Sentences with phrase «communication researchers»

Communication researchers also find sexual communication is correlated with sexual satisfaction.

«All of you can be individual opinion - leaders,» with the use of social media, said Matthew Nisbet, associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a science communication researcher at AAAS.

The continuous analysis of programme content by communication researchers such as George Gerbner shows that the levels of gratuitous violence in U.S. television are as high as ever.

Much of our thinking on contentious issues is influenced by our pre-established social or cultural groups, says Dan Kahan, a law professor and science communication researcher at Yale Law School.

However, in a study recently published in the Journal of Communication researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany and VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands found that people who were highly stressed after work did not feel relaxed or recovered when they watched TV or played computer or video games.

Now, University of Missouri communication researchers are studying the benefits and challenges of open adoptions.

Use of the term «denier» is accurate in some cases, says Ed Maibach, a climate communications researcher at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

News attention to climate change appears to follow a narrative cycle, where according to communication researchers Katherine McComas and James Shanahan (1999), rather than reflecting the objective conditions of the issue, coverage will follow closely the issue's dramatic qualities including claims related to risks and costs as well as the surrounding political conflict.

That APA article quoted a Canisius College interpersonal communications researcher as saying «Students don't necessarily want Jerry Seinfeld as their instructor.

Dating experts and communication researchers say social networks offer clues — shared news links that reveal interests, pictures from daily life, how people interact with friends — that dating profiles don't typically expose.

That, at least, was the conclusion of communications researcher Zeynep Tufecki after an informal experiment described Saturday in the New York Times.

Dr Grant is an internationally renowned wireless communications researcher.

Fast forward to the Internet Age, when communication researchers ran 859 U.S. grocery shoppers through a similar thought experiment: Half the subjects in an online survey read the story of the 1850s Irish Potato Famine, learning the potential impact of fungal Phytophthora infestans on potato and tomato crops today.

Join discussions with scientists, public engagement professionals, and communication researchers on Trellis, AAAS's new communication platform.

For the new study, reported in the 20 April issue of Science, animal communication researcher Karen McComb of the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom, and Sarah Durant of the Institute of Zoology in London studied 20 small family groups of elephants, each typically containing several females and their calves, in Kenya.

In their actual publication in Nature Communications the researchers provide an unprecedented and detailed molecular insight in the way the zeolite mimics the active site of the enzyme methane monooxygenase (MMO).

Mammal communication researchers have shown that, like humans, horses use muscles underlying various facial features — including their nostrils, lips and eyes — to alter their facial expressions in a variety of social situations.

Researchers have speculated about zebra stripes for years, says Graeme Ruxton, a visual communication researcher at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the current work.

The full report and accompanying commentary by communications researcher Ellen Wartella (Northwestern University) are available free to the public online.

Furthermore, a health communication researcher asks to share your experience with autoimmune thyroid disease and how it affects one... [Read more...]

However, contrary to this conventional wisdom, new nationally representative survey data analyzed by American University communication researchers and collected by the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication reveal that Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are, for the most part, split on the issue of global warming and, on some indicators, relatively disengaged when compared to older generations.

If communication researchers have trouble establishing clear evidence of a significant impact for Climategate, what explains the apparent overreaction by scientists and their bunker mentality?

Communications researcher Jennings Bryant, PhD underlines this fact, based on his experiences with Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

Throughout her writing and lectures, virtual communication researcher Sherry Turkle shares unsettling stories of «connecting» in the Digital Age — chilling anecdotes from her own life and from the lives of others that illustrate the dangers of taking the norms of today's high - tech society for granted — snapshots of moments that expose the alienation created by blind acceptance of these norms.

(Communication researchers considered communication satisfaction to be an important index of willingness to communicate.).

In fact, communication researcher Jonathan Pettigrew reported in a study published in 2009 in the journal «Marriage & Family Review» that couples who sent each other text messages experienced increased feelings of connectedness.

Relationship satisfaction is directly related to assurances one partner provides to the other, according to communication researchers Marianne Dainton and Laura Stafford.

He is Editor of the journal Environmental Communication; founding Editor - in - Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication, and a consulting science communication researcher to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Now, University of Missouri communication researchers have found that online social media gives users an outlet to embrace their differences and provide emotional support to others while deepening perceived relationships they feel they have with celebrities.

Last summer, climate communication researchers at George Mason University and Yale University published a commentary urging the science community to reiterate the scientific consensus on climate change — that 97 percent of scientists support the conclusion that climate change is real, and humans are causing it — citing studies showing that exposing individuals to this message can increase their estimates of the scientific consensus by 10 to 20 percent.

News attention to climate change appears to follow a narrative cycle, where according to communication researchers Katherine McComas and James Shanahan (1999), rather than reflecting the objective conditions of the issue, coverage will follow closely the issue's dramatic qualities including claims related to...

As an interpersonal communication researcher, I focus on the behavioral aspect of jealousy and I believe that it is the most important component — relationships and other individuals are, after all, only affected by your jealousy once you let them know that you are jealous.

The sexual self - disclosure and sexual communication literature have been examined by different types of scholars: in general sexual self - disclosure has been investigated by social psychologist while sexual communication has been investigated by communication researchers and family therapists.

While the effects of television violence and of children's commercials have, justifiably, dominated the attention of both consumer groups and communications researchers, the issue of heroism in children's programs has been largely and unduly neglected.

In the same study, Hans Peter Peters, a communication researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and his colleagues found that about 40 % of researchers were concerned about critical reactions from peers resulting from their media involvement.

Between 1 and 2 p.m. eastern time this afternoon I discussed extreme weather and climate change on the The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU with Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Rutgers University focused on the impact of Arctic conditions, and Matthew Nisbet, a communications researcher at American University.

There's a highly relevant new post by Declan Fahy, a communications researcher at American University, on the Columbia Journalism Review blog, along with a related paper in the journal Journalism: Theory, Criticism and Practice by Fahy and Matthew Nisbet, also of that university.

Now, Matthew Nisbet, a communications researcher at American University who has focused of late on climate campaigns (generating no shortage of sparks), takes a long deep look at McKibben's career in «Nature's Prophet: Bill McKibben as Journalist, Public Intellectual and Activist,» a paper published by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where Nisbet recently completed a residency.

Over the past several decades, communication researchers and other social scientists have developed a set of quantitative content analysis procedures as a methodological tool for validly and reliably measuring trends and portrayals in media coverage.

Signatories also include journalism, media and communications researchers and academics.

Communication researchers have investigated how people may craft messages that are more vs. less effective at getting what they want.