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Joseph N. Cappella
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 195
Citations - 12597
Joseph N. Cappella is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smoking cessation & Public opinion. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 190 publications receiving 11216 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph N. Cappella include National Institutes of Health & Annenberg Public Policy Center.
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Does Disagreement Contribute to More Deliberative Opinion
TL;DR: This article examined whether disagreement in political conversation contributes to opinion quality, specifically, whether it expands one's understanding of others' perspectives, and found that exposure to disagreement does indeed contribute to people's ability to generate reasons, and in particular reasons why others might disagree with the opinions expressed by the speaker.
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News Frames, Political Cynicism, and Media Cynicism
TL;DR: The authors show that subtle changes in the way news stories are framed can affect consumers' responses, activating their cynicism when strategic or conflict-oriented frames are used, and imply that cynicism about the news media may be an indirect consequence.
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Talk and Silence Sequences in Informal Conversations III: Interspeaker Influence
Joseph N. Cappella,Sally Planalp +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed 12 dyadic conversations for interspeaker influence, with the use of time series regression procedures, and showed that moment-to-moment influences are present in both versions of the data, and these influences differ from dyad to dyad, and the influences are both positive (matching) and negative (compensating).
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Mutual influence in expressive behavior: adult--adult and infant--adult dyadic interaction.
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Argument Repertoire as a Reliable and Valid Measure of Opinion Quality: Electronic Dialogue During Campaign 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a new measure of opinion quality called argument repertoire (AR) is introduced and evaluated, which refers to relevant reasons that one has for one's own opinions and the relevant reasons others with opposite opinions might have.