Thursday, April 26, 2012
Congrats to Juliann Cortese, OSU Alum!
Congratulations to OSU Alum. Juliann Cortese, who won the poster award at the recent Kentucky Health Communication Conference. Juliann and her coauthor, Mia Lustria, are on the faculty at Florida State University. Their research was: "A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Interactive Tailored Video Intervention for STD Awareness."
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Tentative Spring Quarter Schedule
March 30: Prospective Graduate Student Visitation Day: No IPCRG meeting
April 6: No IPCRG meeting
April 13: Quarter-to-semester conversation meetings: No IPCRG meeting
April 20: Kentucky Conference on Health Communication in Lexington: No meeting
(See http://comm.uky.edu/kchc/ to register!)
April 27: Margaret Rooney
May 4: ICA practice presentations (Elizabeth Jones, Uttara Manohar)
May 11: ICA practice presentations (Katey Price, Angela/Kathryn)
May 18: Comm Day: No IPCRG meeting
May 25: International Communication Association Conference in Phoenix: No meeting
(See http://www.icahdq.org/ to register!)
June 1: Phokeng Dailey
* Email Dr. Krieger if you would like to sign up for a practice presentation time slot.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
CFP-Midwest Popular Culture Association
The Midwest Popular Culture Association conference is being held in Columbus, OH this year. The MPCA is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association. The association asks for papers that deal with any number of popular culture topics (mpcaaca.org). The conference this year is being held Oct 12-14.
Deadline for submission (submissions.mpcaaca.org) is Apr 30.
It's a small conference -- usually between 300-400 people -- and is a mix of faculty and graduate students. There are also undergraduate paper areas, and an undergrad paper competition.
For a complete list of areas, please see http://mpcaaca.org/conference/area-chairs/.
Deadline for submission (submissions.mpcaaca.org) is Apr 30.
It's a small conference -- usually between 300-400 people -- and is a mix of faculty and graduate students. There are also undergraduate paper areas, and an undergrad paper competition.
For a complete list of areas, please see http://mpcaaca.org/conference/area-chairs/.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Tentative Winter Quarter Schedule
Greetings! Below is the tentative meeting schedule for Winter quarter. All meetings will be held from 12:30-1:30 in 3116 Derby Hall unless otherwise noted.
It has been widely asserted that low self-esteem causes violence, but laboratory evidence is lacking, and some contrary observations have characterized aggressors as narcissistic individuals having inflated, grandiose self-views (e.g., Hitler probably did not have low self-esteem). In experimental studies involving college students, we measured both simple self-esteem and narcissism and then gave individual subjects an opportunity to aggress against someone who had insulted them or praised them, or against an innocent third person. Self-esteem proved irrelevant to aggression. The combination of narcissism and insult led to exceptionally high levels of aggression toward the source of the insult. Neither form of self-regard affected displaced aggression, which was low in general. Similar results were found in a recent experiment involving 10-13 year old children. In a meta-analysis, we compare self-esteem and narcissism scores for violent male prisoners who had murdered, assaulted, raped, or robbed someone, and nonviolent males the same age. Violent prisoners had much higher narcissism scores than the nonviolent men did, but self-esteem scores were similar for the two groups. These findings contradict the popular view that low self-esteem causes aggression and point instead toward threatened egotism as an important cause. Unfortunately, narcissism scores are increasing over time (at least in American college students). Fortunately, experiments show that narcissistic aggression can be reduced by increasing the psychological overlap between the narcissist and the victim. Narcissists love themselves, and if someone else is like them, they are reluctant to aggress against that person. A 1-week longitudinal study also shows that make self-esteem more stable and secure can reduce narcissistic aggression.
2/10: Angela Palmer-Wackerly: Dancing around Infertility: The Use of Metaphors in a Complex Medical Situation
1/13: Dave Ewoldsen: Cooperative Competitive Game Play: A Research Agenda
1/20: Journal club: Schrodt, P., Witt, P. L., & Messersmith, A. S. (2008). A Meta-analytic review of family communication patterns and their associations with information processing, behavioral, and psychosocial outcomes. Communication Monographs, 75, 248-269.
1/27: Brad Bushman: Does Self-Love or Self-Hate Lead to Violence?
It has been widely asserted that low self-esteem causes violence, but laboratory evidence is lacking, and some contrary observations have characterized aggressors as narcissistic individuals having inflated, grandiose self-views (e.g., Hitler probably did not have low self-esteem). In experimental studies involving college students, we measured both simple self-esteem and narcissism and then gave individual subjects an opportunity to aggress against someone who had insulted them or praised them, or against an innocent third person. Self-esteem proved irrelevant to aggression. The combination of narcissism and insult led to exceptionally high levels of aggression toward the source of the insult. Neither form of self-regard affected displaced aggression, which was low in general. Similar results were found in a recent experiment involving 10-13 year old children. In a meta-analysis, we compare self-esteem and narcissism scores for violent male prisoners who had murdered, assaulted, raped, or robbed someone, and nonviolent males the same age. Violent prisoners had much higher narcissism scores than the nonviolent men did, but self-esteem scores were similar for the two groups. These findings contradict the popular view that low self-esteem causes aggression and point instead toward threatened egotism as an important cause. Unfortunately, narcissism scores are increasing over time (at least in American college students). Fortunately, experiments show that narcissistic aggression can be reduced by increasing the psychological overlap between the narcissist and the victim. Narcissists love themselves, and if someone else is like them, they are reluctant to aggress against that person. A 1-week longitudinal study also shows that make self-esteem more stable and secure can reduce narcissistic aggression.
2/3: CJ Lee: The Role of Social Capital in Public Health Communication Campaigns: The Case of the Anti-Drug Media Campaign
Using a two-round longitudinal panel dataset from the National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY), I examined the roles of antidrug-related community activities at both individual and aggregate levels in the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. I found a main effect of parent's antidrug-specific community activities on targeted parent-child communication about drugs. More interestingly, parents who did not actively participate in antidrug-related community activities were more likely to talk about drugs with their offspring after being exposed to the antidrug campaign ads than were their counterparts. In contrast, there was little evidence for a contextual effect of aggregate-level antidrug-specific community activities on targeted parent-child communication or for its cross-level interaction with campaign exposure. I will discuss the implications of these findings for communication research and public health intervention efforts.
2/10: Angela Palmer-Wackerly: Dancing around Infertility: The Use of Metaphors in a Complex Medical Situation
2/17: Katey Price: Identifying Uncertainty: Changing Roles for Dementia Family Caregivers and Ambiguous Identity
2/24: Susan Kline
3/2: Comm 820 students
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