Scale (HIOS) was developed from a need to briefly assess information orientation in a health context and underlying reasons for information seeking or avoidance. Using data from a larger longitudinal study of informal cancer caregivers, this study examines psychometric properties of the HIOS, including confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability and construct validity through associations with information co…
The Effect of Family Communication Patterns on Young People's Science Literacy
Given the rapid pace and complexity of science today, science literacy cannot mean understanding all of science. Rather, science literacy more appropriately means the critical evaluation of sources of information and basic standards of scientific performance as a guide to accepting and applying scientific knowledge to one's own life. The development of science literacy in children is probably shaped by other norms and experiences. This study exam…
Motivational and Structural Factors in Predicting Different Kinds of Cancer Knowledge
U. S. Programs on Australian Television
Suzanne Pingree, Robert Hawkins; U. S. Programs on Australian Television: The Cultivation Effect, Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Issue 1, 1 March 198
Barny a Computer Based Health Information System for Adolescents
Uniform Messages and Habitual Viewing
Gerbner and his co-authors argue that commercial television content is essentially uniform in its symbolic messages about societal values and that television viewing is essentially habitual (ritual) rather than selective. Their claim that these two assumptions are essential to cultivation analysis is challenged here. Viewing crime-adventure, cartoon, and game programs is related to two violence-related social reality beliefs, while viewing of oth…
Media Roles in a Social Movement
Glenn G. Strodthoff, Robert P. Hawkins, A. Clay Schoenfeld; Media Roles in a Social Movement: a Model of Ideology Diffusion, Journal of Communication, Volu
On Woolfolk and Richardson
On Woolfolk and Richardson
Reaching Hard-to-Reach Populations
Robert P. Hawkins, David H. Gustafson, Betty Chewning, Kris Bosworth, Patricia M. Day; Reaching Hard-to-Reach Populations: Interactive Computer Programs as
Searching for Cognitive Processes in the Cultivation Effect Adult and Adolescent Samples in the United States and Australia
Research on the cultivation hypothesis has focused on whether relationships between television viewing and social reality beliefs truly exist or are artifacts. There is very little evidence about what cognitive processes allow viewers to construct television-biased beliefs. The present study tests two possible processes: First, that perceptions of the television world serve as an intermediate step between fragmented incidental learning from telev…
Fragmentation in the Field?and the Movement Toward Integration in Communication Science
Two aspects of disciplinary identity are addressed in this essay: (1) Who are we, members of one discipline or a loose confederation of scholars who each have some claim to the word communication; and (2) are we (whoever we are) becoming respectable members of the academic community? The first of these issues is examined in terms of the institutional history of communication. The various forces that contributed to a fragmentation of the disciplin…
Television Structures and Adolescent Viewing Patterns
The television systems of Sweden and the United States are different in very interesting ways, stemming from a combination of historical, economic, technical and cultural factors. This study investigated viewer behaviour in these two different systems, using variables constructed from television viewing diaries and questionnaire responses. Results showed five clusters of viewer behaviours for each country, with a general similarity in clusters be…
Motivational and Structural Factors in Predicting Different Kinds of Cancer Knowledge
Implications of Concurrent Measures of Viewer Behavior
Carter's “signaled stopping” technique is used here under different instructions to examine two quite different cognitive phenomena during television viewing of marital interactions from feature films: a change to the cognitive state of “thinking” (rather than just watching), and the momentary perception of action “meaningful for the couple's relationship.” A variety of evidence supports the distinction and suggests directions for further applica…
The Effect of Family Communication Patterns on Young People's Science Literacy
Given the rapid pace and complexity of science today, science literacy cannot mean understanding all of science. Rather, science literacy more appropriately means the critical evaluation of sources of information and basic standards of scientific performance as a guide to accepting and applying scientific knowledge to one's own life. The development of science literacy in children is probably shaped by other norms and experiences. This study exam…
Expanded School Mental Health Services
Cultural Differences in Use of an Electronic Discussion Group
This article describes how 121 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer used a computer mediated discussion group to cope with their diagnosis. These data are part of a larger data set from a randomized clinical trial assessing the impact of a computer-based system called CHESS (the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System) on health outcomes. The larger study found significant improvement in health outcomes for those in the experimental g…
