Stephen A Spates

Dados Biográficos

ID6624779
NOMEStephen A Spates
PRENOMESStephen A
SOBRENOMESpates
ASSINATURASPATES S A
AFILIAÇÕESMichigan State University
ORCID0000-0001-9708-9547
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Evidence about racial discrimination and White Republicans’ beliefs and attitudes

    Daniel E Bergan, Stephen A SpatesARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2026

    OBJECTIVE: We explore whether people's beliefs and attitudes about race are responsive to evidence about the prevalence of discrimination. Partisan polarization in recent years around racial issues, as well as ego- and system-defensive motivations, may prevent people from accepting even strong, easily communicated evidence about discrimination. METHOD: This article replicates earlier work (Bergan et al., 2025) communicating evidence about discrim…

  • Visual attention and retention effects of a design element in culturally targeted messages

    Open AccessMoonsun Jeon, Sue Lim et al.ARTICLECommunication Quarterly2026

  • Revisiting Identity Cues and Helpfulness Heuristics in Online Learning

    Open AccessXialing Lin, Kenneth A Lachlan et al.ARTICLECommunication Studies2025

    Previous research has consistently demonstrated that offering help in online communication is beneficial, regardless of the helper’s identity. However, studies in the context of online learning, specifically within learning management systems (LMS) discussion boards, highlight the need to reevaluate the impact of identity on helpfulness. The current study aims to replicate earlier findings with a more rigorous examination of the variables and man…

  • Examining perceptions and outcomes of AI versus human course assistant discussions in the online classroom

    Patric R Spence, Renee Kaufmann et al.ARTICLECommunication Education2024

    As technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and other forms of machine communication become more popular and readily available, the opportunities for use in an online class increase. This replication and extension sought to understand and test the use of AI versus human communication in an online learning space—specifically the learning management system (LMS) discussion board. More specifically, the differences in student perceptions an…

  • Political Effects of Exposure to Evidence about Racial Discrimination

    Open AccessDaniel E Bergan, Stephen A Spates et al.ARTICLEPolitical Communication2024Referências: 12

  • Extending the understanding of online discussions

    Patric R Spence, Renee Kaufmann et al.ARTICLECommunication Education2023

    Previous research applied an affordance approach to the literature in instruction and pedagogy. Because of the continued trend in online instruction and course management, there exists a need to study the impact of technological affordances and communication in learning management systems. The current study replicates and extends research investigating the responses of undergraduate students to discussion comments on a course management page, in …

  • Exploring students’ perceptions of identity and helper heuristics in the online classroom discussion board

    Xialing Lin, Renee Kaufmann et al.ARTICLECommunication Education2022

    Although applied to numerous communication contexts, affordance approaches have yet to receive sustained attention in the instructional literature. The ongoing migration to online pedagogy suggests a need to examine the impact of technological affordances and communication in Learning Management Systems. To that end, an experimental study investigated the responses of undergraduate students to a course management page, in which the presence or ab…

  • Exploring Challenges of Hospital Chaplains in Transdisciplinary Teams

    Open AccessStephen A Spates, Catherine Y Kingsley Westerman et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2020

    Hospital chaplains experience obstacles in contributing to team objectives when a part of transdisciplinary teams. This case study explores the communication challenges of membership on transdisciplinary teams for hospital chaplains, using a fictional account based on data from a previous study. Chaplain David Howard is one of three chaplains at Grace Hospital and is assigned to the newly formed palliative care transdisciplinary team. The purpose…

  • Effects of taboo conversation topics on impression formation and task performance evaluation

    Open AccessHye Eun Lee, Catherine Kingsley Westerman et al.ARTICLESocial Behavior and Personality…2020

    We examined how taboo conversation topics, such as being arrested, religion, and one's body weight, affect impression formation and task performance. In an experiment with 109 women, each participant and a female research confederate, whom the participant believed to be another participant, had a conversation and were asked to complete a task. We manipulated the conversation topics and actual task performance of the confederate, and measured part…