Saturday, March 28, 2015
Monday, March 23, 2015
Stupid things that academics say
Reason for rejection
Reviewer summarizes:"The paper is premised on the observation that vegans are stigmatized, then goes on to say that to this point, no study of vegan stigma has been based on experimental manipulation of persuasive messages. This study aims to fill that gap."
Reviewer comments: I can see how that gap might loom large if the authors are vegan, but to the readers of CM it might seem a bit narrow, perhaps even superficial. People are stigmatized for being blond, for being bald, and for being from New York. But, none of these topics seem quite as important as the stigmatization that accompanies HIV, mental illness, or old age."
So------only vegans can write about vegan stigma which according to the reviewer is of no consequence and only people with HIV can write about HIV stigma if the logic holds. HMMMM!
Looking for a picture of me eating a juicy cheeseburger! Never mind, Wimpy will do!
Reviewer summarizes:"The paper is premised on the observation that vegans are stigmatized, then goes on to say that to this point, no study of vegan stigma has been based on experimental manipulation of persuasive messages. This study aims to fill that gap."
Reviewer comments: I can see how that gap might loom large if the authors are vegan, but to the readers of CM it might seem a bit narrow, perhaps even superficial. People are stigmatized for being blond, for being bald, and for being from New York. But, none of these topics seem quite as important as the stigmatization that accompanies HIV, mental illness, or old age."
So------only vegans can write about vegan stigma which according to the reviewer is of no consequence and only people with HIV can write about HIV stigma if the logic holds. HMMMM!
Sunday, March 22, 2015
More Ndotto who is thriving!
Little Ndotto and his best friend Lasayen who is also a baby from the nursery.
Lasayen's story
On the 25th of September a tiny calf was retrieved from a well on the Namunyak conservancy in Samburu by the community rangers. He had obviously fallen down this community dug well meant specifically for livestock but so often frequented by the thirsty elephant herds under the cover of darkness in the dry season months. Little elephant calves at this time become increasingly vulnerable and slip in. Because of the human presence the elephant herds disappear at daybreak to avoid human wildlife conflict and in this case are faced with the simply heartbreaking decision of walking away from their forsaken calf.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
More on little Ndotto His name means to dream!
"We called the new arrival Ndotto, after the Ndoto Mountains,
which in Swahili means to dream. As a newborn Ndotto’s journey was
challenging and fraught from the beginning, and it took three and a half months
before he began to teeth confirming that he was certainly born premature by a
couple of months. It is for this reason that we have delayed placing
Ndotto onto the fostering program, frightened to jinx the miracle. He is
through his teething with four molars out, remains tinier than any of the new
born babies coming into our care despite being five months old now, yet he has
a huge personality."
Welcome, Ndotto! Now Ndotto Bresnahan
This
is Ndotto an orphaned elephant sponsored by the Bresnahan family
through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. He was found last August at
2 days old wandering with a herd of goats and sheep--poor baby! Become a sponsor through the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust adoption program. With poaching and human interference, many elephant babies are abandoned. The Trust does magnificent work and needs your help :)
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
guilt and smoking
Psychology, Health & Medicine
Publication details, including instructions for authors and
subscription information:
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cphm20
Roles of guilt and culture in normative influence: testing moderated mediation in the anti-secondhand smoking
context
Hyegyu Leea & Hye-Jin Paek
This study simultaneously explored direct, indirect, and joint effects of types of
norm messages, guilt, and culture on smokers’ behavioral intentions in the antisecondhand
smoking context. An online study among 310 smoking students in an
individualistic (United States) and a collectivistic (Korea) country indicated that (1)
norm messages had no conditional indirect effects on behavioral intention, (2) guilt
arousal had a strong and direct impact on behavioral intention, and (3) guilt arousal
and its impact on behavioral intention were stronger among Korean smokers than
among US smokers.
Keywords: antismoking ad; culture; guilt; secondhand smoke; social norms
Publication details, including instructions for authors and
subscription information:
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cphm20
Roles of guilt and culture in normative influence: testing moderated mediation in the anti-secondhand smoking
context
Hyegyu Leea & Hye-Jin Paek
This study simultaneously explored direct, indirect, and joint effects of types of
norm messages, guilt, and culture on smokers’ behavioral intentions in the antisecondhand
smoking context. An online study among 310 smoking students in an
individualistic (United States) and a collectivistic (Korea) country indicated that (1)
norm messages had no conditional indirect effects on behavioral intention, (2) guilt
arousal had a strong and direct impact on behavioral intention, and (3) guilt arousal
and its impact on behavioral intention were stronger among Korean smokers than
among US smokers.
