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What Happened? Naming and Talking About Acquaintance Rape
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Abstract I love him. I do. He has this goofy, sideways grin. No matter where you are in the room, it always looks like he’s smiling just at you. Whenever he makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, he measures out three tablespoons of peanut butter—exactly—for each slice of bread. He sings the B...
Statistics in Exercise Science
Author(s): Michael Phillips
The purpose of Assessment and Evaluation in Exercise Science is to engage student’s understanding of basic statistical procedures. From understanding the basics of independent and dependent variables to running One-way and Two-way ANOVA’s. This publication will also direct students to select/constru...
Weak Tie Network Support in an Online Substance Abuse Community
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Abstract In recent years, a number of communication scholars have found that online support communities can enhance, or extend, individuals’ social support networks by providing greater access to the increased social capital available in a larger, easier to maintain, network of individuals who ar...
Multiculturalism, Contact Zones, and the Political Core of Intercultural Education
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Sample From mid-semester onward students frequently tell me that suddenly everything going on in society seems related to what we’ve been discussing in our class, Intercultural Education. To me this is a sign of deep learning—they now engage differently with previously familiar phenomena. Below a...
Case Studies of Murder: The Enigma of the American Serial Killer
Author(s): James Sparks
The goal of Case Studies of Murder: The Enigma of the American Serial Killer is to provide informative, qualitative case studies of those individuals who have been arrested and convicted of serial murder crimes in the United States. Each chapter is written with detailed narratives on specific indivi...
Shhhh, I'm Working!: Working from Home and Struggling to Manage Relationships
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Sample While technology use can create relational closeness, social support, and immediacy (Caughlin & Sharabi, 2013), technology use also contributes to stress when crossing personal and professional borders (Ruppel, Gong, & Tworoger, 2013). For example, Wright and colleagues (2014) studied how ...
Using Formative and Summative Research to Inform Health Campaign Design: Promoting Organ Donation
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Using Formative and Summative Research to Inform Health Campaign Design: Promoting Organ Donation
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Abstract The use of organ transplantation as a life-saving treatment option is restricted by the limited number of organs donated each year. To increase the pool of organs available for transplant, health campaigns are developed to educate potential donors and to promote donor registration throug...
From Lujo with Love
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Often, risk communicators have to negotiate an awareness of legitimized, and illegitimate, public panic. That is, the difference between what causes public panic and what actually leads to injury or death, which is not always congruent. For example, a study found that people were more likely to die ...