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Franklin J. Boster
Researcher at Michigan State University
Publications - 88
Citations - 2518
Franklin J. Boster is an academic researcher from Michigan State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Interpersonal communication & Persuasion. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 86 publications receiving 2304 citations. Previous affiliations of Franklin J. Boster include University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of Self-Reported Lies
TL;DR: In this paper, the frequency and distribution of reported lying in the U.S. adult population were investigated. But the results showed that prevalence varies widely and most reported lies are told by a few prolific liars.
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Fear-Arousing Persuasive Messages
TL;DR: In this article, Fear-Arousing Persuasive Messages (FAPS) is defined as "a set of fear-arousing, persuasive, and persuasive messages".
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On Making Progress in Communication Science
TL;DR: This article argued that sophistication, falsification, and replication are important criteria for evaluating research design, diminishing the importance of the null hypothesis statistical significance test, employing confidence intervals, and correcting correlations for both measurement error and range restriction when analyzing data, including both descriptive statistics and measures of the strength of bivariate relationships when reporting results.
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Development and Validation of Value-, Outcome-, and Impression-Relevant Involvement Scales:
Hyunyi Cho,Franklin J. Boster +1 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that items developed for three social issues and two consumer products effectively distinguish the three types of involvement, and impression-relevant involvement was related to attitude extremity.
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The roles of obligation and gratitude in explaining the effect of favors on compliance
Ryan Goei,Franklin J. Boster +1 more
TL;DR: This work advances the study of reciprocal behavior by making conceptual distinctions between obligation and gratitude, and testing these two presumed mediating states in two experiments, demonstrating that obligation and gratefulness can be empirically distinguished.