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Overview

Thomas Holtgraves is affiliated with Ball State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within arts and humanities and psychology, focusing primarily on language, discourse, and communication strategies. The main fields of study represented in their work include Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with a particular emphasis on Language and Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research topics cover diverse areas related to communication and language, including:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Communication in Education and Healthcare
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Holtgraves has published several recent papers, with works covering topics such as the use of emoji and emoticons in communication, speech act recognition in digital contexts, and implicit communication of emotions through text messages. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Emoji can facilitate recognition of conveyed indirect meaning" (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Digitally saving face: An experimental investigation of cross-cultural differences in the use of emoticons and emoji" (2021) published in Journal of Pragmatics
  • "Understanding Miscommunication: Speech Act Recognition in Digital Contexts" (2021) published in Cognitive Science
  • "Implicit communication of emotions via written text messages" (2022) published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports
  • "Microaggressions in Context: Linguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives" (2022) published in Perspectives on Psychological Science

Frequent co-authors in Holtgraves' research include Ky Bray, Caleb Robinson, LaCount J. Togans, Gyeongnam Kwon, and Tania E. Morales Zelaya. They have contributed to multiple collaborative studies demonstrating interdisciplinary connections across pragmatics, language, and social psychology.

In terms of publication venues, their work appears most frequently in the following journals:

  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • PLoS ONE
  • Computers in Human Behavior Reports
  • Cognitive Science
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Best Publications

  • Social Desirability and Self-Reports: Testing Models of Socially Desirable Responding

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • Language As Social Action: Social Psychology and Language Use

    Thomas M. Holtgraves

  • Styles of language use : Individual and cultural variability in conversational indirectness

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • Politeness as universal: Cross-cultural perceptions of request strategies and inferences based on their use.

    Thomas Holtgraves;Yang Joong-nam

  • Evaluating the Problem Gambling Severity Index

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • Interpersonal underpinnings of request strategies: general principles and differences due to culture and gender.

    Thomas Holtgraves;Joong-nam Yang

  • ATTITUDES TOWARD THE MENTALLY ILL: The Effects of Label and Beliefs

    Daniel W. Socall;Thomas Holtgraves

  • The Linguistic Realization of Face Management: Implications for Language Production and Comprehension, Person Perception, and Cross-Cultural Communication

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • Text messaging, personality, and the social context

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • Language, Meaning, and Social Cognition

    Thomas M. Holtgraves;Yoshihisa Kashima

  • Linguistic Power and Persuasion

    Thomas Holtgraves;Benjamin Lasky

  • Language structure in social interaction: perceptions of direct and indirect speech acts and interactants who use them.

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • Yes, but...: Positive Politeness in Conversation Arguments

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • The Oxford handbook of language and social psychology

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  • Communication in context: Effects of speaker status on the comprehension of indirect requests.

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • The Role of Different Markers of Linguistic Powerlessness in Persuasion

    Kevin L. Blankenship;Thomas Holtgraves

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Singleand Multiple-Factor Competing Models of the Dissociative Experiences Scale in a Nonclinical Sample

    Gary D. Stockdale;Betty E. Gridley;Deborah Ware Balogh;Thomas Holtgraves

  • Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Linguistic Politeness

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • The assessment of dissociative experiences in a non-clinical population: reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Dissociative Experiences Scale

    Thomas Holtgraves;Gary Stockdale

  • The Form and Function of Remedial Moves: Reported Use, Psychological Reality and Perceived Effectiveness

    Thomas Holtgraves

  • Perceiving artificial social agents

    T. M. Holtgraves;S. J. Ross;C. R. Weywadt;T. L. Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas K. Srull
Thomas K. Srull University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Howard Giles
Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara
Yoshihisa Kashima
Yoshihisa Kashima University of Melbourne

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