Graduate Student
Presentations & Publications

Chelsea Hammond

Presentation:
Nowak, K., Hamilton, M., Hammond, C., & Krishnan, A. (2007). Evaluations of Avatars: Anthropomorphic, Realistic and Gendered Imagery as Triggers of Charisma Effects. Paper presented at the conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Jeffrey Kotz

Presentations:
Kotz, J., Cistulli, M., & Palumbo, P. The effects of fear-appeals in an anti-smoking advertisement .  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2006.

Kotz, J., Renfro, S. & Cistulli, M. The effect of audio-video signal delay on interpersonal synchrony of gaze and smile: a frequency domain and time domain time-series analysis . Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2006.

Snyder, L., Kotz, J., LaPierre, M., Maloney, E., & Fuhrel, A.Entertainment-Education Approaches for Reaching Urban Youth. Presenter for the Health Communication Division panel focusing on Individuals at Risk: Reports from the CDC Centers of Excellence in Health Communication at the XXth annual meeting of the National Communication Association in San Antonio, TX.

Kotz, J. (2007). Defining Christian beliefs and proselytism to explore belief discrepancy effects. Paper presented at the XXth meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Archana Krishnan

Presentation:
Nowak, K., Hamilton, M., Hammond, C., & Krishnan, A. (2007). Evaluations of Avatars: Anthropomorphic, Realistic and Gendered Imagery as Triggers of Charisma Effects. Paper presented at the conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Shu Li

Presentation:
VanLear, C.A., Li, S., & Rangarajan, S. (2007). Communication, Social Support, and Emotional Quality of Life in Alcoholism Recovery. Paper will be presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, 2007.

Stacie Renfro Powers

Publications:
Buck, R., & Powers, S. R. (2006). The Biological Foundations of Social Organization: The Dynamic Emergence of Social Structure through Nonverbal Communication. In V. Manusov and Miles Patterson (Eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication .  (119-138). Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage Publications.

Presentations:
Buck, R., Kenny, D. A., Powers, S. R., Boone, R. T., Triantis, G., Ferrer, R., & Iwamitsu, Y. (2007, January). Individual and dyad-level factors in emotional communication: How much do close relationships count in mediating health effects? Symposium "The Communication of Emotion in Close Relationships," conducted at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Memphis, TN.

Pearson. A. R., West. T. V., Renfro (Powers), S, Buck, R., Dovidio, J. F., Ferris, J. K., Henning, R. A., & Rauh. C. (2007, January). “Live via satellite”: The impact of disrupted communication on inter- and intra-racial perception. Poster session presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Memphis, TN.

Powers, S. R., & Rauh, C. (2006, November). The Effect of Feedback Delay on the Experience and Communication of Emotions: A Dyadic Analysis. Paper presented at the 92nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. San Antonio, TX. ***Top Student Paper Award***

Kotz, J., Renfro (Powers), S., & Cistulli, M. (2006, November). The Effect of Audio-Video Signal Delay on Interpersonal Synchrony of Gaze and Smile: A Frequency Domain and Time Domain Time-Series Analysis. Paper presented at the 92nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. San Antonio, TX.

Powers, S. R., Peham, D., Koschier, A., Easton, C.., & Buck, R. (2006, August). A Case Study of a Mother and her Son with Schizophrenia using FACS analysis. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions, Atlanta, GA.

Powers, S. (2007). An fMRI Study of Nonverbal Receiving Ability: Implications for a Neural Model of Empathy. Accepted panel "In Search of the Right Mind: Left- and Right-Hemisphere Bases of Communication" to be presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Jeffrey Wickersham

Publications:
Wickersham, J. A., Sherblom, J. C., & Richmond, V. P.  (2004). A twenty year retrospective on a research community: An analysis of scholarship published in Communication Research Reports .  Communication Research Reports, 21 , 437-444.

Updated September 18, 2007