Pub Date : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2100268
John Banister
ABSTRACT The Roberts Court has issued several important voting rights decisions in the past decade that have enabled voting restrictions at the state and local level. This essay examines two of them, Shelby County v. Holder (2013) and Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute (2018). By juxtaposing the reasoning patterns of the majority opinions in Shelby County and Husted, I explore how the majorities in both cases utilized the flexibility of judicial doctrines as sites of invention. Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion in Shelby County combined arguments from circumstance with appeals to stare decisis, whereas Justice Alito’s opinion in Husted relied on a textualist argument. Comparing these approaches illustrates how jurists can flexibly apply judicial philosophies as inventional tools to achieve a desired result in high profile cases. This essay reveals how an understanding of the Supreme Court’s argument invention practices can complement attitudinal and strategic theories of judicial decision-making.
摘要在过去的十年里，罗伯茨法院发布了几项重要的投票权裁决，在州和地方层面实施了投票限制。本文考察了其中两起案件，Shelby County v.Holder（2013）和Husted v.A.Philip Randolph Institute（2018）。通过并置Shelby County和Husted的多数意见的推理模式，我探讨了在这两个案件中，多数意见如何利用司法学说的灵活性作为发明的场所。首席大法官罗伯茨在谢尔比县的意见结合了来自环境的论点和对凝视判决的上诉，而大法官阿利托在Husted的意见则依赖于文本主义的论点。比较这些方法说明了法学家如何灵活地将司法哲学作为发明工具，在引人注目的案件中达到预期的结果。本文揭示了对最高法院论点发明实践的理解如何补充司法决策的态度和战略理论。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2090265
Rebecca M. Chory, K. Zhaleh, Masoomeh Estaji
ABSTRACT The present study explored Iranian students’ perceptions of unfair instructor behavior in COVID-19 crisis-prompted online language education. Through an online open-ended questionnaire, 91 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students reported their beliefs and experiences concerning instructor injustice in online classes. Results indicated that about two-thirds of the students considered the nature of online courses, particularly their impact on student-instructor relational communication and favoritism, to be a factor leading to teacher unjust behavior. They also identified technological factors, including students’ online communication anxiety, as barriers. Consistent with research in face-to-face courses, students most frequently reported experiencing instructor procedural injustice, which mostly violated the bias suppression principle, followed by distributive injustice, which primarily violated equity and equality principles, then interactional injustice, which mainly violated the sufficiency/justification principle, suggesting informational justice may be especially important in online courses. Implications for theoretical development of communication and fairness are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2095217
L. Kelly, R. Duran, Aimee E. Miller-Ott
ABSTRACT The goals of the two studies were to identify common communicative responses to co-present mobile phone usage and conversational partners’ reactions to that communication, and to determine whether individuals perceive their communicative responses as effective. Study 1 identified common participant responses and partner (i.e., phone user) reactions to those responses. In Study 2, researchers coded data from a new sample for these same responses and reactions and measured participants’ perceived effectiveness and likelihood to use the same responses again. The most frequent responses were demanding/requesting to stop, asking partner about their phone use, and using humor/sarcasm. Stopping, apologizing and stopping, justifying the use, and continuing to use the phone were the most common partner reactions. Directness of communicative responses was unrelated to reaction valence. Most conversational partner reactions were positive, but when negative, participants rated direct responses as significantly less effective than indirect responses.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2095216
F. J. Jennings, Kelsey Wexler, Gabrielle Willingham, K. Kenski
ABSTRACT The gender political knowledge gap has proven to be persistent and pervasive. It extends across time, geography, and cultures. When it comes to national politics, women demonstrate lower political knowledge than men, and this has a detrimental effect on a deliberative democracy. The current study employed an elaborative and political socialization theoretical perspective in addressing the gender political knowledge gap. Through an experimental design and structural equation modeling, antecedents and outcomes of political learning for women were investigated. Three conditions were created through exposure to articles before watching a televised presidential debate. Women were either given a motivation prime, which explained how a political issue related specifically to women; an ability prime that provided background information on an issue; or a nonpolitical prime. Both the motivation and ability (through increased elaboration) enhanced learning. The enhanced learning predicted increased intentions to discuss the issue and seek additional issue-relevant information.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-30DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2079994
Xiaoti Fan, Darrin J. Griffin, Elizabeth P. Tagg
ABSTRACT The central premise of truth-default theory (TDT) posits that listeners are truth-biased in communication exchanges. Levine’s TDT speculates that intergroup communication impacts truth-bias. To test this notion, participants judged the veracity of videos of speakers from the U.S. and China discussing their opinions on mask mandates and personal relationships. The results show that people hold a stronger truth-bias toward in-group members when those people share the same stance on the social issue of mask mandates. However, the study findings did not show a relationship between cultural identity on truth-bias. Interestingly, all participants showed a higher lie judgment trigger sensitivity toward speakers from a different culture, and higher lie judgment trigger sensitivity was also present for those who shared differing opinions on mask mandates.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2077122
