- University of Maryland, College Park, Communication, Faculty Memberadd
- Communication, Argumentation, Communication Theory, Debate, persuasion, argumentation pedagogy, Interpersonal Communication, Conflict, and 6 moreInquisition, Argumentation Theory, Interpersonal Communication / Persuasion / Social Influence / Language and Message Variables, Fallacies, Imagined Interactions, and Message Productionedit
- Ph.D., Speech Communication, University of Illinois
A.M., Speech Communication, University of Illinois
B.S., Economics, Ohio State Universityedit
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This paper examines topics of serial arguments in different contexts and relationship types. Data from previous studies were compiled to examine the open-ended desaiptions that participants (N = 2,246) provided for their serial arguments.... more
This paper examines topics of serial arguments in different contexts and relationship types. Data from previous studies were compiled to examine the open-ended desaiptions that participants (N = 2,246) provided for their serial arguments. Data were coded based on topic type (i.e., public, professional, or personal) and disagreement type (i.e., disagreements over behaviors or ideas). These coded categories and respondents' sex were then used to examine possible differences in approach, goals, tactics, and outcomes of serial arguments. Results indicated several differences based on topic type, disagreement type, and their interaction, as well as differences between men and women. These results are discussed in respect to the serial arguments literature.
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Guided by the Categorization-Elaboration Model, we developed and tested a model to reconcile the conflicting results of cultural diversity’s influence on team performance. Previous theory and studies have inconsistent arguments and... more
Guided by the Categorization-Elaboration Model, we developed and tested a model to reconcile the conflicting results of cultural diversity’s influence on team performance. Previous theory and studies have inconsistent arguments and evidence regarding cultural diversity’s effects on team performance. We recognize that member cultural diversity is one possible influence on the variety and meanings of messages generated within groups, and the messages’ meanings may then affect performance. Work-related information sharing, including information sharing openness and uniqueness, is proposed as an underlying mechanism that translates the effect of cultural diversity to project team performance. Additionally, team cultural intelligence may moderate the relationship between cultural diversity and the information sharing processes. Participants constituted three types of teams: all American ( N = 32 teams), all Chinese ( N = 34 teams), and mixed ( N = 38 teams), in which team members finished a business problem identification task collectively. Results showed that in culturally diverse teams, high levels of cultural intelligence amplified the positive relationship between cultural diversity and information sharing uniqueness, which in turn led to higher team performance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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This project investigates orientations toward interpersonal arguing among Chilean seniors (N = 243), having a mean age of 72 years. We found no prior attention to seniors in the interpersonal arguing literature, and only a little to... more
This project investigates orientations toward interpersonal arguing among Chilean seniors (N = 243), having a mean age of 72 years. We found no prior attention to seniors in the interpersonal arguing literature, and only a little to Chileans. Sited within the US framework for studying interpersonal arguing (see Hample, 2016), this project collected seniors’ responses to survey items indexing argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness, argument frames, personalization of conflict, and power distance. Our exploratory work involved use of a second sample of Chilean undergraduates (N = 80) for comparison. Comparisons showed that the seniors were less likely to argue, especially for play. Seniors were more interested in asserting dominance and were less cooperative and civil. Few sex differences were observed among the seniors, whereas quite a few had been previously found for Chilean undergraduates. These differences are attributed to the age of the seniors, although the possibility of a ...
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ABSTRACT This exploratory study analyzed the motivations and practices of argumentation in India, an increasingly important player in regional and international affairs. Indian data indicated that arguing patterns were influenced by age... more
ABSTRACT This exploratory study analyzed the motivations and practices of argumentation in India, an increasingly important player in regional and international affairs. Indian data indicated that arguing patterns were influenced by age and gender. Younger men reported more playful arguing than women and older women reported being more stressed by arguments than men. Cross-culturally, Indians considered arguing less a part of civil discourse and reported higher feelings of being personally persecuted in arguments when compared to Americans. Also, the approach and avoidance subscales of argumentativeness, and the subscales of verbal aggressiveness were positively correlated, an atypical finding. The similarities and differences between the two countries are analyzed through a cultural lens to better understand interpersonal arguing.
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ABSTRACT In legal and educational circles, the quality of arguments has become a growing national concern in Mexico. We examined the motivations, understandings, and private reactions to arguing among Mexican college students, and compare... more
ABSTRACT In legal and educational circles, the quality of arguments has become a growing national concern in Mexico. We examined the motivations, understandings, and private reactions to arguing among Mexican college students, and compare these to data from the United States. Mexican men were more aggressive than women, which is not the case in all nations studied to this point. Mexicans were very substantially more oriented to civility than U.S. respondents, more sophisticated in their understandings of interpersonal arguing, and far less inclined to take conflicts personally. Power distance was a substantial predictor for many of the measures used here.
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Farine\u27s paper connects to some other accounts of argument norms
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An ideal understanding of good interpersonal disagreement might propose that it be community argument. Such arguing takes place within a mutual community of shared values and mutual respect, or invites an external person to join the... more
An ideal understanding of good interpersonal disagreement might propose that it be community argument. Such arguing takes place within a mutual community of shared values and mutual respect, or invites an external person to join the arguers’ communities during the argument. This chapter raises concerns about the prospects for community argument.
