123 Citations
Friendship, Trust and Mutuality
- Psychology
- 2007
Some years ago an American political scientist published a book entitled Bowling Alone (Putnam 2000). It attracted considerable media attention at the time — perhaps because the author was critical…
( ASC ) Annenberg School for Communication 2010 Mass Media
- Psychology
- 2019
The way outgroup members are portrayed in the media is widely believed to have consequences for levels of prejudice and stereotyping in the mass public. The visual nature of television and its heavy…
Linguistic Synchrony in Parasocial Interaction
- Psychology
- 2013
This investigation examines the linguistic behavior of audience members replying to the blog posts of television characters. Proponents of communication accommodation theory (Giles, 1973; Giles,…
The Sympathetic Plot, Its Psychological Origins, and Implications for the Evolution of Fiction
- PsychologyEmotion Review
- 2019
The sympathetic plot—featuring a goal-directed protagonist who confronts obstacles, overcomes them, and wins rewards—is ubiquitous. Here, I propose that it recurs because it entertains, engaging two…
The SAGE Handbook of Prejudice , Stereotyping and Discrimination Mass Media
- Psychology
- 2017
The way outgroup members are portrayed in the media is widely believed to have consequences for levels of prejudice and stereotyping in the mass public. The visual nature of television and its heavy…
THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: WHY YOU CAN'T GET A DATE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT AND WHY MOST SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE MUSLIM
- Psychology
- 2007
I propose a new concept of the evolutionary psychological imagination, to replace C. Wright Mills' half-century-old notion of the sociological imagination, as a way to link personal experiences with…
When Good Friends Say Goodbye: A Parasocial Breakup Study
- Psychology
- 2006
This study examines viewers' reactions to parasocial breakup with mediated characters in light of interpersonal and mass communication theories. Following the airing of the last episode of the…
Solutions to the Problem of Diminished Social Interaction
- Psychology
- 2008
Social animals, like humans, need to interact with others, but this is not always possible. When genuine social interaction is lacking, individuals may seek out or use sources of interaction that…
Are the New Mass Media Subverting Cultural Transmission?
- Psychology
- 2012
Popular culture is a subcategory of culture. Today, mass and new media appear to be interfering with the evolved mechanisms that permit the acquisition and editing of culture. We know surprisingly…
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Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community
- Political ScienceCSCW '00
- 2000
Drawing on evidence that includes nearly half a million interviews conducted over a quarter of a century in America, Putnam shows how changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
Core Discussion Networks of Americans
- Sociology
- 1987
Aspects of interpersonal networks in which Americans discuss "important matters" are examined using data from the 1985 General Social Survey. These are the first survey network data representative of…
Gender Differences in Job-Related Networks
- Psychology
- 1988
Despite the conventional wisdom that employed women suffer by dint of their exclusion from “old boy” networks, there has been little investigation of gender differences in networks and their…
The past explains the present: Emotional adaptations and the structure of ancestral environments
- Psychology
- 1990
Evolution and Human Behavior
- BiologyThe Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
- 1967
The large number and variable quality of recent research papers in the field of protein biosynthesis often has made it difficult for readers to discern clearly the experimental basis (or lack…
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
- History
- 1995
After briefly explaining why social capital (civil society) is important to democracy, Putnam devotes the bulk of this chapter to demonstrating social capital’s decline in the United States across…