Marceline Thompson-Hayes

Arkansas State University - Jonesboro | ASU · Department of Communication

This study approaches the interplay between terror management and social identity theories to examine the individual and joint effects of mortality salience (MS) and social group difference (SGD). A 2 (MS: present/absent) × 2 (SGD: immigrant/nonimmigrant perpetrator) within-subjects repeated measures experiment was designed to study news viewers’ n...

Qualitative researchers attempt to accurately represent informants' voices. Accurate representation is especially challenging when studying small or difficult-to-access populations, such as transsexual teens. Effective strategies for achieving accurate representation include representativeness in selecting informants/messages to study, using inform...

Attempts to raise awareness on a multitude of health issues may actually be counter-productive and even dangerous to solving contemporary health problems. From Awareness to Commitment in Public Health Campaigns: The Awareness Myth discusses several myths of the benefits of raising awareness. Myleea Hill and Marceline Thompson-Hayes argue that using...

This study found that mortality salience in TV news activated more hostile attitude toward the perpetrators and negative judgment on the immigration issue. Social group difference influenced news viewers’ immigration issue judgment, but did not affect their resultant hostility and perceived vulnerability. More negative attitudes emerged toward the...

Awareness is a common goal of public health campaigns. However, awareness as an end goal may be counterproductive and may lead to slactivism instead of action. The purpose of the present research was to analyze reactions to the Facebook breast cancer “Do You Like it on the …”game via feedback to an article stating that the game is not cute/sexy/inf...

Mad Men is among the most critically acclaimed and award-winning television dramas of all time. This original series appearing on the cable channel AMC (American Movie Classics) is a popular culture phenomenon: “Its actors appear on the covers of magazines and on the late-night talk shows; the series is reviewed by respected movie critics in widely...

We undertook an examination of the stars of Mad Men from the fans’ perspective. Via a detailed analysis of commentary on fan websites, we identified the stars of the fan blogs and how the fans talked about their stars.

Courses: Interpersonal Communication, Relational CommunicationObjective: To define, identify, and apply key features of account-making

Using Audience Reception Theory as a guide, we content analyzed discussion of brides and their weddings on eleven popular Mad Men fansites to discover fans’ interpretations of the show’s portrayal of brides and their weddings. Three supra themes emerged in a grounded theory analysis: feminist concerns (attire, brides’ weight, child brides, and the...

This chapter reports on a systematic and detailed study of fan commentary about Mad Men. Using Audience Reception Theory as a guide, we content analyzed a random selection of posts on eleven popular Mad Men fansites to discover how fans interpret the “text” of the show. Our grounded-theory analyses reveal that fans engage in multi-faceted analyses...

This chapter explicates interviewing as a viable research method for studying virtual work. The chapter begins with a review of the existing interdisciplinary scholarship on qualitative interviewing along with three modes of interviewing, interviewing techniques, formats, and rigor. Next, the chapter reviews exemplary research reports on virtual wo...

We conducted focus groups to examine college student viewers' perceptions of popular culture portrayals of family communication as depicted on television. Our participants characterized fictional families on television as (a) primarily communicating ideally rather than realistically and (b) primarily communicating about extreme situations rather th...

We conducted twenty semi-structured interviews with university professors from eight states in the US about their collaborations via computer mediated communication. Our thematic analysis of verbatim transcripts uncovered four dialectical tensions (an interplay of opposing and contradictory forces typically resolved through communication) in such i...

We conducted seventeen in-depth, semi-structured interviews to discover whether the conceptualizations proposed by Thompson-Hayes and Webb (2004) in their communicative theory of marital commitment comported with the lived experience of marital dyads. Each spouse validated the conceptualizations of commitment (the extent to which spouses experience...

Emotional experience is important to people's understandings of interpersonal arguments. However, very little research illuminates the moment-to-moment emotionality of arguing. This project used emotional data from dyadic arguers. Arguer, partner, and coder ratings of anger, happiness, sadness, tenderness, and attitude toward the other were gathere...

Applying a dialectic perspective, we reconceptualize marital commitment from an individual variable to a dyadic variable. We propose a path model that predicts seven relationships among four key variables, that is, commitment, projected longevity of the relationship, communication maintenance behaviors, and marital quality. Basing the hypotheses on...

Applying a dialectic perspective, we reconceptualize marital commitment from an individual variable to a dyadic variable. We propose a path model that predicts seven relationships among four key variables, that is, commitment, projected lon-gevity of the relationship, communication maintenance behaviors, and marital quality. Basing the hypotheses o...

A content analysis of five popular lower-division textbooks in interpersonal communication revealed 37 common theoretical ideas that were discussed in at least three of the five textbooks. The common theories can be easily divided into four broad conceptual categories: (a) issues surrounding symbolic self; (b) issues of perception; (c) verbal skill...