Keywords: antismoking ad; culture; guilt; secondhand smoke; social norms
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Consider contributing to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp
Sponsor an orphaned baby elephant for $50 a year
This is Suswa.
Sponsor an orphaned baby elephant for $50 a year
This is Suswa.
Welcome Prabu David
Welcome to Prabu David, new Dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at MSU!
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Information Manipulation Theory 2
McCornack, S. A.,
Morrison, K., Paik, J. E., Wisner, A. M., & Zhu, X. (2014).
Information Manipulation Theory 2 A Propositional Theory of Deceptive
Discourse Production. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 33(4), 348-377.
Information Manipulation Theory 2
A Propositional Theory of Deceptive Discourse Production
- 1Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
- 2University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
- 3Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Steven A. McCornack, Department of Communication, Michigan State University, 467 CAS, 404 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Email: mccornac@msu.edu
Abstract
Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2)
is a propositional theory of deceptive discourse production that
conceptually frames
deception as involving the covert manipulation of
information along multiple dimensions and as a contextual
problem-solving
activity driven by the desire for quick, efficient,
and viable communicative solutions. IMT2 is rooted in linguistics,
cognitive
neuroscience, speech production, and artificial
intelligence. Synthesizing these literatures, IMT2 posits a central
premise
with regard to deceptive discourse production and
11 empirically testable (that is, falsifiable) propositions deriving
from
this premise. These propositions are grouped into
three propositional sets: intentional states (IS), cognitive load (CL),
and information manipulation (IM). The IS
propositions pertain to the nature and temporal placement of deceptive
volition,
in relation to speech production. The CL
propositions clarify the interrelationship between load, discourse, and
context.
The IM propositions identify the specific
conditions under which various forms of information manipulation will
(and will
not) occur.
Remembering Joshua Fishman
In 1978, I attended a Summer Sociolinguistics Institute at Champaign-Urbana and Professor Fishman was my teacher.
Joshua A. Fishman (1926-2015)
A beloved teacher and influential scholar, Joshua A. Fishman passed away peacefully in his Bronx home, on Monday evening,
March 1, 2015. He was 88 years old. Joshua A. Fishman leaves behind
his devoted wife of over 60 years, Gella Schweid Fishman, three sons and
daughters-in-law, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. But
he also leaves behind thousands of students throughout the world who
have learned much from him about sociology of language, the field he
founded, and also about the possibility of being a generous and
committed scholar to language minority communities. As he once said, his
life was his work and his work was his life.
Joshua
A. Fishman, nicknamed Shikl, was born in Philadelphia PA on July 18,
1926. Yiddish was the language of his childhood home, and his father
regularly asked his sister, Rukhl, and him: ?What did you do for Yiddish
today?? The struggle for Yiddish in Jewish life was the impetus for his
scholarly work. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania
with a Masters degree in 1947, he collaborated with his good friend, Max
Weinreich, the doyen of Yiddish linguistics, on a translation of
Weinreich?s history of Yiddish. And it was through Yiddish that he came
to another one of his interests ??that of bilingualism. In 1948 he
received a prize from the YIVO Institute for Yiddish Research for a
monograph on bilingualism. Yiddish and bilingualism were interests he
developed throughout his scholarly life.
After
earning a PhD in social psychology from Columbia University in 1953,
Joshua Fishman worked as a researcher for the College Entrance
Examination Board. This experience focused his interest on educational
pursuits, which eventually led to another strand of his scholarly work
?? that on bilingual education. It was around this time that he taught
what came to be the first sociology of language course at The City
College of New York. In 1958, he was appointed associate professor of
human relations and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and
two years later, moved to Yeshiva University. At Yeshiva University he
was professor of psychology and sociology, Dean of the Ferkauf Graduate
School of Social Science and Humanities, Academic Vice President, and
Distinguished University Research Professor of Social sciences. In 1988,
he became Professor Emeritus and began to divide the year between New
York and California where he became visiting professor of education and
linguistics at Stanford University. In the course of his career, Fishman
held visiting appointments at over a dozen universities in the USA,
Israel, and the Philippines, and fellowships at the Center for Advanced
study (Stanford), the East West Center (Hawai?i) the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced
Study, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Study.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Similarity Attraction Hypothesis-Remembering Donn Byrne
During his more than 4-decade academic career at the University of
Texas (1959–1969), Purdue University (1969–1979), and the University at
Albany–SUNY (1979–2001), Donn chaired the doctoral committees of 53
students. Back in the early 1970s, I was his 21st student. He advised me
to “make only one difference between two experiments of an article.”
