Category Archives: Communication Research

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Risk information avoidance (RIA) has become an increasingly ubiquitous behavior for people to deal with massive volumes of information. Given its detrimental impact, abundant studies were conducted to explore its… Continue reading Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Sociocultural Factors on Risk Information Avoidance: A Meta-Analysis→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study analyzes survey data from 206 trans workers to test the premises of crystallized self theory by exploring how perceived authenticity and identity communication (i.e., explicit outness, implicit outness… Continue reading Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. While social media is assumed to exacerbate adolescents’ depressive symptoms, research findings are ambiguous. One way to move the field forward is by looking beyond time spent on social media and considering sub… Continue reading When Adolescents’ Self-Worth Depends on Their Social Media Feedback: A Longitudinal Investigation With Depressive Symptoms→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Given the vast amount of permanently available entertainment content and the high pleasure that viewers derive from it, the question of when and why users disengage from a media entertainment viewing session beco… Continue reading Why Do Users Stop Pleasurable Media Experiences? The Dynamics of Media Experiences and Their Impact on Media Disengagement→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Active listening is a promising communication technique to positively affect interactions and communication outcomes. However, theoretical propositions regarding its direct effects on interactions have rarely bee… Continue reading Active Listening in Integrative Negotiation→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. The growing adoption of artificial intelligence in journalism has dramatically changed the way news is produced. Despite the recent proliferation of research on automated journalism, debate continues about how au… Continue reading The Impact of Machine Authorship on News Audience Perceptions: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Social media expose users to an abundance of information about various issues. But they also make it difficult for users to assess the quality of this information. If users do not recognize this, they may overest… Continue reading The Interplay of Knowledge Overestimation, Social Media Use, and Populist Ideas: Cross-Sectional and Experimental Evidence From Germany and Taiwan→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Guided by psychological reactance theory, we examined the effects of language features on arousing reactance and communication outcomes. Results of a 2 (controllingness; high/low) × 2 (concreteness; concrete/abst… Continue reading The Effects of Language Features and Accents on the Arousal of Psychological Reactance and Communication Outcomes→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Research has investigated emotional responses to perceived political incivility but not whether aspects of emotionality may be perceived as uncivil. When politicians display or evoke anger, they may increase demo… Continue reading Emotional Markers of Disrespect: A Fourth Dimension of Perceived Political Incivility?→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Can news avoidance be considered a stable personal “trait,” adhering to a specific group of consistent news avoiders, or is it rather a volatile “state” reflecting temporal variations in audience practices? Based… Continue reading Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality→