Adam S Richards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 907045 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adam S Richards |
| PRENOMES | Adam S |
| SOBRENOME | Richards |
| ASSINATURA | RICHARDS A S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Furman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3721-5622 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
When is Injunctive Norms Messaging Counterproductive? Exploring the Effect of Language Variation in Social Norms Messaging on Psychological Reactance
Scholars speculate that injunctive norms messages elicit more psycholgical reactance compared to descriptive norms messages. This research argues that the commonly employed linguistic variations of injunctive norms messages account for reactance effects rather than the injunctive norms vs. descriptive norms difference itself. We employed a 5 (norms messaging: descriptive norms vs. injunctive norms approval vs. injunctive norms disapproval vs. inj…
Psychological reactance theory and politeness theory
An Exploratory Study of the Associations Between Epstein–Barr Virus Antibodies and Forgiveness Among Recipients of Relational Transgressions in the USA
Forgiveness is an important component of many of the world’s religions that also has benefits for individuals’ health and relationships. Research on the health benefits of forgiveness is couched predominately in the stress and coping framework, which views forgiveness as buffering the stress associated with unforgiving feelings. This exploratory study ( N = 47) elaborated on the stress and coping framework by investigating it in conversation with…
Predicting Satisfaction of Parents of Pediatric Patients
This research investigated the predictors of satisfaction for parents of pediatric patients after a clinical consultation. Specifically, we assessed whether perceptions of their provider’s communication quality influenced the degree to which their (dis)satisfaction with consultation length associated with their provider rating and intent to recommend the provider’s office. Using patient satisfaction survey data collected after initial clinical vi…
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users' weight loss
Despite the common use of social media to discuss health issues, little is known about how features of user-generated content influence users' health outcomes. To address this gap, we longitudinally studied large-scale conversations on the subreddit r/loseit, an online weight loss community, by computationally analyzing the themes and sentiment of users' posts and examining their associations with users' self-reported weight loss. Our study ident…
Reducing Psychological Reactance to Health Promotion Messages
This study compared the relative efficacy of two strategies designed to mitigate psychological reactance in health campaigns by using reminders of behavioral autonomy: preemptive scripts, which appear before the appeal, and restoration postscripts, which appear after. Employing a mixed-model experiment with a 2 (threat to freedom: low vs. high) × 3 (reactance-mitigation strategy: control vs. preemptive script vs. restoration postscript) × 2 (heal…
Petty in Pink
This research assessed whether the color of a female politician’s clothing affected perceptions of her verbal aggression. In the context of Kamala Harris attacking Donald Trump, a 2 (color: pink vs. gray) × 2 (verbal aggression: low vs. high) experiment was conducted. While wearing pink, participants perceived Harris as more competent and reported more message-consistent perceptions if she used low rather than high verbal aggression. While wearin…
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete
Three experiments tested if the machine and bandwagon heuristics moderate beliefs in fact-checked claims under different conditions of human/machine (dis)agreement and of transparency of the fact-checking system. Across experiments, people were more likely to align their belief in the claim when artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourcing agents’ fact-checks were congruent rather than incongruent. The heuristics provided further nuance to the …
Freedom-prompting reactance mitigation strategies function differently across levels of trait reactance
This study assessed the relative effects of reactance mitigation strategies specifically designed to prevent or restore threatened autonomy according to message recipients’ levels of reactance proneness. An experiment (N = 230) using a 2 (inoculation mitigation: present vs. absent) × 2 (freedom threatening language: high vs. low) × 2 (restoration postscript mitigation: present vs. absent) between-subjects design was performed in the context of a …
Apprehension or motivation to defend attitudes? Exploring the underlying threat mechanism in inoculation-induced resistance to persuasion
This study questions the traditional conceptualization of the threat component of inoculation and compares it to an alternative operationalization that was hypothesized to better capture the psychological function of threat according to inoculation theory, focusing less on an apprehensive response in favor of how inoculation treatments cognitively function to motivate resistance. Two measures of threat were contrasted by examining resistance to 9…
Influence of Evidence Type and Narrative Type on HPV Risk Perception and Intention to Obtain the HPV Vaccine
This research examines the influence of evidence type (statistical, narrative, or hybrid) and narrative type (first-person or third-person) on risk perception about human papillomavirus (HPV) and behavioral intention to get the HPV vaccine. In total, 174 college students who had not received the HPV vaccine participated in a controlled experiment. Results show that the hybrid message containing both statistical and narrative descriptions of HPV r…