Aisha Powell
ABSTRACT This study examines the individual motivation of fourteen people who participated in a George Floyd protest during summer 2020. Using the two-step flow of communications model – which posits that individuals are not directly influenced by the media but instead by opinion leaders who interpret messaging and re-disseminated it – select participants of color were interviewed about why they protested and the mediating factors that influenced that decision. Most participants were strongly influenced by opinion leaders in their personal networks – including friends, family, activists and organizations that they trusted. Social media and traditional news sources were used as an addendum to these networks, with participants having the most skepticism about the information on traditional media platforms. The implications of this study exemplify how interpersonal communication and relationships are still the driving force behind modern social movements, despite many of them originating on the internet.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2077123
Stephanie Kelly, Michelle T. Violanti, Emily Denton, Ian Berry
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to identify how instructor misbehaviors influence students’ writing apprehension. Research prior to this study determined that students’ writing performance is hindered by their writing apprehension (e.g., Zabihi, 2018). The present study’s data indicate instructor misbehaviors of antagonism and lectures indirectly influence students’ writing apprehension through the mediation of students’ burnout. As such, the more instructors show antagonism and engage in boring, disorganized lecturing behaviors, the higher their students’ writing apprehension. Without careful communication management, professors of writing-intensive courses whose primary role is to help students improve their writing skills may become the barrier that prevents students from improving their writing skills.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2074303
M. Wanzer, Jennifer Czapla
ABSTRACT This study replicated and extended existing research on cancer survivors’ perceptions of helpful and unhelpful social support messages and sources. Forty-three participants with diverse cancer experiences were interviewed about their perceptions of helpful and unhelpful social support messages and sources. Participants recalled six categories of helpful (i.e., network, emotional, esteem, tangible, informational and unspecified) and five categories of unhelpful (i.e., network, emotional, esteem, tangible, informational) messages/sources received during and after cancer treatment. Helpful and unhelpful messages came from spouses, family members, friends, coworkers, healthcare providers and others. Patterns of meaningful message-source combinations are described. Participants recalled double the amount of helpful support messages than nonsupport messages, offering support for the positivity bias. Participants’ memories of helpful support messages and sources during treatment followed a consistent pattern; however, expectations and experiences of received social support after completion of cancer treatment were inconsistent and contradictory.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-10DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2073827
Joshua H. Miller
ABSTRACT Actors often lose or gain weight to satisfy specific esthetics for their roles. When Matt Bomer reportedly lost forty pounds for The Normal Heart, public discourse went well beyond the typical explanation for the weight loss. That discourse explained Bomer’s body transformation as a part of his sacrificial duty to the gay community. Rhetors positioned Bomer’s weight loss as a sacrifice to educate, envision, and justify a united gay community that would continue to act to address the many challenges the community continued to face. Yet, the case of Bomer’s extreme weight loss also serves as a cautionary tale about how exclusionary norms, including whiteness, ageism, and ableism, circulate within rhetorical efforts to build and sustain community. The essay provides insights into the relationships among bodies, public memory, commemoration, and community.
演员经常减肥或增肥来满足他们角色的特定审美。当马特·波默(Matt Bomer)为《平常心》(The Normal Heart)减掉40磅时，公众的讨论远远超出了对他减肥的典型解释。这段话语将波默的身体转变解释为他对同性恋群体的牺牲责任的一部分。修辞学家将波默的减肥定位为一种牺牲，以教育、展望和证明一个团结的同性恋社区将继续采取行动，解决社区继续面临的许多挑战。然而，波默极端减肥的案例也警示我们，包括白人、年龄歧视和残疾歧视在内的排他规范是如何在建立和维持社区的修辞努力中传播的。这篇文章提供了对身体、公众记忆、纪念和社区之间关系的见解。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2022.2054720
Alan K. Goodboy, San Bolkan, Matt Shin
ABSTRACT Relational turbulence theory (RTT) articulates processes that explain why spouses evaluate their marriages as chaotic. Specifically, RTT predicts that relational uncertainty biases cognitive appraisals about the marriage and that partner interference with daily routines heightens negative emotions toward the spouse, both of which, culminate in relational turbulence. Our study confirmed these theoretical processes in marriage. However, by integrating attachment theory predictions into RTT to further inform these processes, we demonstrated that RTT’s mechanisms were not the same for all spouses as they were dependent upon individuals’ attachment dimensions. Results of a latent profile analysis with distal outcomes indicated that RTT’s relationship parameters differed among spouses’ attachment styles, and results of conditional process models revealed that spouses who were higher in both attachment avoidance and anxiety experienced the most relational turbulence through theorized processes. Because RTT’s relationship parameters and processes differed by spouses’ attachment, our results speak to the importance of considering the moderation of RTT’s mechanistic pathways with particular emphasis on partners who vary in relationship security and interpersonal vulnerabilities
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