Robert A Bell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3770503 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert A Bell |
| PRENOMES | Robert A |
| SOBRENOME | Bell |
| ASSINATURA | BELL R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5062-5082 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 145 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Persuasive Narratives About Osteoporosis
Narratives have been widely acknowledged as a powerful persuasion tool in health promotion and education. Recently, great efforts have been devoted to identifying message components and causal pathways that maximize a narrative’s persuasion power. Specifically, we investigated how narrator point of view and readers’ subjective relative risk moderate the effects of protagonist competence on intentions to adopt osteoporosis-prevention behaviors, an…
Contradictory and complex health messages
Contradictory and complex health messages are prevalent in the media and can lead to uncertainty in decision-making. We explore if the theoretical distinction between message contradiction and complexity is manifested in laypersons’ perceptions. U.S. adults (N = 584) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: contradictory messages, complex messages, or no-message control. Participants in the message conditions read contradictory or compl…
Predictors of intention to vaccinate against Covid-19
From Network Positions to Language Use
We investigated cancer survivors' interactions on an online breast cancer support forum, focusing on how the network structures of brokerage and closure relate to the types of support received and to the language used in posts. Data came through the extraction of 1,443 forum members' online networks. Automated linguistic analysis was carried out on the 27,248 threads these survivors made and the 336,151 replies they received. Survivors' brokerage…
A meta-analysis of the impact of point of view on narrative processing and persuasion in health messaging
Giving Radon Gas Life Through Language
Health messages that linguistically assign agency to a threat (e.g., HIV infects people) tend to evoke more fear and elevate perceptions of threat severity and susceptibility relative to those that assign agency to humans (e.g., people contract HIV). The present experiment ( N = 843) extended these findings to a nonliving health threat, radon gas, and compared nonsentient (e.g., radon gas is seeping . . .) and sentient (e.g., radon gas is invadin…
Online Health Information Seeking
Older adults may benefit from special instructions designed to boost Internet trust, for example, learning how to distinguish between high and low quality health-related websites
Request Fulfillment in Office Practice
BACKGROUND: Patients communicate their desires and expectations largely by making requests. However, the antecedents and consequences of request fulfillment have received limited attention. OBJECTIVE: To describe patient and physician characteristics associated with request fulfillment and to understand the consequences of request fulfillment and nonfulfillment on visit evaluations by patients and physicians, self-reported health care use, and he…
Fear of Aids
Idiomatic Communication and Interpersonal Solidarity in Friends' Relational Cultures
This study examined the relationship of interpersonal solidarity to various aspects of idiomatic communication in friends’ relational cultures. A pilot study determined that the typology of idiom functions used in past investigations of romantic relationships could be extended to friendship. The idioms described functioned to name activities, emotional states, objects, and places; communicate affection; manage confrontations; accomplish greetings…
Is It Lonely at the Top
Robert A. Bell, Michael E. Roloff, Karen Van Camp, Susan H. Karol; Is It Lonely at the Top?: Career Success and Personal Relationships, Journal of Communic
A Comment on Krokoff's 'Recruiting Representative Samples for Marital Interaction Research
Krokoff (1987) recently described a three-stage procedure for generat- ing representative samples of couples in marital interaction research. He encouraged investigators to: (1) draw random samples from telephone directories; (2) use direct recruitment mailings to facilitate participation; and (3) employ informational meetings in couples' homes to describe the study, collect preliminary data and deal with barriers to participation. This brief com…
Plans and the Initiation of Social Relationships
Journal Article Plans and the Initiation of Social Relationships Get access Charles R. Berger, Charles R. Berger 1Charles R. Berger (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1968) is professor of communication studies at Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert A. Bell Robert A. Bell 2Robert A. Bell (Ph.D., University of Texas, 1984) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication at th…
Affinity-Maintenance in Marriage and Its Relationship to Women's Marital Satisfaction
This article describes the strategies married couples use to maintain the quality of their bonds. After developing a typology of affinity-maintenance strategies, we assessed the relationship of women's perceptions of maintenance activities within their marriages to their marital satisfaction. Each participant completed the Marital Relationship Inventory and then rated how frequently she and her husband used each strategy, how personally important…
"Did You Bring the Yarmulke for the Cabbage Patch Kid?" The Idiomatic Communication of Young Lovers