What Produces Television Attention and Attention Style
Individual looks at television vary enormously in length, and this has previously indicated differences in ongoing cognitive processes. Furthermore, the relative frequency of looks of different lengths may indicate styles of attention to television. This article compares visual attention of 152 subjects across a variety of genres and examines differences located by situation, person, and media perception variables. Attention style was not consist…
What Produces Television Attention and Attention Style
Individual looks at television vary enormously in length, and this has previously indicated differences in ongoing cognitive processes. Furthermore, the relative frequency of looks of different lengths may indicate stylesof attention to television. This article compares visual attention of 152 subjects across a variety of genres and examines differences located by situation, person, and media perception variables. Attention style was not consiste…
On the validity of client‐side vs server‐side web log data analysis
Purpose This paper seeks to discuss measurement units by comparing the internet use and the traditional media use, and to understand internet use from the traditional media use perspective. Design/methodology/approach Benefits and shortcomings of two log file types will be carefully and exhaustively examined. Client‐side and server‐side log files will be analyzed and compared with proposed units of analysis. Findings Server‐side session time calc…
How Underserved Breast Cancer Patients Use and Benefit From eHealth Programs
This article consolidates insights from 15 years of research examining howthe medically underserved use and benefit from an eHealth program, the Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS). The authors outline results from early feasibility tests to determine if the underserved would use CHESS. Distinctive behaviors of underserved populations who have used CHESS are reported with a focus on how online health information and computer-m…
Health Information, Credibility, Homophily, and Influence via the Internet
Despite concerns about online health information and efforts to improve its credibility, how users evaluate and utilize such information presented in Web sites and online discussion groups may involve different evaluative mechanisms. This study examined credibility and homophily as two underlying mechanisms for social influence with regard to online health information. An original experiment detected that homophily grounded credibility perception…
Understanding tailoring in communicating about health
'Tailoring' refers to any of a number of methods for creating communications individualized for their receivers, with the expectation that this individualization will lead to larger intended effects of these communications. Results so far have been generally positive but not consistently so, and this paper seeks to explicate tailoring to help focus future research. Tailoring involves either or both of two classes of goals (enhancing cognitive pre…
Internet-Based Interactive Support for Cancer Patients
To compare the benefits of the Internet generally versus a focused system of services, 257 breast cancer patients were randomly assigned to a control group, access to the Internet with links to high-quality breast cancer sites, or access to an eHealth system (Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System, CHESS) that integrated information, support, and decision and analysis tools. The intervention lasted 5 months, and self-report data on quali…
Expressing Positive Emotions within Online Support Groups by Women with Breast Cancer
Based upon Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions, this study examined the role of expressing positive emotions in online support groups for women with breast cancer. Underserved women with breast cancer in rural Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan were recruited from 2001 to 2003, and they were given access to online support groups. Both pretest and four-month posttest surveys were conducted with a sample of 231 women. Messages …
Communicating about Self and Others within an Online Support Group for Women with Breast Cancer and Subsequent Outcomes
Research suggests communicating too much about one's self within an online support group may amplify breast cancer patients' focus on their own problems and exacerbate negative emotions while focusing on others may have the opposite effects. This study explored how pronoun usage within an online support group was associated with subsequent mental health outcomes. There were 286 patients recruited into the study who filled out the pre-test and 231…
Psychometric Evaluation of the Health Information Orientation Scale
The Health Information Orientation Scale (HIOS) was developed from a need to briefly assess information orientation in a health context and underlying reasons for information seeking or avoidance. Using data from a larger longitudinal study of informal cancer caregivers, this study examines psychometric properties of the HIOS, including confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability and construct validity through associations with information co…
Psychology (22 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (8 obras) · Media Influence and Health (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Breast cancer (6 obras)