While writing my doctoral dissertation, he told me, “Write it in less
than 30 pages.” When I was leaving Purdue, Donn further advised, “Never
put your name in print unless you have read the document twice;” “Do not
write an article that can allow others to say that you are a sloppy
researcher;” and “If someone questions your work, do give a fitting
reply.” To this day, I have tried to follow all three maxims.
Donn wanted his mentees not only to get a job but also to contribute responsibly to the organization where they worked and to the country in which they lived. He wanted me to start my career at a research-intensive institution in India. Therefore, in 1972, a year before I received my degree, he contacted Kamta Prasad, who at that time was head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and recommended that he hire me as an assistant professor. That I was offered the job without any interview suggests how supportive Donn was of my appointment!
Of his numerous scholarly contributions to social psychology, personality, and human sexuality, Donn is perhaps most renowned for his classic similarity–attraction research. People had long suggested that “birds of a feather flock together,” but it was Donn who translated this adage into a testable hypothesis: The greater the similarity between the attitudes of two persons, he demonstrated, the greater the attraction between them. He was so attached to this “Law of Attraction” (Y = 5.44X + 6.62, where Y is attraction on a scale of 2 to 14, X is the proportion of similar attitudes, and 5.44 and 6.62 are empirical coefficients for the respective slope and intercept of the regression line) that he always queried me as to how well his equation fit each new set of data my students or I collected!
Byrne died on August 10. 2014
Donn wanted his mentees not only to get a job but also to contribute responsibly to the organization where they worked and to the country in which they lived. He wanted me to start my career at a research-intensive institution in India. Therefore, in 1972, a year before I received my degree, he contacted Kamta Prasad, who at that time was head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and recommended that he hire me as an assistant professor. That I was offered the job without any interview suggests how supportive Donn was of my appointment!
Of his numerous scholarly contributions to social psychology, personality, and human sexuality, Donn is perhaps most renowned for his classic similarity–attraction research. People had long suggested that “birds of a feather flock together,” but it was Donn who translated this adage into a testable hypothesis: The greater the similarity between the attitudes of two persons, he demonstrated, the greater the attraction between them. He was so attached to this “Law of Attraction” (Y = 5.44X + 6.62, where Y is attraction on a scale of 2 to 14, X is the proportion of similar attitudes, and 5.44 and 6.62 are empirical coefficients for the respective slope and intercept of the regression line) that he always queried me as to how well his equation fit each new set of data my students or I collected!
Byrne died on August 10. 2014
New publication on texting while driving of interest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE FROM MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC., PUBLISHERS |
Contact: Kathryn Ryan
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (914) 740-2100 kryan@liebertpub.com |
What Factors Motivate People to Text While Driving?
New Rochelle, NY, February 23, 2015—Nearly
a third of adult drivers text while driving, despite the increased
risk of accidents, stricter laws against it, and many awareness-raising
efforts. What motivates this behavior and why it is so difficult to
discourage is explored in the timely article “Hand on the Wheel, Mind on the Mobile: An Analysis of Social Factors Contributing to Texting while Driving,” published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website until March 23, 2015.
Steven Seiler,
Tennessee Tech University (Cookeville) examines the social factors that
lead people to text while driving. He suggests that people tend to
engage in “mobile multiplexing”—texting, talking, and using the
Internet—while driving, which presents a variety of distractions.
Texting while driving is a learned behavior, reinforced by seeing
others do it, and although laws prohibit it and it impairs driver
safety, “texting while driving has become a cultural artifact in the
U.S.” People who disregard cultural norms in general are more likely to
text while driving.
“Leading
the industry in 2000, Verizon Wireless was the first wireless carrier
to support state legislation that prohibited mobile phone use while
driving” says Editor-in-Chief Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Interactive
Media Institute, San Diego, California and Virtual Reality Medical
Institute, Brussels, Belgium. “Other carriers have now followed suit,
hoping their public awareness campaigns will help promote positive
behavioral change.”
