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Let the People Speak: A Multilevel Model of Supply and Demand for Press Freedom 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
Democracy and press freedom have a long, intertwined history. This article builds on previous research examining democratic consolidation by developing a theoretical model to explicate the multilevel ...
Attention, Attitude, and Behavior: Second-Level Agenda-Setting Effects as a Mediator of Media Use and Political Participation 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
Based on news content analysis and survey data from the 2004 presidential election, this study examines the theoretical link between second-level agenda setting and various types of political particip...
Processes of Political Socialization: A Communication Mediation Approach to Youth Civic Engagement 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
By analyzing data from a national panel survey of adolescents (ages 12-17) and their parents conducted around the 2008 general election, this study explores the varied roles communication plays in soc...
Supportive Parenting as a Moderator of Perceived Ethnic/Racial Discrimination's Associations With Psychological and Academic Adjustment: A Comparison ... 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
With the academic risk and resilience perspective, this study examined whether global, authority, and teacher discrimination were indirectly related to academic motivation through self-esteem and depr...
Examining Cultural Similarities and Differences in Responses to Advice: A Comparison of American and Chinese College Students 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
The present study compared and contrasted American and Chinese college students’ responses to advice by examining the impact of perceived advice content features (response efficacy, feasibility, absen...
Forgiveness in the United States and China: Antecedents, Consequences, and Communication Style Comparisons 26 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
To better understand how culture influences the interpersonal forgiveness process, this study examined forgiveness communication in United States and Chinese relationships. Four key forgiveness antece...
The Communication Styles Inventory (CSI): A Six-Dimensional Behavioral Model of Communication Styles and Its Relation With Personality 24 Jun 2013 | 03:46 pm
In this study, a six-dimensional model of communication styles is proposed and operationalized using the Communication Styles Inventory (CSI). The CSI distinguishes between six domain-level communicat...
Television News, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War: Do Wartime Rationales Matter? 24 Jun 2013 | 03:46 pm
The idea that the public is swayed by the rationales for war that circulate throughout the media environment is well established in popular discourse. Research on the determinants of support for war, ...
When the World Outside Gets Inside Your Head: The Effects of Media Context on Perceptions of Public Opinion 24 Jun 2013 | 03:46 pm
Citizens are variably influenced by information flow depending on their location within a social structure. One method of understanding this influence is through an assessment of multiple levels of an...
Stimulating the Quasi-statistical Organ: Fear of Social Isolation Motivates the Quest for Knowledge of the Opinion Climate 24 Jun 2013 | 03:46 pm
We test an uninvestigated proposition from spiral of silence theory that fear of social isolation (FSI) prompts people to seek out information about the climate of public opinion. Taking a trait-based...
