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Syllabus and Outline
COMMUNICATION 750
Communication and Emotion
Thursdays 7:00-9:40
Fall 2013
Instructor:
Office:
Office Hours:
email.
Peter Andersen
Communication 220
Wednesday 3:00-4:00; Thursday 4:00-5:00, 6:00-7:00 or via
Mobile Phone & email: 619-857-4222, peterand@mail.sdsu.edu
Best method of contact is email. The cell phone is for important, urgent calls.
Textbooks:
Andersen, P. A. & Guerrero, L. K. (1998). Handbook of Communication and
Emotion: Research, Theory, Applications and Contexts. San Diego, CA:
Academic Press.(Abbreviated AG in reading lists). Available at Aztec Shops.
Reading Packet at Cal Copy (Over the bridge across College Avenue). Just ask
at the desk for the number of the class and Andersen.
Please do all reading prior to the class covering that topic.
Assignments
Presentations
Class Participation
Research Proposal
Research Paper
Peer Evaluation
Final Exam
Due Dates
TBA
TBA
Oct. 3
Dec. 5
Dec. 12
Dec. 12
Percentage of Grade
20%
5%
10%
30%
10%
25%
ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE THE ORIGINAL WORK OF THE AUTHOR. TO
AVOID PLAGERISM, CITE ALL WORK AND ALL IDEAS THAT ARE NOT
YOUR OWN. LIKEWISE, ANY NOTES OR ASSISTANCE DURING AN EXAM
CONSTITUTES CHEATING. CHEATING OR PLAGERISM WILL RESULT IN AN
F IN THE COURSE! NEARLY EVERY SEMESTER I FAIL A GRADUATE
STUDENT FOR PLAGIARISM. Don’t be that person!!! SEE THE LONGER
STATEMENT ON PLAGIARISM AT THE END OF THIS SYLLABUS.
Papers: Papers must be:
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Typed and double spaced.
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Have a standard title page.
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Be the original work of the student.
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In APA style
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Presentations
Each week we will be class with a presentation that covers the material for that
week. Be creative. The presentation can consist of skits, role plays, movie clips,
music, interactive games, quizzes or whatever. Just be sure it introduced the
content for that week in a 15-25 minute segment. DO NOT summarize the
required readings-your job is to get new material.
Questions
To institutionalize more interaction (and reading), each member of the seminar
will prepare one question from the readings to ask our group. These should be
quick journalistic-type questions like a CNN reporter would use following a
presentation
The State of Art paper option. (one of two options for the research paper).
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The State of the Art is a comprehensive summary of the literature on
subarea of communication and emotion. Each of the chapters in the
Handbook is an excellent example of a State of the Art paper. The end
product should be an exhaustive summary of all the literature in a given
subarea that is so thorough that it could be submitted to a conference.
Here are some additional guidelines and suggestions:
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This paper should be sole authored.
Research proposal is due October 3. This should include a very extensive
set of references and an outline of the paper.
The paper should conclude with a summary of the prior findings and a set
of suggestions for future research.
Do not select too large an area because your goal is a comprehensive
summary.
One way to narrow down the paper is to select a particular emotion,
practice, or a type of communication.
Integrate the findings of all the studies you review. DO NOT simply
summarize studies sequentially.
Consult with you professor extensively during all phase of the project.
See the guidelines for all papers earlier in the syllabus.
One option is to update an existing chapter.
Final paper is due December 5.
For data based papers contact me to obtain any extension beyond this
date!
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The Empirical Study Option (another option for the research paper)
The empirical study is complete, empirical, coauthored, data-based research
study comprised of four sections.
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A thorough but focused literature review that leads to testable hypotheses
and or research questions.
A methods section consisting of subsections on participants, procedures,
measures, and analyses.
A results section providing your qualitative and/or qualitative findings.
A discussion section that summarizes the results, integrates finding with
prior research, discusses practical and theoretical implications, provides
implications of the findings, discusses limitations, and discusses
suggestions for future research.
Here are some additional guidelines for the empirical study.
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Get started early! Pick a partner today and begin to think about topics
asap. Brainstorm with your instructor.
