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Michael T. Stephenson

Michael T. Stephenson

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Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
8509
World Ranking
8461
National Ranking
4525

Overview

Michael T. Stephenson is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans across several areas mainly within Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, focusing particularly on Language and Linguistics, Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Psychology.

Their work explores key topics including EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies, as well as Communication in Education and Healthcare. They have also contributed to research in Higher Education Studies, School Choice and Performance, Evaluation of Teaching Practices, and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies.

Michael T. Stephenson has published research in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include ELT Journal, Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory & Practice, Applied Linguistics, Palynology, and Language and Education.

Their recent papers are:

  • Organizing talk in group speaking tests: learning from high-scoring students, 2020, ELT Journal
  • A Quasiexperimental Analysis of First-Year Seminar Outcomes at a Large University, 2021, Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory & Practice
  • Securing affiliation and managing disagreement: Epistemic primacy claims in group-based L2 oral assessments, 2024, Applied Linguistics
  • Large language models in palynological taxonomy: a pilot study, 2025, Palynology
  • Group-based assessments and L2 interactional competence: test-takers' practices for re-aligning to the assessment task, 2025, Language and Education

Throughout their career, Michael T. Stephenson has collaborated with several co-authors, including Graham Hall, Rajeeb Das, Erika Schmitt, Spencer Hazel, and Chen Shen.

Best Publications

  • Reliability and validity of a brief measure of sensation seeking

    Rick H Hoyle;Michael T Stephenson;Philip Palmgreen;Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch

  • Brief measures of sensation seeking for screening and large-scale surveys

    Michael T Stephenson;Rick H Hoyle;Philip Palmgreen;Michael D Slater

  • Structural Equation Modeling in the Communication Sciences, 1995–2000

    R. Lance Holbert;Michael T. Stephenson

  • Television campaigns and adolescent marijuana use: tests of sensation seeking targeting.

    Philip Palmgreen;Lewis Donohew;Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch;Rick H. Hoyle

  • The Importance of Indirect Effects in Media Effects Research: Testing for Mediation in Structural Equation Modeling

    R. Lance Holbert;Michael T. Stephenson

  • Further Evidence That Psychological Reactance Can Be Modeled as a Combination of Anger and Negative Cognitions

    Brian L. Quick;Michael T. Stephenson

  • Examining the Role of Trait Reactance and Sensation Seeking on Perceived Threat, State Reactance, and Reactance Restoration

    Brian L. Quick;Michael T. Stephenson

  • Examining the Decision to Talk with Family About Organ Donation: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management

    Walid A. Afifi;Susan E. Morgan;Michael Stephenson;Christopher Morse

  • A Monte Carlo Simulation of Observable Versus Latent Variable Structural Equation Modeling Techniques

    Michael T. Stephenson;R. Lance Holbert

  • Facts versus `Feelings': How Rational Is the Decision to Become an Organ Donor?

    Susan E. Morgan;Michael T. Stephenson;Tyler R. Harrison;Walid A. Afifi

  • Sensation seeking, perceived message sensation value, personal involvement, and processing of anti-marijuana PSAs

    Michael T. Stephenson;Philip Palmgreen

  • Associations Between Message Features and Subjective Evaluations of the Sensation Value of Antidrug Public Service Announcements

    Susan E. Morgan;Philip Palmgreen;Michael T. Stephenson;Rick H. Hoyle

  • In Their Own Words: The Reasons Why People Will (Not) Sign an Organ Donor Card

    Susan E. Morgan;Tyler R. Harrison;Walid A. Afifi;Shawn D. Long

  • Fear, threat, and perceptions of efficacy from frightening skin cancer messages.

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  • Perceived message sensation value (PMSV) and the dimensions and validation of a PMSV scale.

    Philip Palmgreen;Michael T. Stephenson;Maureen W. Everett;John R. Baseheart

  • Risk Perception and Decision-making Processes in Candidates for Genetic Testing for Huntington's Disease: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

    Jonathan A. Smith;Susan Michie;Mike Stephenson;Oliver Quarrell

  • Carver and White's (1994) BIS/BAS scales and their relationship to risky health behaviours

    Danielle C. Voigt;James Price Dillard;Kurt Howard Braddock;Jason Wayne Anderson

  • Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Marijuana Initiative Campaign on high-sensation-seeking adolescents.

    Philip Palmgreen;Elizabeth P. Lorch;Michael T. Stephenson;Rick H. Hoyle

  • Commentary on the uses and misuses of structural equation modeling in communication research.

    R. Lance Holbert;Michael T. Stephenson

  • Examining Adolescents' Responses to Antimarijuana PSAs

    Michael T. Stephenson

Frequent Co-Authors

Walid A. Afifi
Walid A. Afifi University of California, Santa Barbara
Rick H. Hoyle
Rick H. Hoyle Duke University
Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch
Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch University of Kentucky
Marco Yzer
Marco Yzer University of Minnesota
James Price Dillard
James Price Dillard Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan A. Smith
Jonathan A. Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Rick S. Zimmerman
Rick S. Zimmerman Wayne State University

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