Selected Publications on Communication & Culture

                       Selected Publications focusing on Communication and Culture                                                      

Bresnahan, M. J., Zhuang, J., & Park, S. (2015 in press). Cultural Perceptions of the Health and Cuteness of Fat Babies. International Journal of Communication & Health.

Bresnahan, M. J., & Zhuang, J. (2014).  Special Guest Editor Special Issue on Health Communication in China. The Urgency and Necessity for Health Communication Research in China. Chinese Journal of Communication, 7, 1-8.

Bresnahan, M. J., Zhuang, J., & Sun, S. (2013). Influence of smoking norms and         gain-loss antismoking messages on young Chinese adults.  Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2,doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntt015

Zhuang, J., & Bresnahan, M.J.  (2012). HIV/AIDS stigmatization on Chinese Internet discussion forums: A content analysis approach to HIV/AIDS stigma.  Chinese Journal of Communication, 5, 227-242.

Bresnahan, M., & Lee, C.  (2011). Activating Stereotypes:  Reactions to dividing participants by race on Survivor: Cook Islands.  The Howard Journal of Communications, 22, 64-82. doi:10.1080/10646175.2011.546746

Bresnahan, M.J., Guan, X. W., Smith, S.W., Wang, X., & Edmondson, J.  (2010). The cultures of the soul: The effects of spiritual beliefs on organ donation in China and the U.S.  Chinese Journal of Communication, 3, 133-146.

Bresnahan, M. J., Guan, X. W., & Wang, X.  (2009). The Culture of the Body:  Attitudes toward Organ Donation in China and the U.S. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1, 181-195.

Bresnahan, M.I., & Flowers, K.  (2008).  The role of sport involvement in attitude toward Native American sport mascots.  Howard Journal of Communications, 19, 165-181.

Bresnahan, M. J., Kagawa, N., Song, J. A., & Inoue, Y.  (2006).  Players and whiners: Responses to the depiction of gender In Japanese anime. Asian Journal of Communication, 16, 2, 207-217.

Bresnahan, M. J., Levine, T. R., Shearman, S. M., Lee, S. Y., Park, C. Y., & Nebashi, R.  (2005).  Multi-trait-multi-method self-construal validity assessment In Korea, Japan, and the U. S.  Human Communication Research, 31. 33-59.

Bresnahan, M. J., Ohashi, R., Morinaga, S., Yang, L., & Mosher, D.  (2002). Cultural Differences in Responding to Criticism:  Evidence from the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the U.S. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 93-105. 

Bresnahan, M. J., Ohashi, R., Nebashi, R., Liu, W.Y., & Shearman, S. M.  (2001).  Attitudinal and affective response toward accented English. Language and Communication, 12, 1-15

Bresnahan, M. J, Inoue, Y., Liu, W. Y., & Nishida, T.  (2001). Changing gender roles in prime time  television commercials in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and the US.  Sex Roles, 12,  117-131.

Bresnahan, M. J., Ohashi, R., Nebashi, R., Liu, W.Y., & Liao, C.C. (2001). Assertiveness as a predictor of compliance and resistance in Taiwan, Japan, and the U.S.   Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 11, 135-159.

Bresnahan, M.I., Cai, D. H., & Rivers, A.  (1994). Saying 'no' in Chinese and English.  Asian Journal of Communication, 4, 52-76.