Journal Article "Did You Bring the Yarmulke for the Cabbage Patch Kid?": The Idiomatic Communication of Young Lovers Get access Robert A. Bell, Robert A. Bell 1Robert A. Bell (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1984) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication, University of California, Davis, California, 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss, Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss…
The multivariate structure of communication avoidance
Communication scholars have given much attention to individual differences in communication avoidance. This interest has led to the development of numerous constructs, e.g., communication apprehension, reticence, unwillingness‐to‐communicate, and interaction involvement. Comparative analyses of the various constructs have typically drawn conclusions about their conceptual relatedness on the basis of statistical associations among their respective…
Conversational involvement and loneliness
The relationship of conversational involvement to loneliness was assessed. Sixty chronically lonely and 60 nonlonely people were selected from a pool of 968 college students with known loneliness scores. Each participant had a 10‐minute, videotaped, “get acquainted” conversation with an opposite‐sex “partner.” Afterwards, participants recalled as many details of their conversations as possible. Participants and partners completed measures of comm…
Conceptualizing Conversational Complexity
A successful conversation requires participants to have knowledge of both the topic under discussion and the nature of conversation. This study asks whether people who are more sophisticated in their representation of conversation behave differently than their less sophisticated counterparts. This issue was probed by devising two operationalizations of what we call Conversational complexity. The two measures assessed peoples' constructs about con…
Compliments
Mark L. Knapp, Robert Hopper, Robert A. Bell; Compliments: A Descriptive Taxonomy, Journal of Communication, Volume 34, Issue 4, 1 December 1984, Pages 12
Relationship of Loneliness to Desirability and Uniqueness of First Names
The affinity‐seeking function of communication
A model of the affinity‐seeking function of communication is introduced and explicated. The affinity‐seeking construct describes ways people get others to like and feel positive about them. The research is grounded in the presumption that people attempt to generate liking by using various communication strategies. Four questions were addressed in six studies: (1) How do people attempt to generate liking? (2) What is the relationship of affinity‐s…
Broadening the deception construct
This essay argues for an enlarged conceptualization of deception. A multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments of forty‐six deception‐related terms identified a number of aspects underlying the construct. They included evaluation, detectability, and premeditation. The elicited terms were subjected to a hierarchical cluster analysis, which revealed six families of deception: fictions, playings, lies, crimes, masks, and unlies. Implications o…
The affinity‐seeking function of communication
A model of the affinity‐seeking function of communication is introduced and explicated. The affinity‐seeking construct describes ways people get others to like and feel positive about them. The research is grounded in the presumption that people attempt to generate liking by using various communication strategies. Four questions were addressed in six studies: (1) How do people attempt to generate liking? (2) What is the relationship of affinity‐s…
Plans and the Initiation of Social Relationships
Journal Article Plans and the Initiation of Social Relationships Get access Charles R. Berger, Charles R. Berger 1Charles R. Berger (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1968) is professor of communication studies at Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert A. Bell Robert A. Bell 2Robert A. Bell (Ph.D., University of Texas, 1984) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication at th…
Affinity-Maintenance in Marriage and Its Relationship to Women's Marital Satisfaction
This article describes the strategies married couples use to maintain the quality of their bonds. After developing a typology of affinity-maintenance strategies, we assessed the relationship of women's perceptions of maintenance activities within their marriages to their marital satisfaction. Each participant completed the Marital Relationship Inventory and then rated how frequently she and her husband used each strategy, how personally important…
"Did You Bring the Yarmulke for the Cabbage Patch Kid?" The Idiomatic Communication of Young Lovers
Journal Article "Did You Bring the Yarmulke for the Cabbage Patch Kid?": The Idiomatic Communication of Young Lovers Get access Robert A. Bell, Robert A. Bell 1Robert A. Bell (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1984) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication, University of California, Davis, California, 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss, Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss…
Idiomatic Communication and Interpersonal Solidarity in Friends' Relational Cultures
This study examined the relationship of interpersonal solidarity to various aspects of idiomatic communication in friends’ relational cultures. A pilot study determined that the typology of idiom functions used in past investigations of romantic relationships could be extended to friendship. The idioms described functioned to name activities, emotional states, objects, and places; communicate affection; manage confrontations; accomplish greetings…
