Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The present study explores strategic misrepresentation—the conscious and intentional misrepresentation of characteristics about oneself—of online dating service users. Seven categories of misrepresentation—personal interests, personal assets, relationship goals, personal attributes, past relationships, age, and weight—were examined. Results suggest that self-monitoring--other directed is the strongest and most consistent predictor of misrepresentation, while gender and personality also offer consistent relationships with the categories of misrepresentation.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This pilot study was designed to assess the relationship between love styles, rhetorical sensitivity, and self-monitoring. Five hypotheses were formulated to predict these relationships. Participants (n = 46) were surveyed using Hendrick and Hendrick’s (1986) Love Attitudes Scale, Hart, Carlson, and Eadie’s (1980) Rhetorical Sensitivity measure, and Snyder’s (1974) Self-Monitoring Scale. The hypothesis that predicted a relationship between pragmatic love styles and low self-monitoring was supported.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this study, we extend research on third-person effects from the perceived media effects to the perceptions of media use. The focus of Study 1 was to examine perceived differences in media use for self and others for a variety of media. The third-person effects were found for all media except television, which contradicts prior research. To address this anomaly, Study 2 compared television use with newspaper use and introduced two different manipulations (motivational demand and self-monitoring). Those who monitored their media activity for one week showed no third-person biases for television, compared to a control group which showed findings consistent with past research. This suggests a cognitive, rather than a motivational origin of the effect. The same was not true for newspaper use, however. We also addressed a number of applied issues, such as the added benefits of maintaining a diary and expected degree of participant compliance in maintaining a media diary.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The current study utilized the CPM framework to examine how individuals’ blogging privacy management rules are related to communication-based personality dispositions (self-monitoring skills and concern for enacting socially appropriate interactions). The study also explored the relationship between the same dispositions and blogging frequency. Overall, 356 bloggers completed an online survey instrument. Regression analysis provided support for both hypotheses. Bloggers with higher self-monitoring skills had a more private orientation towards their blogging privacy management practices. Bloggers’ CFA level was related to more public and open blogging permeability rules. High self-monitors and high CFA dispositions were positively related to blogging frequency. Implications of the study to current CMC theory and research is discussed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The present study expected that high self-monitors’ emergence as group leaders would be mediated by engaging in more communication behavior congruent with the group’s goal than low self-monitors. Results indicated that high self-monitors felt more leader-like than low self-monitors even though other members disagreed with their self-perceptions. Although high and low self-monitors communicated goal-congruent messages to an equal extent, these messages helped low but not high self-monitors to emerge as leaders.