Friday, February 20, 2015
cyberbullying in college
PRESS RELEASE FROM MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC., PUBLISHERS |
Contact: Kathryn Ryan
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (914) 740-2100 kryan@liebertpub.com |
Cyberbullying Linked to 6-Fold Increase in Depression among Female College Students
New Rochelle, NY, February 19, 2015—More
than 1 in 4 females have experienced cyberbullying in college,
increasing their risk for depression. Female college students who acted
as cyberbullies were also more likely to report problem alcohol use,
according to a new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website until March 19, 2015.
In the article “Cyberbullying, Depression, and Problem Alcohol Use in Female College Students: A Multisite Study,” authors Ellen Selkie, MD, MPH and Ya-Fen Chan, PhD University of Washington, Seattle, Rajitha Kota, MPH, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Megan Morena, MD, MSEd, MPH,
Seattle Children’s Research Institute, explored the relationship
between involvement in cyberbullying—as either the person doing the
bullying or being bullied—and depression or problem alcohol use.
“When
counseling college students, inquiring about cyberbullying during
intake assessments may help clinicians uncover stressors to be targeted
during treatment,” says Editor-in-Chief Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, California and Virtual Reality Medical Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Way to go, Jenn!
The
Department of Communication Studies and Theatre congratulates faculty
member Dr. Jenn Anderson who received the Dr. Sherwood and Elizabeth
Berg Young Faculty Award. The award was presented at the annual
Celebration of Faculty Excellence. Dr. Anderson conducts community-based
health communication research. She has received grant support from the
Bush Foundation, the Rural Health Research Center,
and from the SDSU Women and Giving Program. She has published 11
peer-reviewed articles, one book, a book chapter, and has numerous
forthcoming publications. In addition, she has presented 30 papers,
panels, and posters at regional and national academic conferences.
Weaving her research and teaching together, Dr. Anderson developed the
new health communication minor at SDSU.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
Body Appearance Scale reference
Development
and validation of the Body and Appearance Self-Conscious Emotions Scale(BASES)
Andrée
L.Castonguaya,b,
CatherineM.Sabistonc,∗,
PeterR.E.Crockerd, DianeE.Macke
Body Image
11 (2014) 126–136
A b s t r a c t
The
purposeofthesestudieswastodevelopapsychometricallysoundmeasureofshame, guilt, authentic
pride, andhubristicprideforuseinbodyandappearancecontexts.InStudy1,41 potential
items were developed andassessedforitemqualityandcomprehension.InStudy2,apanelofexperts(N=8;M=
11, SD =
6.5yearsofexperience)reviewedthescaleanditemsforevidenceofcontentvalidity.Participantsin
Study 3(n = 135males, n = 300females)completed the BASES and various body image,
personality, and emotion scales. A separate sample (n = 155; 35.5%male) in Study3
completed the BASES twice using a two-week
timeinterval.TheBASESsubscalescoresdemonstratedevidenceforinternalconsistency,item-
total
correlations,concurrent,convergent,incremental,anddiscriminantvalidity,and2-weektest–retest
reliability. The4-factorsolutionwasagoodfitinconfirmatoryfactoranalysis, reflecting
body-related shame, guilt, authentic and hubristic pride subscales of the BASES.
The development and validation of the BASES may help advance body image and self-conscious
emotion research by providing a foundation to
examinetheuniqueantecedentsandoutcomesofthesespecificemotionalexperiences.
Shame
Bad about myself when I think about my appearance
Ashamed of the way I look
Inadequate when Ithinkaboutmyappearance
Ashamed of myappearance
Inadequate about mylooks
Ashamed that I amapersonwhoisunattractive
Guilt
Guilty that Idonotdoenoughformyappearance
Guilty
thatIdonotdoenoughtoimprovethewayIlook
Guilty thatIlookthewayIdo
Guilty
whenIseethewayIlookinthemirror
Regret
thatIdonotworkonimprovingmyappearance
Regret
thatIdonotputeffortintomyappearance
Authentic pride
Proud thatImaintainmydesiredappearance
Proud
oftheeffortIplaceonmaintainingmyappearance
Proud ofmyappearanceaccomplishments
Proud
aboutmyefforttoimprovethewayIlook
Proud thatIhaveachievedmyappearancegoals
Proud ofmyappearanceefforts
Hubristic pride
Proud thatIammoreattractivethanothers
Proud ofmygreatlooks
Proud thatIamagreatlookingperson
Proud ofmysuperiorappearance
Proud thatIamanattractiveperson
Proud
ofmyselfwhenIcomparemyappearancetoothers
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