Broadening the deception construct
This essay argues for an enlarged conceptualization of deception. A multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments of forty‐six deception‐related terms identified a number of aspects underlying the construct. They included evaluation, detectability, and premeditation. The elicited terms were subjected to a hierarchical cluster analysis, which revealed six families of deception: fictions, playings, lies, crimes, masks, and unlies. Implications o…
Conceptualizing Conversational Complexity
A successful conversation requires participants to have knowledge of both the topic under discussion and the nature of conversation. This study asks whether people who are more sophisticated in their representation of conversation behave differently than their less sophisticated counterparts. This issue was probed by devising two operationalizations of what we call Conversational complexity. The two measures assessed peoples' constructs about con…
Conversational involvement and loneliness
The relationship of conversational involvement to loneliness was assessed. Sixty chronically lonely and 60 nonlonely people were selected from a pool of 968 college students with known loneliness scores. Each participant had a 10‐minute, videotaped, “get acquainted” conversation with an opposite‐sex “partner.” Afterwards, participants recalled as many details of their conversations as possible. Participants and partners completed measures of comm…
Online Health Information Seeking
Older adults may benefit from special instructions designed to boost Internet trust, for example, learning how to distinguish between high and low quality health-related websites
Giving Radon Gas Life Through Language
Health messages that linguistically assign agency to a threat (e.g., HIV infects people) tend to evoke more fear and elevate perceptions of threat severity and susceptibility relative to those that assign agency to humans (e.g., people contract HIV). The present experiment ( N = 843) extended these findings to a nonliving health threat, radon gas, and compared nonsentient (e.g., radon gas is seeping . . .) and sentient (e.g., radon gas is invadin…
A Comment on Krokoff's 'Recruiting Representative Samples for Marital Interaction Research
Krokoff (1987) recently described a three-stage procedure for generat- ing representative samples of couples in marital interaction research. He encouraged investigators to: (1) draw random samples from telephone directories; (2) use direct recruitment mailings to facilitate participation; and (3) employ informational meetings in couples' homes to describe the study, collect preliminary data and deal with barriers to participation. This brief com…
Compliments
Mark L. Knapp, Robert Hopper, Robert A. Bell; Compliments: A Descriptive Taxonomy, Journal of Communication, Volume 34, Issue 4, 1 December 1984, Pages 12
Relationship of Loneliness to Desirability and Uniqueness of First Names
The affinity‐seeking function of communication
A model of the affinity‐seeking function of communication is introduced and explicated. The affinity‐seeking construct describes ways people get others to like and feel positive about them. The research is grounded in the presumption that people attempt to generate liking by using various communication strategies. Four questions were addressed in six studies: (1) How do people attempt to generate liking? (2) What is the relationship of affinity‐s…
Broadening the deception construct
This essay argues for an enlarged conceptualization of deception. A multidimensional scaling of similarity judgments of forty‐six deception‐related terms identified a number of aspects underlying the construct. They included evaluation, detectability, and premeditation. The elicited terms were subjected to a hierarchical cluster analysis, which revealed six families of deception: fictions, playings, lies, crimes, masks, and unlies. Implications o…
Conversational involvement and loneliness
The relationship of conversational involvement to loneliness was assessed. Sixty chronically lonely and 60 nonlonely people were selected from a pool of 968 college students with known loneliness scores. Each participant had a 10‐minute, videotaped, “get acquainted” conversation with an opposite‐sex “partner.” Afterwards, participants recalled as many details of their conversations as possible. Participants and partners completed measures of comm…
Conceptualizing Conversational Complexity
A successful conversation requires participants to have knowledge of both the topic under discussion and the nature of conversation. This study asks whether people who are more sophisticated in their representation of conversation behave differently than their less sophisticated counterparts. This issue was probed by devising two operationalizations of what we call Conversational complexity. The two measures assessed peoples' constructs about con…
The multivariate structure of communication avoidance
Communication scholars have given much attention to individual differences in communication avoidance. This interest has led to the development of numerous constructs, e.g., communication apprehension, reticence, unwillingness‐to‐communicate, and interaction involvement. Comparative analyses of the various constructs have typically drawn conclusions about their conceptual relatedness on the basis of statistical associations among their respective…
Affinity-Maintenance in Marriage and Its Relationship to Women's Marital Satisfaction
