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Title: Dunbar commentary. 1945-08-01
Creator: Dunbar, Willis Frederick, 1902-1970
Date: 1945-08-01
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In a "Dunbar commentary," Dr. Willis Dunbar discusses the skepticism and pessimism which he has seen follow in the wake of World War II. Dunbar argues that many of the problems which seem current and pressing have existed for decades, but that a rise in literacy and education have increased public awareness of them. Dunbar says that the solution for going forward is, through regulation and control, to place the common good before personal gain.

Title: Action and interaction in the social dyad : temporal measures of verbal behavior
Creator: Yamanaka, Kathleen Takako
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Breaks in Connectedness? The Meaning and Experience of Response Delays in Mobile Communication
Creator: Gray, Rebecca Anne
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Individuals are communicating with one another to an increasing extent on mobile phones, which have enabled them to carry on conversations with others from nearly wherever they are and throughout whatever they are doing during the day. Maintaining connections with others through mobile phones contributes both to a need for synchrony in communication across mobile devices as well as to perceptions of increased accessibility to others - expectations that others are available to us as needed or...
Show moreIndividuals are communicating with one another to an increasing extent on mobile phones, which have enabled them to carry on conversations with others from nearly wherever they are and throughout whatever they are doing during the day. Maintaining connections with others through mobile phones contributes both to a need for synchrony in communication across mobile devices as well as to perceptions of increased accessibility to others - expectations that others are available to us as needed or desired. However, feelings of accessibility to others do not always signify true, uninterrupted access to others, as individuals may be unavailable to communicate for a number of reasons or unresponsive even when available. In order to understand the meaning of response delays in mobile interaction for individuals’ sense of connectedness to others, I interviewed emerging adults to engage in discussion with interviewees about their experiences of delayed responses from communication partners, unpacking the impact these delays may or may not have had on their sense of connectedness to them. I found that our cohort’s response time expectations were heavily informed by prior communication experience with communication partners and social norms, as posited by expectancy violation theory (Burgoon, 1988), which lays out a framework for predicting antecedents to nonverbal behavior expectancies and outcomes of violations to those expectancies. Perceived availability of communication partners was another recurring, important driver of responsiveness expectations. In close dyads, it appears that availability expectations may be even more precise than they would otherwise be with other communication partners given the increased access to information they have about others’ schedules as well as the more extensive prior communication experience. With these more precise availability expectations come potentially more severe or concerning reactions to expectancy-violating response delays.The lack of a shared environmental context in mobile communication can render it impossible to know another’s true availability to respond, no matter how “fine-tuned” or precise one’s expectations of availability are. This introduced a new layer of complexity in individuals’ interpretations of response delays, especially in cases where availability of a communication partner was presumed but a response was still not received. Reactions to response time violations included emotional reactions and compensation behaviors (such as modality switching) as predicted by the expectancy violation framework. We did not observe evidence that repeated response time violations hurt relationships with primary, typically close communication partners in any detectable way to the interviewees. Most response time violations with main communication partners that were discussed with participants were forgiven, described post-hoc as excusable instances of non-response based on later-realized circumstances.Based on these interviews and our findings, I recommend future work to continue to unpack the complexity of availability, seeking to better determine the impact of misconceived notions of availability on the evaluation of response delays. I also propose that future work dig more deeply into the role of communicator reward valence on the interpretation of and reaction to response delays in mobile communication.
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Title: Message cost factors and their influence on selective exposure
Creator: Galloway, John Julian, 1939-
Date: 1973
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: A comparison of conventional and existential approaches to sociology as applied to the social psychological study of self-concept
Creator: Sank, Sherry
Date: 1972
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Attitude of priests toward celibacy
Creator: Rutledge, Thomas Maurice, 1938-
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The effects of sex of subject, sex of experimenter, audience during warm up, and audience during memorization on the learning and performance of verbal tasks
Creator: Good, Kenneth John
Date: 1970
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Utilitarian and hedonic motives of rumor transmission
Creator: Lee, Hyegyu
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study looked into a dual motive of rumor transmission, driven by informational and sensational features of rumor statements. Prior research of rumor has focused on only the informational value of rumors. However, that utilitarian perspective does not explain why highly implausible but sensational rumors are shared. Based on the utilitarianism and hedonism of the consumption motives of products, this study proposed that informational rumors are transmitted for utilitarian gratifications...
