Call for Papers - Human Communication Research
We're now accepting submissions for a special issue: "Who Are We Studying in Communication Research? Revisiting Audience in a Transforming Media Environment"
Extended abstract deadline: August 31, 2026
https://t.co/uh0GzeyGsa
New in HCR: Stewart M. Coles (2026) finds that social media endorsements from co-partisans increased exposure intentions for a fictitious television program. This co-partisan endorsement effect was stronger among White participants.
Read more: https://t.co/Llypjhj9aj
New in HCR: Zhu et al. (2026) show that larger choice sets increased overall and cross-cutting news selection, while choice set composition shaped cross-cutting exposure. Attitudes and behavioral intentions did not significantly change in the short term.
https://t.co/gGkQAV9a6V
New @HCR_Journal issue out now!
Featuring research on interparental conflict and parent-child triangulation, body-positive and fitspirational influencers, communicated sense-making in social groups, and digital panopticon/dataveillance.
https://t.co/ce0fO23v51
New in HCR: In a 3-week longitudinal study, Breves et al. (2025) show that body-positive influencer content (vs. fitspirational content) fostered stronger parasocial relationships and increased wishful identification and body satisfaction over time.
https://t.co/X3hk2kWVrd
New in HCR: Across two experiments, Appel et al. (2025) show that congeniality bias persisted regardless of fiction vs. non-fiction labeling, emerging for positive portrayals but not for negative ones, with non-fiction slightly preferred overall.
Read: https://t.co/TadBqbCkOq
New in HCR: @wliao229, Ya-Ching Lee, @haoning_xue, and @EmilyKMcKinley find that AI use (N = 2,187) is driven by self-agency and machine-communion, highlighting how trait perceptions operate within relational schemas and evolve with trust over time. Read: https://t.co/f9cpW4rxDg
New in HCR: Meier & Masur (2025) study the "digital panopticon" via a 3-wave longitudinal experiment. While dataveillance links to privacy resignation between-person, critical privacy literacy is the key within-person predictor of self-inhibition.
Read: https://t.co/VjBFdP8HFU
📢 New in HCR by @R_AmandaCooper & @alice_fanari:
Returning Christian missionaries use metaphors, memorable messages & personification filtered through Christian in-group vernacular to make sense of their experiences and post-missionary identity.
Read: https://t.co/rY7lxftO1X
📢 New in HCR by @y_anthony_chen & @catalina_toma:
Two preregistered experiments show Instagram self-presentation is self-affirming and, when it comes before upward social comparison, can buffer envy; well-being effects may depend on activity sequence.
https://t.co/mSFGUdDVME
📢 New in HCR: Influencers can mobilize!
In two experiments and a field study, influencer posts with collective response efficacy increased collective efficacy beliefs and action intentions, especially among followers with strong parasocial bonds.
Read: https://t.co/MIohOdIYjT
📢 New in HCR by @JanaDreston and @AndreasNanz:
Both intentional search and accidental exposure to election info on social media boost political knowledge—but don’t improve vote-choice alignment. Intentional seekers just feel more confident.
Read: https://t.co/RqFW34fFbP
📢 New in HCR! Vol. 51, Issue 4 (Oct 2025)!
Studies on intellectual humility, AI imaginaries, media parenting, gender and sexist behavior, political communication, identity, and parent-child conversations about mental health.
Read the full issue here: https://t.co/pCPzZ4XhKf
📢 New in HCR:
“What do people watch under adversity?"
Netflix viewing histories with diary data show no evidence that daily adversity predicts content choice. Instead, coping strategies shape genre preferences.
🔗 https://t.co/9DriuFiPaB
#Coping#MoodManagement#DiaryData
⏰ Deadline Day!
🚨 Don't forget to submit your extended abstract to HCR's Special Issue: "Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts."
📌 Due: Sep 15, 2025
👤 Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (UPenn)
🔗 https://t.co/yweTTxhu4M
⏰ 10 days left!
Submit your extended abstract to Human Communication Research's Special Issue, "Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts."
📌Abstracts due: Sept 15, 2025
Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (UPenn)
🔗 https://t.co/yweTTxgWfe