Once you decide on your topic you should communicate with the
Institutional Review Board to get approval for the use of human subjects
and complete any appropriate paperwork.
Talk frequently with your instructor to brainstorm topics, sharpen your
hypotheses, and decide on methods.
If you chose to do a quantitative study I will work with you individually on
the data collection, data entry, and data analysis.
Your research proposal is due on October 3rd. It should include a fairly
complete literature review, hypotheses or research questions, and the
outline of a methods section.
An A study would be of sufficient quality to submit to a communication
conference.
The completed Study is due December 4th.
Schedule, Outline, and Readings
Week 1: August 29
Introduction to Communication and Emotions: What is an emotion? What are
moods, affect, the circumplex model, prototypes, the evolution of emotions,
mimicry, the role of the brain in emotion. Selections of partners and topics.
Readings:
Preface AG, Dillard, The role of affect in communication, biology, and social
relationships.
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Chapter 1: AG, Guerrero, Andersen & Trost, Communication and emotion: Basic
concepts and approaches.
Lakin, J. L., Jefferis, V. E., Cheng, C. M., & Chartrand, T. L. (2003). The
chameleon effect as social glue: Evidence for the evolutionary significant
of nonconscious mimicry. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 27, 145-161.1A
Rizzolatti, G. & Craighero, L. (2004). The mirror neuron system. Annual Review
of Neuroscience, 27, 169-192. 1B
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/video/mirror-neurons-help-usidentify-emotion-in-faces.html
Week 2: September 5
The Communication Turn: Are emotions inherently communicative? Are they
private or communicative? Are there cultural emotions? What is the balance of
culture and evolution and how do they work together. How does culture/learning
teach emotional experience and expression?
Readings:
Chapter 3: AG, Andersen & Guerrero, Principles of communication and emotion
in social interaction.
Chapter 17: AG, Porter & Samovar, Cultural influences on emotional expression:
Implications for intercultural communication.
Andersen. P. A. (2008). Nonverbal communication of emotion. Chapter 7 in
Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (2nd Edition). Long
Grove, Il: Waveland Press. 2A
Planalp, S. (2003). The unacknowledged role of emotion in theories of close
relationships: How do theories feel? Communication Theory, 13, 78-99.
2B
Week 3: September 12
The Prime Channel of Emotion, The Face: Communicative or Expressive?
Universal or Culture Specific? Automatic or conscious?
Matsumoto, D. (2006). Culture and nonverbal behavior. In V. Manusov & M. L.
Patterson (Eds.). The Sage Handbook of Nonverbal Communication, (pp.
219-235). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 3A
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Elfenbein, H. G. (2013). Nonverbal dialects and accents in facial expressions of
emotion. Emotion Review, 5, 90-96. 3B
Sonnby-Bergstrom, M. (2006).Social Cognition Imitation and attachment based
strategy for emotion regulation. Svensk Neuropsykologi, 2, 12-14 3C
Schmidt, K. L. & Cohn, J. F. (2001). Human facial expression as adaptations:
Evolutionary questions in facial expression research. Yearbook of Physical
Anthropology, 44, 3-24. 3D
Erickson, K., & Schulkin, J. (2003). Facial expressions of emotion: A cognitive
neuroscience perspective. Brain and Cognition, 52, 52-60. 3E
Parkinson, B. (2005). Do facial movements express emotions or communicate
motives? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 278-311. 3F
Week 4: September 18
Multiple Modes of Emotional Communication: Verbal, vocal, gestural, and
bodily expressions of emotion.
Readings:
Chapter 2: AG, Planalp, Communicating emotion in everyday life: Cues,
channels, and processes.
Pitterman, H. & Nowicki, S. (2004). A test of the ability to identify emotion in
human standing and sitting postures: The diagnostic analysis of the
nonverbal accuracy-2 posture test (DANVA2-POS). Genetic, Social and
General Psychology Monographs, 130, 146-162. 4A
Juslin, P. N. & Laukka, P. (2003). Communication of emotions in vocal
expression and music performance: Different channels, same code?