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I wish to argue in favor of a particular orientation, one expressed in Brockriede\u27s remark that arguments are not in statements but in people. While much has been gained from textual analyses, even more will accrue by additional... more
I wish to argue in favor of a particular orientation, one expressed in Brockriede\u27s remark that arguments are not in statements but in people. While much has been gained from textual analyses, even more will accrue by additional attention to the arguers. I consider that textual materials are really only the artifacts of arguments. The actual arguing is done exclusively by people, either the argument producers or receivers, and never by words on a page. In fact, most of our textual interpretations are quietly founded on the assumption that the artifact is fully informative about what people thin
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ABSTRACT Asks whether different kinds of arguments are essentially similar or different. Considers three kinds of argument as potentially the primary argument. Rejects each, concluding that these kinds of argument are fundamentally... more
ABSTRACT Asks whether different kinds of arguments are essentially similar or different. Considers three kinds of argument as potentially the primary argument. Rejects each, concluding that these kinds of argument are fundamentally similar. Focuses on the ideas of publicness, sociality, and cognition, assuming these to be the main possibilities for contrasting different kinds of argument. (MS)
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We explored the effects of evidence, credibility, style, and risk perceptions on attitudes toward the recommendations of persuasive health messages. The health messages concerned antibacterial soap, meningitis vaccination, and an... more
We explored the effects of evidence, credibility, style, and risk perceptions on attitudes toward the recommendations of persuasive health messages. The health messages concerned antibacterial soap, meningitis vaccination, and an over-the-counter diet drug. Respondents (N = 916) provided their perceptions of the messages' evidence, the source's intrinsic credibility, and severity of and susceptibility to risk. We found that the effects of credibility on attitudes were spurious, and that the apparent effects were entirely due to the messages' evidence quality. Severity and susceptibility influenced attitudes even in the presence of evidence effects. Evidence influenced the levels of perceived severity and susceptibility. The inclusion of scientific jargon and statistical information had no discernible effect on either attitudes or credibility. The results indicate that evidence quality should be a fundamental consideration in the design of health messages.
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ABSTRACT We report data on Portuguese understandings of interpersonal arguing, based on a survey conducted in Portugal (N = 252). Employing concepts and methods developed for studying interpersonal arguing, we report on the levels of... more
ABSTRACT We report data on Portuguese understandings of interpersonal arguing, based on a survey conducted in Portugal (N = 252). Employing concepts and methods developed for studying interpersonal arguing, we report on the levels of argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness, personalization of conflict, and argument frames. After comparing Portuguese men and women, we compare Portuguese respondents with two groups of US respondents. In contrast to US respondents, Portuguese report to argue more prosocially, cooperatively and civilly, and are more sophisticated in their reflections about arguing. We discuss these results in the context of the Portuguese notion of argumentation (argumentação) and Portuguese culture more broadly.
Research Interests: Psychology, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Argumentation, Linguistics, and 11 moreArgumentation Theory, Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking, Cross-Cultural Communicaiton, Portugal, Cross Cultural Communication, Cross Cultural Psychology, Cross cultural management, Cross cultural studies, Teoría de la Argumentación, Teoria Da Argumentação, and Routledge
International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication, ed. Berger & Roloff
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International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication, ed. Berger & Roloff
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International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication, ed Berger & Roloff
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Presented at the biennial AFA/NCA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, August.
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Paper presented to the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV, November
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Paper presented to the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV, November.
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Paper presented to the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV, November.
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This study examines reactions to others' conflict. We examined the effects of taking conflict personally (TCP), sex, conflict initiation (husband vs. wife initiation), and past victimization from domestic abuse on predicting conciliation... more
This study examines reactions to others' conflict. We examined the effects of taking conflict personally (TCP), sex, conflict initiation (husband vs. wife initiation), and past victimization from domestic abuse on predicting conciliation in response to escalating aggression over four time periods. We examined both the prediction of escalation and imagined interaction conflict-linkage in terms of persons ruminating about the escalating disagreement as it unfolded as well as blood pressure and heart rate. Latent growth curve modeling, controlling for first-order autocorrelation among the residuals, revealed that being male predicted a rise in aggression as conflict escalated. Victims predicted more conciliation as conflict escalated. Male-initiated conflict was associated with more imagined interaction rumination as the conflict intensified.
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The most productive arguing typically involves differences in views, and these are to be experienced in contact with communities other than the arguer's. These communities can be social groups or, metaphorically, discrete sections of long... more
The most productive arguing typically involves differences in views, and these are to be experienced in contact with communities other than the arguer's. These communities can be social groups or, metaphorically, discrete sections of long term memory. Evolution has ensured that people are inclined to agree with their own social communities and disparage out-group views. It has also designed human memory to have isolated chunks of information that do not normally touch. These inheritances are inherent obstacles to community argument. Emerging ones come from recent work by social scientists, who are designing persuasion techniques that are intended to short-circuit critical thinking. These research projects include distraction, nudging, narratives, visual messages, and others. The ISSA community should begin work on a pedagogy to address these matters.
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A study of interpersonal arguing - exchanging and testing reasons in ordinary conversation
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A survey of research on face to face arguing
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A full length treatment of face to face arguing