Communication Reports articles from April 1 2005

Communication Reports archives from April 1 2005

Comparing survey and diary measures of Internet and traditional media use.
April 1, 2005... Considerable debate exists over the accuracy of self-reported media use measures. This report compares two methodologies for studying Internet and traditional media use: online surveys and diaries. A study was conducted with undergraduate...

Lie-biased decision making in prison.
April 1, 2005... Levine and McCornack (1992)found that persons who have a truth-bias (those who tend to believe that most messages are truthful) exhibit low detection accuracy, that moderately suspicious people are more accurate at detecting, and suggested that...

The appeal of media violence in a full-length motion picture: an experimental investigation.
April 1, 2005... This paper reports the results of an experiment that examined the appeal of violence in a full-length motion picture. College students (N = 134) were randomly assigned to view one of two different versions of The Fugitive. One version was the...

Physical symptoms of discomfort associated with worry about giving a public speech.
April 1, 2005... While reports of anxiety about public speaking are common, the specific ways in which individual speakers are impacted varies considerably. Researchers of public speaking state anxiety have found support for the operation of Gray's (1995a)...

Degrading content and character sex: accounting for men and women's differential reactions to pornography.
April 1, 2005... This study examines sex differences in arousal to non-violent sexually explicit videos and viewers' perceptions of the character traits that distinguish degrading from non-degrading content. Men and women were exposed to either neutral, erotic...

Performance visualization and behavioral disruption: a clarification.
April 1, 2005... Current data suggest that performance visualization is an effective way to reduce communication apprehension (Ayres, Hopf, & Ayres 1997), but performance visualization has not been as effective in reducing behavioral disruption as might be...

Causal attributions for collaborative public speaking presentations in college classes.
April 1, 2005... The present study applied attribution theory in examining how college students interpret success and failure for themselves and their partners in collaborative presentations. Questionnaires were completed by 174 students based on a 2 (positive...

Political knowledge and sponsorship in backlash from party- and candidate-sponsored attacks.
April 1, 2005... Apparently wary of backlash, candidates are sponsoring fewer negative ads while their party's national committees do more of the dirty work. In this experiment (N = I07), contrary to expectations, candidate evaluations were more positive when...

Evaluations of supportive messages provided by friends and romantic partners: an attachment theory approach.
April 1, 2005... In a questionnaire study of 270 college students we investigated relationships of adult attachment-style dimensions and perceptions of comforting messages received from friends and romantic partners. We found that comfort with closeness,...

Affect intensity and sensitivity to punishment as predictors of sensitization (arousal) during public speaking.
April 1, 2005... Recent studies of state anxiety patterns show that sensitization during the first minute of speech performance affects a substantial number of novice speakers. Because sensitization delays or obstructs adaptation to public speaking, thereby...