Psychological Bulletin,129, 770-814. 4B
Hertenstein, M. J., Holmes, R., McCollough, M. & Keltner, D., (2009). Emotion, 9,
566-573. 4C
Week 5: September 25
The Self-Conscious, Social Emotions: Shame, Guilt, Hurt, Pride, and
Embarrassment. Also: the emotionality of labor or emotional labor.
Readings:
Chapter 4: AG, Bradford & Petronio, Strategic embarrassment: The culprit of
emotion.
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Chapter 5: AG, Vangelisti & Sprague, Guilt and hurt, Similarities, distinctions, and
conversational strategies.
Costa, M., Dinsbach, W., Manstead, A. S. R., & Bitti, P. E. R. (2001). Social
presence, embarrassment, and nonverbal behavior. Journal of Nonverbal
Behavior, 25, 225-240. 5A
Hall, J. A. (2010). Is it something I said? Sense of humor and partner
embarrassment. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 28, 383405. 5B
Scarnier, M., Schmader, T., & Lickel, B. (2009). Parental shame and guilt:
Distinguishing emotional responses to a child’s wrongdoing. Personal
Relationships, 16, 205-220. 5C
Tracy, J. L. Robins, R. W. & Lagattuta, K. H. (2005). Can children recognize
pride? Emotion, 5, 251-257. 5D
Tracy, S. J. (2005). Locking up emotion: Moving beyond dissonance for
understanding emotional labor discomfort. Communication Monographs,
72, 261-283. 5E
Lutgen-Sandvik, P., Riforgiate, S., & Fletcher, C. (2011). Work as a source of
positive emotional experience and the discourses informing positive
assessment. Western Journal of Communication, 75, 2-27, 5F
Week 6: October 2
Jealousy: A powerful social and relational emotion.
Chapter 6: AG, Guerrero & Andersen, Jealousy experience and expression in
romantic relations.
Andersen, P.A., Eloy, S.V., Guerrero, L.K. & Spitzberg, B.H. (1995).
Romantic jealousy and relational satisfaction: A look at the impact of
jealousy experience and expression. Communication Reports, 8,
77-85. 6A
Guerrero, L.K. & Andersen, P.A. (1998) The dark side of Jealousy. In
B.H. Spitzberg & W.R. Cupach. The Dark Side of Close
Relationships. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 6B
Marshall, T. C., Bejanyan, K., Di Castro, G., & Lee, R. (2013). Attachment
styles as predictors of Facebook-related jealousy and surveillance
in romantic relationships, Personal Relationships, 20, 1-22. 6C
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Elphinston, R. A., Feeney, J. A., Noller, P., Connor, J. P. & Fitzgerald, J.
(2013). Romantic Jealousy and Relationship Satisfaction: The
Costs of Rumination. Western Journal of Communication, 77, 293304. 6D
Week 7: October 9
Warmth: The Emotional Basis of Interpersonal Relationships: Affection,
Attachment, Love, Intimacy and Affiliation.
Chapter 11: AG, Andersen & Guerrero, The bright side of relational
communication: Interpersonal warmth as a social emotion.
Chapter 12: AG, Loving and liking, Taraban, Hendrick, & Hendrick.
Chapter 18: AG, Emotion, attachment, and satisfaction in close relationships.
Chapter 19: AG, Communication of emotions in friendships.
Owren, M. J. & Bachorowski, J. (2003). Reconsidering the evolution of
nonlinguistic communication: The case of laughter. Journal of Nonverbal
Behavior, 27, 183-200. 7A
Ruis-Belda, M.-A., Fernandez-Dols, J.-M., Carrera, P., & Barchard, K. (2003).
Spontaneous facial expressions of happy bowlers and soccer fans.
Cognition and Emotion, 17, 315-326. 7B
Floyd, K., Pauley, P. M., & Hesse, C. (2010). State and trait affectionate
communication buffer adult’s stress reactions. Communication
Monographs, 77, 618-636. 7C
Week 8: October 16
Emotional Messages of Influence: Persuasion, and deception.
Chapter 14: AG, Buller & Burgoon, Emotional expression in the deception
process.