Show moreThis study looked into a dual motive of rumor transmission, driven by informational and sensational features of rumor statements. Prior research of rumor has focused on only the informational value of rumors. However, that utilitarian perspective does not explain why highly implausible but sensational rumors are shared. Based on the utilitarianism and hedonism of the consumption motives of products, this study proposed that informational rumors are transmitted for utilitarian gratifications while sensational but implausible rumors are transmitted for hedonic gratifications. Rumor believability and emotional arousal were proposed as mediating variables for the utilitarian motive process and for the hedonic motive process, respectively.Toward that end, an online experiment with college students was conducted in the Twitter context. A 2 (rumor informational value: high vs. low) x 2 (rumor sensational value: high vs. low) between-subjects design was employed. Rumor believability, emotional arousal, motives of rumor transmission, and the likelihood of rumor transmission, were measured after exposure to experimental stimuli. Results of structural equation model analyses suggest that, as predicted, informational rumors and sensational rumors are likely to be transmitted through different routes. Rumor informational value had a significant indirect effect on the utilitarian motives (i.e., fact-finding motive and information-providing motive) of rumor transmission through rumor believability. However, only the fact-finding motive was correlated with the likelihood of rumor transmission. As predicted, rumor sensational value predicted emotional arousal. However, unlike the prediction of this dissertation, emotional arousal did not predict the hedonic motive of rumor transmission, and the hedonic motive did not predict the likelihood of rumor transmission. Instead, emotional arousal directly impacted the likelihood of rumor transmission.By considering the role of emotional arousal and how psychological motives shape rumor transmission, this dissertation extended prior research on rumor in which the cognitive paradigm dominated. This dissertation provides deeper insight into rumor transmission, such as what becomes viral and why implausible rumors are shared. Theoretical and practical implications are further discussed.
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Title: Elements associated with activity and inactivity in formal organizations
Creator: Brown, Emory John, 1921-
Date: 1952
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Motivations for mate choice discrimination in an intergroup dating context
Creator: McDonald, Melissa
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Social psychological approaches to understanding intergroup bias often assume that the motivations underlying intergroup bias are the same for both men and women (e.g. Tajfel & Turner, 1979). An interdisciplinary perspective that integrates social psychological perspectives with evolutionary theory provides a framework for making predictions about instances in which the motivations for intergroup bias may differ between men and women. Over the course of human evolutionary history men and...
Show moreSocial psychological approaches to understanding intergroup bias often assume that the motivations underlying intergroup bias are the same for both men and women (e.g. Tajfel & Turner, 1979). An interdisciplinary perspective that integrates social psychological perspectives with evolutionary theory provides a framework for making predictions about instances in which the motivations for intergroup bias may differ between men and women. Over the course of human evolutionary history men and women have faced unique adaptive challenges in their interactions with outgroups, particularly with outgroup men. Many intergroup interactions occur during times of intergroup conflict. For men, these interactions are typically characterized by aggressive and competitive striving for access to resources, but women's interactions often take the form of sexual victimization at the hands of the invading group. These distinct adaptive challenges likely gave rise to different psychological mechanisms for processing and responding to information about members of different groups, particularly men of the outgroup. Given the importance of reproductive choice in female mating strategies, women may have evolved psychological mechanisms for avoiding outgroup men in the service of protecting reproductive choice. Previous research has documented preliminary evidence for such mechanisms, finding that women's bias against outgroup men increases when threats to reproductive choice would be most costly, such as when women are in the fertile window of their menstrual cycle, when they appraise themselves as particularly vulnerable to sexual coercion, and when they assess the outgroup as physically formidable or threatening. The present research builds on these findings by examining the influence of these mechanisms in an intergroup mating context. Specifically, the research examines gender differences in responses to unsolicited dating requests made by experimentally manipulated opposite-sex ingroup and outgroup members, with a particular emphasis on the unique motivations that underlie women's intergroup dating preferences. Results indicate that men are more willing to say yes to date requests overall, but neither men nor women show a strong ingroup dating preference. However, consistent with predictions, women that appraise themselves as being particularly vulnerable to sexual coercion and who are also in the fertile window of their menstrual cycle are less likely to say yes to date requests from outgroup members, but not ingroup members. This research builds on a growing body of literature providing evidence for a suite of psychological adaptations in women to protect reproductive choice.