Facial Similarity Mitigates the Persuasive Effects of Source Bias
This research examined how the interaction between a source's facial similarity to message targets and communicated bias affects audience persuadability. We used an evolutionary explanation to hypothesize that biased sources would elicit less favorable attitudes than unbiased sources for dissimilar sources, but that this difference would be absent for similar sources. Predictions were supported by results from a 2 (facial similarity) × 2 (source …
Conversation and Conformity Orientations as Predictors of Observed Conflict Tactics in Parent-Adolescent Discussions
This research considers how observed tactics and patterns in parent-adolescent conflict relate to family orientations toward communication. Fifty families (mother, father, and mid-adolescent child) discussed family changes desired by each person. In high versus low conformity families, parents (fathers especially) pressured more, were more confrontational, and were less conciliatory, whereas children were less analytic and more apt to withdraw in…
Blurting
Blurting is production of speech that is spontaneous, unedited, and negative in its repercussions. Study 1 (N = 230) analyzed open-ended descriptions of situations in which respondents had blurted and situations in which they had been tempted to blurt but stopped themselves. Coding of those materials supported our essential understanding of blurting. A self-report measure of blurting was developed and produced these findings: Blurters endorsed mo…
Apprehension or motivation to defend attitudes? Exploring the underlying threat mechanism in inoculation-induced resistance to persuasion
This study questions the traditional conceptualization of the threat component of inoculation and compares it to an alternative operationalization that was hypothesized to better capture the psychological function of threat according to inoculation theory, focusing less on an apprehensive response in favor of how inoculation treatments cognitively function to motivate resistance. Two measures of threat were contrasted by examining resistance to 9…
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete
Three experiments tested if the machine and bandwagon heuristics moderate beliefs in fact-checked claims under different conditions of human/machine (dis)agreement and of transparency of the fact-checking system. Across experiments, people were more likely to align their belief in the claim when artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourcing agents’ fact-checks were congruent rather than incongruent. The heuristics provided further nuance to the …
Conversation and Conformity Orientations as Predictors of Observed Conflict Tactics in Parent-Adolescent Discussions
This research considers how observed tactics and patterns in parent-adolescent conflict relate to family orientations toward communication. Fifty families (mother, father, and mid-adolescent child) discussed family changes desired by each person. In high versus low conformity families, parents (fathers especially) pressured more, were more confrontational, and were less conciliatory, whereas children were less analytic and more apt to withdraw in…
Blurting
Blurting is production of speech that is spontaneous, unedited, and negative in its repercussions. Study 1 (N = 230) analyzed open-ended descriptions of situations in which respondents had blurted and situations in which they had been tempted to blurt but stopped themselves. Coding of those materials supported our essential understanding of blurting. A self-report measure of blurting was developed and produced these findings: Blurters endorsed mo…
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users' weight loss
Despite the common use of social media to discuss health issues, little is known about how features of user-generated content influence users' health outcomes. To address this gap, we longitudinally studied large-scale conversations on the subreddit r/loseit, an online weight loss community, by computationally analyzing the themes and sentiment of users' posts and examining their associations with users' self-reported weight loss. Our study ident…
Blurting
Blurting is production of speech that is spontaneous, unedited, and negative in its repercussions. Study 1 (N = 230) analyzed open-ended descriptions of situations in which respondents had blurted and situations in which they had been tempted to blurt but stopped themselves. Coding of those materials supported our essential understanding of blurting. A self-report measure of blurting was developed and produced these findings: Blurters endorsed mo…
Conversation and Conformity Orientations as Predictors of Observed Conflict Tactics in Parent-Adolescent Discussions
This research considers how observed tactics and patterns in parent-adolescent conflict relate to family orientations toward communication. Fifty families (mother, father, and mid-adolescent child) discussed family changes desired by each person. In high versus low conformity families, parents (fathers especially) pressured more, were more confrontational, and were less conciliatory, whereas children were less analytic and more apt to withdraw in…
Influence of Evidence Type and Narrative Type on HPV Risk Perception and Intention to Obtain the HPV Vaccine
This research examines the influence of evidence type (statistical, narrative, or hybrid) and narrative type (first-person or third-person) on risk perception about human papillomavirus (HPV) and behavioral intention to get the HPV vaccine. In total, 174 college students who had not received the HPV vaccine participated in a controlled experiment. Results show that the hybrid message containing both statistical and narrative descriptions of HPV r…