Chapter 15: AG, Jorgensen, Affect, persuasion, and the communication process.
Chapter 20: AG, Wilson & Smith, Children’s responses to emotional portrayals on
television
Segrin, C. (1993). The effects of nonverbal behavior on the outcome of
compliance-gaining attempts. Communication Studies, 44, 169-187. 8A
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Andersen. P. A. (2008). Nonverbal communication of emotion. Chapter 10 in
Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (2nd Edition). Long
Grove, Il: Waveland Press 8B
Gerend, M. A, & Maner, J. K. (2011). Fear, Anger, Fruits, and Veggies:
Interactive Effects of Emotion and Message Framing on Health Behavior.
Health Psychology, 30, 420-423. 8C
Horan, S. M. & Booth-Butterfield, M. (2010). Is it worth lying for? Physiological
and emotional implications of recalling deceptive affection. Human
Communication Research, 37, 78-106. 8D
Week 9: October 23
The Melancholic Emotions: Sadness, Loneliness, & Depression.
Chapter 8: AG, Segrin, Interpersonal communication problems associated with
depression and loneliness.
Najib, A., Lorberbaum, J. P., Kose, S., Bohning, D. E. & George, M. S. (2004).
Regional brain activity in women grieving a romantic relationship breakup.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 2245-2256. 9A
Ambady, N. & Gray, H. M. (2002). On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on
the accuracy of thin-slice judgments. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 83, 947-961. 9B
Knobloch, L. K., Knobloch-Ferrers & Durbin, C. E. (2011). Depressive symptoms
and relational uncertainty as predictors of reassurance-seeking and
negative feedback seeking in conversation, Communication Monographs,
78, 437-462. 9C
Week 10: October 31 (Halloween: Costumes Optional)
The Dark Emotions: Anger, Disgust, and Fear
Chapter 7: AG, Canary, Spitzberg, & Semic, The experience and expression of
anger in interpersonal settings.
Chapter 16: AG, Witte, Fear as motivator, fear as inhibitor, using the extended
parallel process model to explain fear appeal successes and failures.
Week 11: November 6
Sexual Desire: Do lust and sexual arousal qualify as emotions? Examining
the bright and dark side of sexual feelings.
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Chapter 13: Metts, Sprecher, & Regan, Communication and sexual desire.
Ben_Zeev, A. (2008) In the name of love: A philosopher looks at our deepest
emotions. Psychology Today Downloaded June 15, 2013 11A
Bonanno, G., Keltner, D., Noll, J. G., Putnam, F. W., Trickett, P. K., & LeJune, J.
(2002). When the face reveals what words do not: Facial expression of
emotion, smiling, and the willingness to disclose childhood sexual abuse.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 94-110. 11B
Guerrero, L. K., Andersen, P. A. & Afifi, W. (2014).Chapter 9 in Close
Encounters: Communication in Relationships (4th Edition). Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.11C
Ein-Dor, T. & Hirschberger, G. (2012). Sexual healing: Daily diary evidence that
sex relieves stress for men and women in satisfying relationships. Journal
of Social and Personal Relationships, 29, 126-139. 11D
Week 12: November 13
Emotional Intelligence
Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., Caruso, D. R., & Sitarenios, G. (2001). Emotional
intelligence as a standard intelligence. Emotion, 1, 232-242. 12A
Elfenbein, H. A., Foo, M. D., Mandal, M., Biswal, R., Eisenkraft, N., Lim, A., and
Sharma, S. (2010). Individual differences in the accuracy of expressing
and perceiving nonverbal cues: New data on an old question. Journal of
Research in Personality, 44, 199-206. 12B
Schnall, S. & Larid, J. D. (2003). Keep smiling: Enduring effects of facial
expressions and postures on emotional experience and memory.
Cognition and Emotion, 17, 787-797. 12C
Sternglanz, R. W. & DePaulo, B. M. (2004). Reading nonverbal cues to
emotions: The advantages and liabilities of relationship closeness. Journal
of Nonverbal Behavior, 28, 245-266. 12D
Halberstadt, A. G. & Eaton, K. L. (2002). A meta-analysis of family
expressiveness and children’s emotional expressiveness and
understanding. Marriage and Family Review, 34, 35-62. 12E
Hesse, C, & Floyd, K. (2011). The impact of alexithymia on initial interactions.