This article describes the strategies married couples use to maintain the quality of their bonds. After developing a typology of affinity-maintenance strategies, we assessed the relationship of women's perceptions of maintenance activities within their marriages to their marital satisfaction. Each participant completed the Marital Relationship Inventory and then rated how frequently she and her husband used each strategy, how personally important…
"Did You Bring the Yarmulke for the Cabbage Patch Kid?" The Idiomatic Communication of Young Lovers
Journal Article "Did You Bring the Yarmulke for the Cabbage Patch Kid?": The Idiomatic Communication of Young Lovers Get access Robert A. Bell, Robert A. Bell 1Robert A. Bell (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1984) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication, University of California, Davis, California, 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss, Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss…
Plans and the Initiation of Social Relationships
Journal Article Plans and the Initiation of Social Relationships Get access Charles R. Berger, Charles R. Berger 1Charles R. Berger (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1968) is professor of communication studies at Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert A. Bell Robert A. Bell 2Robert A. Bell (Ph.D., University of Texas, 1984) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication at th…
A Comment on Krokoff's 'Recruiting Representative Samples for Marital Interaction Research
Krokoff (1987) recently described a three-stage procedure for generat- ing representative samples of couples in marital interaction research. He encouraged investigators to: (1) draw random samples from telephone directories; (2) use direct recruitment mailings to facilitate participation; and (3) employ informational meetings in couples' homes to describe the study, collect preliminary data and deal with barriers to participation. This brief com…
Is It Lonely at the Top
Robert A. Bell, Michael E. Roloff, Karen Van Camp, Susan H. Karol; Is It Lonely at the Top?: Career Success and Personal Relationships, Journal of Communic
Idiomatic Communication and Interpersonal Solidarity in Friends' Relational Cultures
This study examined the relationship of interpersonal solidarity to various aspects of idiomatic communication in friends’ relational cultures. A pilot study determined that the typology of idiom functions used in past investigations of romantic relationships could be extended to friendship. The idioms described functioned to name activities, emotional states, objects, and places; communicate affection; manage confrontations; accomplish greetings…
Fear of Aids
Request Fulfillment in Office Practice
BACKGROUND: Patients communicate their desires and expectations largely by making requests. However, the antecedents and consequences of request fulfillment have received limited attention. OBJECTIVE: To describe patient and physician characteristics associated with request fulfillment and to understand the consequences of request fulfillment and nonfulfillment on visit evaluations by patients and physicians, self-reported health care use, and he…
Online Health Information Seeking
Older adults may benefit from special instructions designed to boost Internet trust, for example, learning how to distinguish between high and low quality health-related websites
Giving Radon Gas Life Through Language
Health messages that linguistically assign agency to a threat (e.g., HIV infects people) tend to evoke more fear and elevate perceptions of threat severity and susceptibility relative to those that assign agency to humans (e.g., people contract HIV). The present experiment ( N = 843) extended these findings to a nonliving health threat, radon gas, and compared nonsentient (e.g., radon gas is seeping . . .) and sentient (e.g., radon gas is invadin…
Predictors of intention to vaccinate against Covid-19
From Network Positions to Language Use
We investigated cancer survivors' interactions on an online breast cancer support forum, focusing on how the network structures of brokerage and closure relate to the types of support received and to the language used in posts. Data came through the extraction of 1,443 forum members' online networks. Automated linguistic analysis was carried out on the 27,248 threads these survivors made and the 336,151 replies they received. Survivors' brokerage…
A meta-analysis of the impact of point of view on narrative processing and persuasion in health messaging
Contradictory and complex health messages
Contradictory and complex health messages are prevalent in the media and can lead to uncertainty in decision-making. We explore if the theoretical distinction between message contradiction and complexity is manifested in laypersons’ perceptions. U.S. adults (N = 584) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: contradictory messages, complex messages, or no-message control. Participants in the message conditions read contradictory or compl…
Persuasive Narratives About Osteoporosis
Narratives have been widely acknowledged as a powerful persuasion tool in health promotion and education. Recently, great efforts have been devoted to identifying message components and causal pathways that maximize a narrative’s persuasion power. Specifically, we investigated how narrator point of view and readers’ subjective relative risk moderate the effects of protagonist competence on intentions to adopt osteoporosis-prevention behaviors, an…
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