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Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion. (2023)
Journal Article
Guyer, J. J., Briñol, P., Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fabrigar, L. R., Moreno, L., Paredes, B., & Petty, R. E. (online). Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231197547

Three experiments tested how low versus high pitch generated from sources beyond a message communicator can affect reliance on thoughts and influence recipients' attitudes. First, participants wrote positive or negative thoughts about an exam proposa... Read More about Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion..

Desired Attitudes Guide Actual Attitude Change (2022)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fabrigar, L. R., Xia, J., DeMarree, K., & Clark, J. (2023). Desired Attitudes Guide Actual Attitude Change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 105, Article 104437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104437

Whereas actual attitudes represent people's evaluations of specific objects as being good or bad, desired attitudes represent the attitude positions that people wish they held. Previous work has established that desired attitudes can have psychologic... Read More about Desired Attitudes Guide Actual Attitude Change.

Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-esteem (2022)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fowlie, D. I., & Jacobson, J. A. (2023). Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-esteem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(9), 1344–1362. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221100866

Attitude position and function often are discussed as though they are distinct aspects of attitudes, but scholars have become increasingly interested in how they may interface. We extend existing work showing that people view their positive attitudes... Read More about Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-esteem.

Facilitating Scientific Communication Between Strangers: A Preregistered Lost E-Mail Experiment (2022)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fowlie, D. I., & Jacobson, J. A. (2022). Facilitating Scientific Communication Between Strangers: A Preregistered Lost E-Mail Experiment. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 25(7), 424-431. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2021.0272

Communication scholars are increasingly concerned about biases that shape people's interactions with science. Past study has focused on echo chambers (cultivating social networks that reinforce existing worldviews). People's facilitation of scientifi... Read More about Facilitating Scientific Communication Between Strangers: A Preregistered Lost E-Mail Experiment.

Age Differences in Leadership Positions across Cultures (2021)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T., Imtiaz, F., Lee, A., & Ji, L.-J. (2021). Age Differences in Leadership Positions across Cultures. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 703831. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703831

In most countries around the world, the population is rapidly aging. A by-product of these demographic shifts is that older adults will likely occupy more positions of power and influence in our societies than ever before. Further, cultural differenc... Read More about Age Differences in Leadership Positions across Cultures.

Paralinguistic Features Communicated through Voice can Affect Appraisals of Confidence and Evaluative Judgments (2021)
Journal Article
Guyer, J. J., Briñol, P., Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fabrigar, L. R., Moreno, L., & Petty, R. E. (2021). Paralinguistic Features Communicated through Voice can Affect Appraisals of Confidence and Evaluative Judgments. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 45(4), 479-504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00374-2

This article unpacks the basic mechanisms by which paralinguistic features communicated through the voice can affect evaluative judgments and persuasion. Special emphasis is placed on exploring the rapidly emerging literature on vocal features linked... Read More about Paralinguistic Features Communicated through Voice can Affect Appraisals of Confidence and Evaluative Judgments.

The Role of Vocal Affect in Persuasion: The CIVA Model (2021)
Journal Article
Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Guyer, J. J., Fabrigar, L. R., & Shen, C. (2021). The Role of Vocal Affect in Persuasion: The CIVA Model. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 45(4), 455-477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00373-3

Past research has largely focused on how emotional expressions provide information about the speaker’s emotional state, but has generally neglected vocal affect’s influence over communication effectiveness. This is surprising given that other nonverb... Read More about The Role of Vocal Affect in Persuasion: The CIVA Model.

Exploring preferences for present- and future-focused job opportunities across seniors and young adults (2021)
Journal Article
Imtiaz, F., Ji, L.-J., & Vaughan-Johnston, T. (2023). Exploring preferences for present- and future-focused job opportunities across seniors and young adults. Current Psychology, 42(1), 470–485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01365-8

Given the rapid increase of the senior population around the world, the current research documents how the concept of time influences the job preferences of older and younger adults in an organizational behavior context. Study 1 reported that older a... Read More about Exploring preferences for present- and future-focused job opportunities across seniors and young adults.