Human Communication Research

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: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

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: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

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: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

📢 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: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

📢 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. doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

📢 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: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

📢 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: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

📢 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: academic.oup.com/hcr/issue/51/4

📢 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. 🔗 academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-ar… #Coping #MoodManagement #DiaryData

New editorial note out in Human Communication Research @HCR_Journal. doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

⏰ 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) 🔗 academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/caus…

⏰ 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) 🔗 academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/caus…

⏰ 21 days left! Don't miss HCR's special issue, "Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts." Extended abstracts due Sept 15, 2025. Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (University of Pennsylvania) 🔗 Full details: academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/caus…

New in HCR! What makes AI valuable in organizations? Emma Christensen’s ethnographic study examines how AI is constituted as valuable in organizations through communicative practices that mobilize sociotechnical imaginaries and expectations. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

🚨Call for Papers – HCR🚨 Special Issue: Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (University of Pennsylvania) 📌 Abstracts due: September 15, 2025 📝 Full papers due: March 2026 academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/caus…

New HCR study out now! A study by Jane Shawcroft & Drew P. Cingel identifies 5 media parenting profiles across 4 world regions. Findings show that culture shapes how parenting styles affect adolescent well-being — no one-size-fits-all. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hq…

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Special Issue Now Available from Human Communication Research (HCR)! Theme: Communication and the Self: Past, Present & Future Guest Editors: Dr. Markus Appel & Dr. Amanda Holmstrom Read here: academic.oup.com/hcr/issue/51/3 #CommunicationResearch #HumanCommResearch #HCRSpecialIssue

Dr. Eun-Ju Lee wins the ICA Outstanding Article Award for her HCR article: "Minding the Source: Toward an Integrative Theory of Human–Machine Communication" A must-read for those studying HMC & AI academic.oup.com/hcr/article/50… #ICA25 #HCR #HumanMachineCommunication #AICommunication