Browsing by Subject "communication"
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Essays on Investor Inattention and Strategic Communication
(2022)This dissertation comprises two chapters studying how information transmitted in the economy and the financial markets becomes compressed in communications and its consequences. In chapter one, the compression is due to ... -
Female swamp sparrows do not show evidence of discriminating between the songs of peak-aged and senescent males
(Ethology, 2021-01-01)Sexual selection theory predicts that females face contrasting selection pressures when choosing the age of their mate. On the one hand, older males have demonstrated their ability to survive and they may be more experienced ... -
Full of Hot Air? Three Examinations of Climate Change in the American Political Information Environment
(2016)Climate change is thought to be one of the most pressing environmental problems facing humanity. However, due in part to failures in political communication and how the issue has been historically defined in American politics, ... -
Lizard Communication
(2015)The evolution of animal signals is driven largely by characteristics of the signaling environment and properties of receiver sensory systems. Selection favors signal traits that increase the probability that a signal will ... -
Patient-provider communication, self-reported medication adherence, and race in a postmyocardial infarction population.
(Patient Prefer Adherence, 2015)OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to: 1) describe patient-reported communication with their provider and explore differences in perceptions of racially diverse adherent versus nonadherent patients; and 2) examine whether the ... -
Sounds and beyond: multisensory and other non-auditory signals in the inferior colliculus.
(Frontiers in neural circuits, 2012-01)The inferior colliculus (IC) is a major processing center situated mid-way along both the ascending and descending auditory pathways of the brain stem. Although it is fundamentally an auditory area, the IC also receives ... -
The Crevice Dwellers: Using Image and Story to Communicate Climate Change
(2013-04-23)Because climate change has become a widely discussed topic, it is important to think about how the scientific knowledge of climate change is received by the general public. Up to this point, science has not always been effective ... -
"What Did They Just Say?": Unexpected Messaging and Political Persuasion
(2018)Political persuasion research has long focused on the various factors of persuasion – source, message, audience, and medium – with partisan identity inevitably being considered the dominant predictor of whether persuasion ...