Personal Relationships, 18, 453-470. 12F
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Hesse, C. & Rauscher, E. A. (2013). Privacy tendencies and
revealing/concealing: The moderating role of emotional competence.
Communication Quarterly, 61, 91-112. 12G
Week 13: November 20, No Class: NCA convention in Washington DC
Week 14: November 27, No Class Thanksgiving Break
Week 15: December 5
Comfort and Social Support.
Chapter 9: AG, Burleson & Goldsmith, How the comforting process works:
Alleviating emotional distress through conversationally induced appraisals.
Chapter 10: AG, Barbee, Rowatt, & Cunningham. When a friend is in need:
Feelings about seeking, giving, and receiving social support.
Roter, D. L., Frankel, R. M., Hall, J. A. & Sluyter, D. (2006). The expression of
emotion through nonverbal behavior in medical visits. Journal of General
Internal Medicine, 21, S28-S34. 15A
Zweyer, K., Velker, B., & Ruch, W. (2004). Do cheerfulness, exhilaration, and
humor production moderate pain tolerance? Humor, 17, 85-119. 15B
Scott, A. M., Caughlin, J. P., Donovan-Kitchen, E., Mikucki,-Enyart, S. L. (2013).
Do message features influence responses to depression disclosure? A
message design logics perspective. Western Journal of Communication,
77, 139-163. 15C
Bodie, G. D., Burleson, B. R., Holmstrom, A. J., McCollough, J. D., Rack, J. J.
Hanasomo, L. K., & Rosier, J. G. (2011). Effects of cognitive complexity
and emotional upset on processing supportive messages: Two tests of a
dual process theory of supportive communication outcomes. Human
Communication Research, 37, 350-376. 15D
Week 16: December 12
Final Exam and Peer Evaluation 7-9:30
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Dishonesty:
The faculty takes issues of academic misconduct very seriously and will pursue
severe penalties against those guilty of such acts. If you are not sure what the
University and School of Communication consider to be academic misconduct,
please ask so you don’t find out the hard way.
All sources (including internet sources) used in the preparation of any written
work for this course must be fully cited; otherwise, it is considered plagiarism.
This is true whether direct passages are used or if you are just paraphrasing.
Claiming credit for words or thoughts that are not your own is one type of
academic misconduct. This includes having any name appear on a team
project/paper when that individual did not fully participate in completion of the
project/paper.
Plagiarism is a very serious offense and will minimally result in zero points on
any assignment where plagiarism has taken place. All suspicions of plagiarism
will be turned over to the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities. The
University General Catalog policy states:
Plagiarism is formal work publicly misrepresented as original; it is any activity
wherein one person knowingly, directly, and for lucre, status, recognition, or any
public gain resorts to the published or unpublished work of another in order to
represent it as one’s own. Work shall be deemed plagiarism: (1) when prior work
of another has been demonstrated as the accessible source; (2) when
substantial or material parts of the source have been literally or evasively
appropriated (substance denoting quantity; matter denoting qualitative format or
style); and (3) when the work lacks sufficient or unequivocal citation so as to
indicate or imply that the work was neither a copy nor an imitation. This definition
comprises oral, written, and crafted pieces. In short, if one purports to present an
original piece but copies ideas word for word or by paraphrase, those ideas
should be duly noted. (Lindey, Alexander. Plagiarism and Originality, 1952).
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empowered to certify competence and accomplishment in general and discrete
categories of knowledge. The President and faculty of this University are
therefore obligated not only to society at large but to the citizenry of the State of
California to guarantee honest and substantive knowledge in those to whom they
assign grades and whom they recommend for degrees. Wittingly or willfully to
ignore or to allow students’ ascription of others’ work to themselves is to condone
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Likewise, one must be liable to an appropriate penalty, even severance from the
University and in some cases revocation of an advanced degree, should the
demonstrated plagiarism clearly call into question one’s general competence or
accomplishments.
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