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Title: The effects of solicitation of advice and want for advice on evaluation of advice : testing the mediating role of perceived face threat in the context of graduate students' adjustment
Creator: Paik, Jihyun
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The purpose of this research is to test (a) the effects of initial interaction of advice provision-characterized by solicitation of advice and want for advice-on the recipient's perception of positive and negative face threat and (b) the mediating role of perceived face threat between initial interaction type and the evaluation of advice helpfulness in the context of graduate students' adjustment. First-year graduate students in a large university were surveyed about their past advice...
Show moreThe purpose of this research is to test (a) the effects of initial interaction of advice provision-characterized by solicitation of advice and want for advice-on the recipient's perception of positive and negative face threat and (b) the mediating role of perceived face threat between initial interaction type and the evaluation of advice helpfulness in the context of graduate students' adjustment. First-year graduate students in a large university were surveyed about their past advice receiving experience (N = 128), which began with one of the three types of initial interaction: (a) when advice was wanted and solicited; (b) when advice was wanted but unsolicited; and (c) when advice was unwanted and unsolicited. The quantitative data results showed that the recipient felt significantly less positive face threat in the wanted but unsolicited interaction, and felt significantly greater negative face threat when advice was unwanted and unsolicited. Also, it was found that only perceived negative face threat served the mediating role between the type of initial interaction and the evaluation of advice helpfulness. The qualitative data suggested that graduate students do not like asking for advice from another person due to positive face threat-related concerns and that they tend to seek advice from an advice giver who seemed to feel less negative face threat upon their request. The importance of the distinction between psychological want for advice and discursive solicitation of advice and refining the measurement of face threat were highlighted in the discussion for future research.
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Title: The effects of media type and personal relationship on perceptions of social presence
Creator: Harms, Chad Martin
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Socialization and the compliance system : an attitudinal study of adolescents, their teachers, and police officers
Creator: Miller, Martin George, 1938-
Date: 1971
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Multivariate prediction of psychoactive drug use : a social-psychological approach
Creator: Battistich, Victor Anthony
Date: 1976
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The implications of social class for clothing behavior : the aquistion and use of apparel for girls seven, eight, and nine years of age in three social classes in Des Moines, Iowa
Creator: Warning, Margaret Cynthia, 1914-
Date: 1956
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Need for Affiliation Under Threat in the Context of Horror Video Games
Creator: Kim, Joshua
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Research suggests that people favor playing violent video games cooperatively with others. However, little is known about the reason behind people’s desire to play cooperatively. Previous research has demonstrated that perceived threat to the avatar can increase the need for affiliation (Velez et al., unpublished data). The current study replicates and extends previous research by using a horror game, Phasmophobia. 559 American adults above 18 who have previous experience with video games...
Show moreResearch suggests that people favor playing violent video games cooperatively with others. However, little is known about the reason behind people’s desire to play cooperatively. Previous research has demonstrated that perceived threat to the avatar can increase the need for affiliation (Velez et al., unpublished data). The current study replicates and extends previous research by using a horror game, Phasmophobia. 559 American adults above 18 who have previous experience with video games were assigned to watch one of the four video clips of horror game play, taking the role of an avatar. The current research tested the hypothesis that direct violence to the avatar will result in higher level of threat relative to the avatar being in a threatening situation. The results suggest that perceived threat to the avatar increased participants’ need for affiliation. Also, participants who experienced direct violence to the avatar reported more threat than those whose avatars were in a threatening situation. Additionally, participants who thought their avatar was playing in a group reported higher levels of needs for affiliation. Finally, higher levels of need for affiliation increased participants’ desire to play video games with others but it did not predict an increased desire to play alone.