Facial Similarity Mitigates the Persuasive Effects of Source Bias
This research examined how the interaction between a source's facial similarity to message targets and communicated bias affects audience persuadability. We used an evolutionary explanation to hypothesize that biased sources would elicit less favorable attitudes than unbiased sources for dissimilar sources, but that this difference would be absent for similar sources. Predictions were supported by results from a 2 (facial similarity) × 2 (source …
Apprehension or motivation to defend attitudes? Exploring the underlying threat mechanism in inoculation-induced resistance to persuasion
This study questions the traditional conceptualization of the threat component of inoculation and compares it to an alternative operationalization that was hypothesized to better capture the psychological function of threat according to inoculation theory, focusing less on an apprehensive response in favor of how inoculation treatments cognitively function to motivate resistance. Two measures of threat were contrasted by examining resistance to 9…
Freedom-prompting reactance mitigation strategies function differently across levels of trait reactance
This study assessed the relative effects of reactance mitigation strategies specifically designed to prevent or restore threatened autonomy according to message recipients’ levels of reactance proneness. An experiment (N = 230) using a 2 (inoculation mitigation: present vs. absent) × 2 (freedom threatening language: high vs. low) × 2 (restoration postscript mitigation: present vs. absent) between-subjects design was performed in the context of a …
Reducing Psychological Reactance to Health Promotion Messages
This study compared the relative efficacy of two strategies designed to mitigate psychological reactance in health campaigns by using reminders of behavioral autonomy: preemptive scripts, which appear before the appeal, and restoration postscripts, which appear after. Employing a mixed-model experiment with a 2 (threat to freedom: low vs. high) × 3 (reactance-mitigation strategy: control vs. preemptive script vs. restoration postscript) × 2 (heal…
Petty in Pink
This research assessed whether the color of a female politician’s clothing affected perceptions of her verbal aggression. In the context of Kamala Harris attacking Donald Trump, a 2 (color: pink vs. gray) × 2 (verbal aggression: low vs. high) experiment was conducted. While wearing pink, participants perceived Harris as more competent and reported more message-consistent perceptions if she used low rather than high verbal aggression. While wearin…
When Machine and Bandwagon Heuristics Compete
Three experiments tested if the machine and bandwagon heuristics moderate beliefs in fact-checked claims under different conditions of human/machine (dis)agreement and of transparency of the fact-checking system. Across experiments, people were more likely to align their belief in the claim when artificial intelligence (AI) and crowdsourcing agents’ fact-checks were congruent rather than incongruent. The heuristics provided further nuance to the …
Theme and sentiment of posts in a weight loss subreddit predict popularity, engagement, and users' weight loss
Despite the common use of social media to discuss health issues, little is known about how features of user-generated content influence users' health outcomes. To address this gap, we longitudinally studied large-scale conversations on the subreddit r/loseit, an online weight loss community, by computationally analyzing the themes and sentiment of users' posts and examining their associations with users' self-reported weight loss. Our study ident…
Predicting Satisfaction of Parents of Pediatric Patients
This research investigated the predictors of satisfaction for parents of pediatric patients after a clinical consultation. Specifically, we assessed whether perceptions of their provider’s communication quality influenced the degree to which their (dis)satisfaction with consultation length associated with their provider rating and intent to recommend the provider’s office. Using patient satisfaction survey data collected after initial clinical vi…
An Exploratory Study of the Associations Between Epstein–Barr Virus Antibodies and Forgiveness Among Recipients of Relational Transgressions in the USA
Forgiveness is an important component of many of the world’s religions that also has benefits for individuals’ health and relationships. Research on the health benefits of forgiveness is couched predominately in the stress and coping framework, which views forgiveness as buffering the stress associated with unforgiving feelings. This exploratory study ( N = 47) elaborated on the stress and coping framework by investigating it in conversation with…
When is Injunctive Norms Messaging Counterproductive? Exploring the Effect of Language Variation in Social Norms Messaging on Psychological Reactance
Scholars speculate that injunctive norms messages elicit more psycholgical reactance compared to descriptive norms messages. This research argues that the commonly employed linguistic variations of injunctive norms messages account for reactance effects rather than the injunctive norms vs. descriptive norms difference itself. We employed a 5 (norms messaging: descriptive norms vs. injunctive norms approval vs. injunctive norms disapproval vs. inj…
Psychological reactance theory and politeness theory
Psychology (13 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Perception (4 obras) · Reactance (4 obras) · Cognitive psychology (3 obras) · Media Influence and Health (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras)