Jonathan Potter

Jonathan Potter is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans main fields including Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with notable contributions in subfields such as Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their work focuses on several interconnected topics, particularly in language and social interaction. Key topics of their publications include:

• Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
• Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
• Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
• Emotions and Moral Behavior
• Social and Intergroup Psychology
• Cultural Differences and Values
• Forgiveness and Related Behaviors

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jonathan Potter cover diverse aspects of social psychology and language analysis. These include:

• Rethinking attitudes and social psychology - Issues of function, order, and combination in subject-side and object-side assessments in natural settings (2020), published in Qualitative Research in Psychology
• Over-Exposed Self-Correction: Practices for Managing Competence and Morality (2022), published in Research on Language and Social Interaction
• The Visible Politics of Intersubjectivity: Constructing Knowledge as Shared to Manage Resistance in News Interviews (2023), published in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
• The Gratitude Opportunity Space (2021), published in Social Interaction Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
• Understanding mixed emotions in organized helping through emotionography (2023), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Jonathan Potter has frequently collaborated with fellow researchers including Alexa Hepburn, Galina B. Bolden, Kaicheng Zhan, Wan Wei, and Song Hee Park.

Their publications appear regularly in recognized venues such as Patient Education and Counseling, Qualitative Research in Psychology, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, and Frontiers in Psychology.

In addition to journal articles, Jonathan Potter has made contributions to academic books published by different organizations. Noteworthy titles include:

• Discourse and Social Psychology (2020), published by Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
• Innovative studies in organized helping: Transforming relations, emotions and referents through sequentially structured practices (2024), published by Frontiers Media