This dissertation investigates how sexual and reproductive health (SRH) chatbots can be optimized to enhance health management among young adults. Utilizing a mixed-metho[...]

This dissertation explores the question of what queer may do, be, or mean through a rhetorical investigation into three instances of ACT UP’s political funerals. In parti[...]

Personality characteristics can incline a person to imbue aspects of a situation with personal psychological meaning. Because of this, personality traits also influence[...]

Research on family communication and mental health has largely explored parents influence on childrens psychological distress. Less is known about how family members prom[...]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), arguably the most successful animal rights organization, encounters a tremendous obstacle in selling the animal rights[...]

This dissertation examines the speeches of Jefferson Davis before and during the Civil War. Through four case studies, I examine Daviss vision of the Confederacy as artic[...]

This study examines the relationship between dependence power and Early Head Start and Head Start (EHS/HS) mothers' tolerance of intimate partner violence. Seventy-four [...]

The Arab-Israeli conflict has long been presented as eternal and irresolvable. A rhetorical history argues that the standard narrative can be challenged by considering it[...]

The economic crisis that began in 2008 marked a rhetorical shift in the construction, expression and negotiation of economic citizenship in the United States. Economic ci[...]

This project examines the effects of planning condition, plan flexibility, planning persistence, task type, and perceived empathic accuracy on resolution of conflictual d[...]

Research on social support touts the numerous benefits it offers distressed individuals. Although research has made relevant contributions to understanding the reasons so[...]

This secondary data analysis utilizes an observational coding measure and perceptual assessments reported by family triads to examine the current propositions and applica[...]

This study empirically tested Nabi and Greens (2015) theoretical postulations regarding the persuasive effects of emotional flow in the context of a narrative health mess[...]

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an understudied, and often ignored epidemic among returning service men and women. Looking at PTSD through the lens of the relatio[...]

This study examined the relationships between seven risk and protective factors and perceptions of bias in anti-smoking messages among an adolescent sample (N = 392; mean[...]

This dissertation analyzes the rise of a feminist foreign policy perspective at different levels of global governance. I argue that feminist foreign policy rhetorics repr[...]

Jealousy research primarily involves identifying and studying antecedents and correlates of jealousy experience and expression. To learn more about the consequences of je[...]

Two contrasting predictions about how African American female stereotypes influence judgments of other African American females were tested. Participants were undergradua[...]

This thesis examines three different hearings in which the United States third female secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, testified before Congress: her confirmation hea[...]

This study explores why young, White, suburban adults are consumers and fans of hip-hop music, considering it is a Black cultural art form that is specific to African-Ame[...]

This dissertation focuses on attitude accessibilitys impact on message perceptions and future recall as prior research demonstrates accessibility is the mechanism through[...]

This dissertation examined the utility of adding a goal perception assessment to bolster health intervention evaluation. Study 1 used the expectancy theory model of antec[...]

This dissertation is an examination of American media discourses pertaining to democracy and feminism in Iraq and Afghanistan during the U.S.-led military conflicts. The[...]

Growing from an interest in the various conflicts centered on the relationship between lesbian and second wave feminist politics, I explore the ways that rhetorical proc[...]