Recent commstudies_rw items

Reeling History: Film as Records for Human Rights Abuses

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Reeling History: Film as Records for Human Rights Abuses

Fight the Power, Music & Politics

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fight the Power, Music & Politics

The Politics of Feeling: Contemporary Japanese Art & Anti-War Narratives

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Under the instruction of Professor Von Blum, this research paper examines how contemporary Japanese anti-war artists use affect, memory, and visual culture to communicate political resistance.

Country-of-Origin as Visual Communication: How Labels Shape Meaning in the Global Marketplace

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This departmental honors thesis examines how country-of-origin labels ("Made in Italy," "Made in USA," & "Made in Japan") function as visual communication cues through a survey-based experimental design. By comparing responses across conditions, the research explores how the "Made in" visual marker carries broader cultural, political, and symbolic meanings.

Ethical Guidelines in Approaching Queer “Outings”

Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The research project supervised by Professor Newton will analyze journalists’ ethical guidelines in approaching LGBTQ+ narratives. Should the press disclose individuals’ queer identities (with or without consent)? How does this impact the audience and society?

Cross-cultural laughter data Phase II

Wed, 7 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Data and R code for manuscript "The perception of spontaneous and volitional laughter across 21 societies."

Published data Bryant et al. (2016) PNAS

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Complete dataset for manuscript "Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies" in PNAS.

Erotica, Aggression and Perceived Appropriateness

Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Malamuth, Feshbach, & Jaffe (1977) recently outlined a model designed to integrate some of the findings in the sex and aggression literature. The purpose of the present paper is to elaborate upon some aspects of that model, to discuss a recent experiment designed to directly test its predictions, and to consider additional directions for the model's development and for research.

Virtual Discussion: Web-based Discussion Forums in Political Science

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

On-line discussion, while promising in theory, often turns out to be disappointing in application. Low levels of student participation are a particularly vexing and common problem. I argue that to overcome these chronic problems, instructors must recognize the collective action problems inherent in on-line discussion and address them, primarily through the use of selective incentives.

I test this contention using on-line experiments conducted on undergraduate political science students. The results of the experiments provide evidence of an underlying free-rider problem and support for the contention that selective incentives are an effective means of overcoming this problem. In another level of analysis, the experiment also shows that even basic student-to-student on-line discussion can be an effective teaching tool, rivaling the effectiveness of more costly traditional web sites.

Exposure to Pornography and Reactions to Rape

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

80 male and female students were exposed to sexually violent, sexually non-violent or neutral stimuli. All subjects then viewed an interview with an actual rape victim and responded to a questionnaire assessing rape-related attitudes and perceptions. Weeks later, subjects indicated their views on rape as part of what was purported to be a general survey of public attitudes. The data indicated that exposure to sexual stimuli, of a violent or non-violent nature, reduced the extent to which subjects perceived that pornography may have detrimental effects but did not affect reactions to rape. Correlational data revealed that sexual arousal to the portrayal of sexual violence, but not to non-violent sexuality, was associated with a self-reported possibility of engaging in rape, a self-report that was strongly related to a callous attitude towards rape and rape victims.