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Title: A mixed-method study of friendship networks and psychological and sociocultural adaptation among chinese international undergraduates in u.s. higher education
Creator: Xie, Mingjun
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: In recent years, U.S. colleges and universities have observed a rapid expansion of the enrollment of international students. Particularly Chinese students, the largest group of international students since 2010, have increased nearly threefold in just eight years (Institute of International Education, 2010-2018). Prior studies have investigated the friendship networks of international students (Rose-Redwood & Rose-Redwood, 2013) and the influence of peer relations on international students'...
Show moreIn recent years, U.S. colleges and universities have observed a rapid expansion of the enrollment of international students. Particularly Chinese students, the largest group of international students since 2010, have increased nearly threefold in just eight years (Institute of International Education, 2010-2018). Prior studies have investigated the friendship networks of international students (Rose-Redwood & Rose-Redwood, 2013) and the influence of peer relations on international students' cross-cultural adaptation (Hendrickson, Rosen, & Aune, 2011). However, the extant literature has largely neglected to examine international students' lived experiences of establishing friendship networks and the underlying mechanism of the associations between friendships and international student adaptation. Guided by social capital theory (Lin, 1999) and acculturation process framework (Ward, Bochner, & Furnham, 2001), the purpose of my dissertation is to examine Chinese students' peer interaction patterns and how friendships influence their psychological well-being and sociocultural adjustment.My dissertation consists of two studies. The first study drew upon two waves of surveys collected with 46 Chinese students (30 females, Mage = 18.89, SD = .80) and multiple in-depth interviews conducted with five students (three females, Mage = 18.40, SD = .89). The results yield three main findings. First, Chinese students of the present study nominated predominant Chinese friends, much more than domestic and other international student friends, in both waves. Second, Chinese students did not necessarily develop more diverse, integrated friendship networks over time. Specifically, more than half of the participants nominated Chinese friends only in both waves, possibly because of language barriers and prior discrimination experiences. Lastly, the interview findings illustrated that Chinese students' engagement in college settings shaped their experiences of building friendship networks, such that greater engagement in meaningful common experiences (such as club activities, religious groups, and experiences of working together) could facilitate cross-cultural interaction between Chinese students and domestic students.Guided by social capital theory (Lin, 1999) and acculturation process framework (Ward, Bochner, & Furnham, 2001), the second study examined: (1) how friendship networks, specifically the national backgrounds of nominated friends, the frequency of contact, and the intimacy of friendships, are associated with psychological and sociocultural adaptation among Chinese undergraduates (N = 273, Mage = 19.18, SD = .84) in U.S. higher education; and (2) the role of social connectedness as a mediator. Results indicated that compared to superficial relationships, high-quality peer interaction (for example, friendships involving both frequent contact and intimacy) might be a key to bolster Chinese students' ability to navigate cross-cultural challenges. Further, social connectedness mediated the associations between friendships and student adaptation, such that frequent and intimate interaction with domestic students was associated with greater social connectedness and, in turn, better psychological and sociocultural adaptation. The findings point to practical implications for the host institutions, especially for universities enrolling large numbers of international students. It is important for the host institutions to develop corresponding programs to facilitate social opportunities for different groups to mingle and establish sustained friendships.
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Title: BLAME JUDGEMENTS FOR PAST ACTIONS OF GROUPS
Creator: Vallabha, Shree
Date: 2022
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Historically, groups have committed innumerable atrocities, including genocide and slavery. I tested if people blame current groups for the actions of their past members and what underlies this blame. Current models of blame overlook the dimension of time and therefore have difficulty explaining this phenomenon. I hypothesized that perceiving higher (a) connectedness between past and present perpetrator groups, (b) unfulfilled obligations of perpetrator groups, (c) continued privilege of...
