Category Archives: Communication Research

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study examined whether incidental exposure (IE) to climate content on social media can foster online climate change engagement among mid-to-late adolescents, using two-wave panel data (Nw1 & w2 = 574) gather… Continue reading Reciprocal Relationships Between Adolescents’ Incidental Exposure to Climate-Related Social Media Content and Online Climate Change Engagement→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study examined whether incidental exposure (IE) to climate content on social media can foster online climate change engagement among mid-to-late adolescents, using two-wave panel data (Nw1 & w2 = 574) gather… Continue reading Reciprocal Relationships Between Adolescents’ Incidental Exposure to Climate-Related Social Media Content and Online Climate Change Engagement→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. An experiment was conducted to better understand how impression management concerns and the communication medium influence the messages produced by support seekers during supportive conversations. Support seekers… Continue reading Support Seeking Behavior During Supportive Conversations: The Role of Impression Management Concerns and the Communication Medium→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. An experiment was conducted to better understand how impression management concerns and the communication medium influence the messages produced by support seekers during supportive conversations. Support seekers… Continue reading Support Seeking Behavior During Supportive Conversations: The Role of Impression Management Concerns and the Communication Medium→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study examined the relationship between perceptions of relational history, namely, past relational challenges, and everyday social interaction experiences. In efforts to build upon and extend previous resear… Continue reading Past Relational Experiences and Social Interaction: Direct, Moderated, and Mediated Associations Between Relational Difficulty, Communication, and Perception in Two Samples→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. This study examined the relationship between perceptions of relational history, namely, past relational challenges, and everyday social interaction experiences. In efforts to build upon and extend previous resear… Continue reading Past Relational Experiences and Social Interaction: Direct, Moderated, and Mediated Associations Between Relational Difficulty, Communication, and Perception in Two Samples→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Romantic comedies have long been understood to create unrealistic views of relationships. In the current study, we tested theory-driven corrective strategies for counteracting potentially harmful beliefs about ro… Continue reading The Effects of Corrective Strategies on Romantic Belief Endorsement→

Communication Research, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 285-309, April 2024. Romantic comedies have long been understood to create unrealistic views of relationships. In the current study, we tested theory-driven corrective strategies for counteracting potent… Continue reading The Effects of Corrective Strategies on Romantic Belief Endorsement→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Drawing upon relational turbulence theory and the experiencing life transitions model, this study examined communication and relationship qualities as married couples experienced work-family changes during the CO… Continue reading A Repeated-Measures Study of Relational Turbulence and Transition Processing Communication During the Summer of COVID-19 (Summer 2020)→

Communication Research, Ahead of Print. Focusing on a polarized issue—U.S. gun violence—this study examines agenda setting as an antecedent of political expression on social media. A state-of-the-art machine-learning model was used to analyze news cove… Continue reading Agenda Setting, Cross-cutting Effects, and Political Expression on Social Media: The Gun Violence Case→