Considering organizations as a unique interpersonal context for deception detection: A meta‐analytic review

This article challenges current interpersonal deception literature by summarizing seven studies that examined the ability of members to detect deception in the context of organizational processes. The combined effect (r = .472) indicated that organizational members are able to differentiate honest from dishonest communicators. According to the Binomial Effect Size Display, observers correctly classified honest or dishonest communication in approximately three of four circumstances (73.6%). This finding is important for situations such as employment interviews or other circumstances when organizational members or constituents need to assess the accuracy of information provided by current or potential members. The theoretical implications for interpersonal and organizational deception research are discussed along with the practical ramifications of this study for employment interviewing, manager/employee communication, and retail sales.     

Applying social science research to film ratings: A shift from offensiveness to harmful effects

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) provides ratings for the majority of commercially released films. The MPAA system is based largely on estimates of what types of film content may be offensive to most parents. We identify four assumptions that underlie the current rating system and show how these assumptions are inconsistent with social science research regarding the impact of media portrayals on young viewers. Finally, we offer an alternative scheme based on what is harmful to children rather than what is offensive to parents.     

Communication and our environment: Categorizing research in environmental advocacy

Marketplace advocacy campaigns often arise in response to burgeoning societal concerns, especially those faced by energy industries. These campaigns may be launched by a single sponsor or by an industry trade group representing the collective interests of the industry sector. Using focus groups, this research explored how lay audiences with little knowledge of the topic being advocated responded to similar energy-focused marketplace advocacy messages when presented by a corporation versus an industry trade group, research which has potentially significant implications for how corporations allocate communication resources as well as for environmental groups attempting to combat certain industry initiatives. Specifically, this study explored audience response to marketplace advocacy messages when communicated via a corporation versus an industry trade group in two common contexts: (1) ads designed to build support for an industry category and (2) ads designed to build support for a specific, controversial industry initiative. Findings were analyzed through theoretical frameworks in persuasion knowledge and attribution theory. A model is introduced that integrates these perceptions and highlights the study's key findings.     

Belonging in science classrooms: Investigating its relation to students' contributions and influence in knowledge building

Meaningful participation in science and engineering practices requires that students make their thinking visible to others and build on one another's ideas. But sharing ideas with others in small groups and classrooms carries social risk, particularly for students from nondominant groups and communities. In this paper, we explore how students' perceptions of classrooms shape their contributions to classroom knowledge building in science across a wide range of classrooms. We examine the claim that when students feel a sense of belonging in class, they contribute more and perceive their ideas to be more influential in knowledge building. Data comes from classroom exit tickets (n = 10,194) administered in 146 classrooms as part of a 10-state field test of a new middle-school science curriculum, OpenSciEd, which were analyzed using mixed effects models. We found that students' sense of belonging predicted the degree to which they contributed ideas out loud in class (Odds ratio = 1.57) as well as the degree to which they perceived their contributions as influencing others (Odds ratio = 1.53). These relationships were particularly strong for students who reported a lower a sense of belonging. We also found significant differences by both race and gender in whether students said they contributed and believed their ideas influenced those of others. These findings suggest that a learner's sense of belonging in class and willingness to contribute may be mutually reinforcing, highlighting the need to promote content-specific strategies to foster belonging in ways that support collaborative knowledge building.     

Telecommunications and Cable

Ken Marsh's Independent Video (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974—$7.95, paper)

Richard H. Davis and Allen E. Edwards' Television: A Therapeutic Tool for the Aged (Publication and Media Projects, Andrus Gerontology Center, University Park, Los Angeles, Calif. 90007—$2.25, paper)

Irving W. Larson (ed.) EIA Electronics Multimedia Handbook (Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams, 1975—price not known, paper)

Kendall Webster Sessions' 2nd Class FCC Encyclopedia (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975—$10.95/7.95)

Mary Louise Hollowell (ed.) Cable Handbook: 1975-1976—A Guide to Cable and New Communications Technologies (Communications Press, 1346 Connecticutt Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036—$7.35, including postage, paper)

Gilbert Gillespie's Public Access Cable Television in the United States and Canada (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975—price not given, but likely around $12.00 or so)     

Media Related Books

Richard Griffith's The Movie Stars (Doubleday $25.00, $19.95 before Christmas, and $11.95 from the Literary Guild or Mainstroam Book Clubs)

Bernard Rosenberg and Harry Silverstein, The Real Tinsel (Macmillan, $9.95)

Andrew Sarris' Confessions of a Cultist: On The Cinema, 1955-69 (Simon and Schuster, $9.95, also available in paperback edition)

P. Adams Sitney's Film Culture Reader (Praeger, $4.95)

Anthony Schillaci and John M. Culkin's edited collection Films Deliver (Citation Press book 1583, $5.25)

International Film Guide Series     

4. ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Dorothy Ganfield Fowler's Unmailable: Congress and the Post Office (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1977- $14.50)

Current Developments in CATV and Pay Television (Practising Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019—$20.00, paper, with discounts if adopted in quantity for class use).

Broadcasting and the Government: A Status Report prepared by the Relations and Legal Departments of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB, 1771 N St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20036—free on request)

Allen Hyman and M. Bruce Johnson, eds., Advertising and Free Speech (Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books [D.C. Heath] , 1977—$12.50     

General Mass Communications

Rudy Bretz' A Taxonomy of Communication Media (Educational Technology Publications, 140 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 07632, $4.95)

Donald F. Theall's The Ledium is the Rear View Mirror: Understanding McLuhan (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, $2.65 paperback)

John Hohenberg's Free Press/Free People: The Best Cause (Columbia University Press, $9.95)

Robert Cirino's Don't Blame Me: How the News Media Use Bias, Distortion and Censorship to Manipulate Public Opinion. (Diversity Press, Box 45764, Los Angeles 90045, $2.95 paperback)

Barbara J. Love (ed.) Foremost qomen in Comunications: A Biographical Work on Accomplished Women in Broadcasting, Publishing, Advertising, Public Relations, and Allied Professions. (Foremost American Publishing co./R.R. Bowker, $25.00)

Robert L. Breeden (chief ed.) Those Inventive Afcricans (National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. 20036, $4.25)

Black Comnunicator (Suite 405, 1730 11 St. NU, Washington D.C., 20036, $5.00 annually)

Arthur R. Miller's The Assault on Privacy: Coaputers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (University of Michigan Press, $7.95)

George Katona, Burkhard Strumpel and Ernest Zahn's Aspirations and Affluence (McGraw-Hill, $12.95)     

Media and Media Related

Ronald Gottesman and Harry Geduld (eds.) Guidebook to Film: An Eleven-in-One Reference (New York: Holt, Rinehart &; Winston, 1972 – ,$6.95/3.95)

C. Edward Wall (ed.) Multi Media Reviews Index: 1970 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1971 – $19.50)

Dorothy I. Weil's (ed.) The American Film Institute's Guide to College Film Courses 1971-72 (Chicago: American Library Association, 1972 – $3.50, paper)

Raymond Fielding's The Technique of Special Effects Cinematography (New York: Hastings House, 1972 – $18.50)     

Photography

Barbara Rosenblum's Photographers at Work: A Sociology of Photographic Styles (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1978—$19.50)

Tom Grimm's The Basic Darkroom Book (New York: NAL?Plume Books, 1978—$7.95, paper)