Generalizability in Communication Research

By Michael A. Shapiro. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Does Cultural Difference Affect Customer’s rEsponse in a Crowded Restaurant Environment? a Comparison of American Versus Chinese Customers (2010, background): “Particularly in examining reflexive psychological processes, Shapiro (2002) stated that there is no particular reason to expect significant differences among adult respondents.”
Designing Experiments That Generalize (2009, background): “Focusing on the surface similarity between an experimental situation and an organizational situation often misses the point (Cook & Campbell, 1979; Shapiro, 2002).”
Implications of Pro- and Counterattitudinal Information Exposure for Affective Polarization (2014, background): “Shapiro (2002) argued that while replication for its own sake is often futile, scholars should engage in “boundary search” (p. 478), attempting to replicate the existing theories and findings exactly in the contexts under which these theories should not work.”
A Social Skill Account of Problematic Internet Use (2005, background): “Although future studies should begin to specify the theoretical boundaries of the model presented above, results from a student sample are useful for initial hypothesis testing and theory building, especially when examining multivariate relationships(6) (Calder et al., 1981; Basil, Brown, & Bocarnea”
Active-Empathic Listening as a General Social Skill: Evidence from Bivariate and Canonical Correlations (2011, background): “First, although not agreeing with all of his conclusions, Sears (1986) noted the possibility of bias in using college student samples and noted that claims to external validity are problematic when using college student samples (cf. Shapiro, 2002).”
Effects of Goal Framing and Emotions on Perceived Threat and Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Change (2017, background): “Since we were interested in mechanisms of framing effects in climate communication, generalizability is of limited concern (Shapiro, 2002).”
Theory and measurement of generalized problematic Internet use: A two-step approach (2010, background): “As Shapiro (2002) notes ‘‘if a study detected an important effect, no matter what kind of sample is used, it is clearly true for some group of people, in some setting, at some time, for some message.”
What does the brand say? Effects of brand feedback to negative eWOM on brand trust and purchase intentions (2018, background): “However, by trying to find causal relationships between variables and underlying principles the study contributes toward a better understanding of variables and their relationship with each other, which in turn can allow scholars to arrive at more meaningful generalizability (Shapiro 2002).”