Show moreHistorically, groups have committed innumerable atrocities, including genocide and slavery. I tested if people blame current groups for the actions of their past members and what underlies this blame. Current models of blame overlook the dimension of time and therefore have difficulty explaining this phenomenon. I hypothesized that perceiving higher (a) connectedness between past and present perpetrator groups, (b) unfulfilled obligations of perpetrator groups, (c) continued privilege of perpetrator groups, and (d) continued harm of victim groups would facilitate higher blame judgements against current groups for the past. In a survey (N=518) using real events, I find results consistent with all the four hypotheses and some preliminary evidence for group differences in these relationships. I find that factors that link the present group to the past explain why groups are blamed for their past actions. These findings bring to light the deficiencies in existing theories of blame – calling into question its assumptions and incomplete criterion of judgement.
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Title: Drifts in locus of control as a function of cross-cultural experiences
Creator: Thomas, Hilton Tellis
Date: 1975
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: COMMUNITY-ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS : A MIXED METHODS EXPLORATION OF COLLABORATION, NETWORK STRUCTURE, AND OUTCOMES FOR HEALTH EQUITY
Creator: Bustos, Tatiana Elisa
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Community-based organizations (CBOs) play a critical role in improving conditions within marginalized communities for health equity. However, stronger organizational capacity within CBOs is needed to develop sustainable public health equity efforts. One strategy that can support sustainable health equity efforts from CBOs in marginalized communities is the use of community-academic partnerships (CAPs)—partnerships extending beyond academic boundaries to translational research in real-world...
Show moreCommunity-based organizations (CBOs) play a critical role in improving conditions within marginalized communities for health equity. However, stronger organizational capacity within CBOs is needed to develop sustainable public health equity efforts. One strategy that can support sustainable health equity efforts from CBOs in marginalized communities is the use of community-academic partnerships (CAPs)—partnerships extending beyond academic boundaries to translational research in real-world settings. This dissertation project examines the CAP structure of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions (FCHES), which is a collaborative, transdisciplinary research center focused on improving public health equity for Flint, Michigan. Using a longitudinal, sequential mixed methods design, the study sought to examine facilitating and hindering factors to CAP collaborations, elicit partner perspectives about and experiences with the collaboration, and compare changes in the overall network structure over time (1 year apart). While unintended, the study had the unique opportunity to also explore how a fluctuating environment related to the COVID-19 pandemic influenced partnerships (e.g., ties) and network outcomes over time. Exploratory social network analysis (SNA) examined the overall network structure, partner connectivity embedded in the network, position of partners, and quality of relationships. Semi-structured interviews were used to expand on the quantitative data and contextualize responses, including obtaining rich details on: (a) perspectives on the collaboration process; (b) barriers and facilitators; (c) motivations for joining and for continuing to participate; (d) goals; and (e) recommendations for improvement from the perspectives of partners and leaders. Understanding community and academic partner’s perspectives on collaboration efforts and dynamics of their relationships is important to move health equity forward. The current dissertation project contributes to the literature on CAP perspectives by identifying facilitating and hindering factors to CAPs as well as examining how these change over time; identifying network outcomes, their changes over time, and how they vary by partner type, and motivational factors to participate and continue to participate with the CAP over time. The broader impact of this research builds on systems-level, ecological perspectives grounded in community psychology, emphasizing how networks of CAPs in public health within larger systems of historically marginalized communities can work collaboratively to better understand and resolve health disparities. A closer examination of motivating factors, as well as strengths and challenges that lead to collaboration outcomes can help develop strategies to strengthen partnership dynamics. Further, the study examined changes across two different time-points, allowing for a closer examination on how external influences from fluctuating environments (e.g., community contexts; COVID-19) may change a partnership over time. Results will be useful for stakeholders involved in CAPs interested in developing and improving collaborative approaches to public health that center community-based priorities. Findings ultimately highlight how community-based efforts are dynamic processes, intertwined with contexts related to community, resources, interpersonal connections, power, and equity.
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