Selected Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications by Area of Interest (2002-Present)

Traditional Political Communication

Holbert, R. L., Garrett, R. K., & Gleason, L S. (in press). A new era of minimal effects? A response to Bennett and Iyengar. Journal of Communication.

Holbert, R. L., & Benoit, W. L. (2009). A theory of political campaign media connectedness. Communication Monographs, 76, 303-332.

Holbert. R. L., LaMarre, H., & Landreville, K. (2009). Fanning the flames of a partisan divide: The role of debate viewing in the formation of partisan-driven post-election evaluations of personal vote count accuracy. Communication Research, 36, 155-177.

Holbert, R. L., & Geidner, N. A. (2009). The 2008 election: Highlighting the need to explore additional communication sub-fields to advance political communication. Communication Studies, 60, 344-358.

Holbert, R. L. (2008). Talk radio, political. L. L. Kaid & C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Political Communication (pp.777-779).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Holbert, R. L. (2005). Television news viewing, governmental scope, and postmaterialist spending: Assessing partisan differences in mediation-based processes of influence.  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 49, 416-434.

Holbert, R. L. (2005). Intramedia mediation: The cumulative and complementary effects of news media use. Political Communication, 22, 447-462.

Holbert, R. L. (2005). Back to basics: Revisiting, resolving, and expanding some of the fundamental issues of political communication research. Political Communication, 22, 511-514.

Holbert, R. L. (2005). Debate viewing as mediator and partisan reinforcement in the relationship between news use and vote choice.  Journal of Communication, 55, 85-102.  

Holbert, R. L.  (2004). Political talk radio, perceived fairness, and the establishment of President George W. Bush’s political legitimacy. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 9, 12-27.

Kwak, N., Shah, D. V., & Holbert, R. L. (2004). Connecting, trusting, and participating: The interactive effects of social associations and generalized trust on collective action.  Political Research Quarterly, 57, 643-652.

Benoit, W. L., Hansen, G. J., & Holbert, R. L. (2004). Presidential campaign advertisements educate voters. Mass Communication & Society, 7, 177-190.

Holbert, R. L., Benoit, W. L., Hansen, G. J., & Wen, W-C. (2002). The role of communication in the formation of an issue-based citizenry.  Communication Monographs, 69, 296-310.

Pfau, M., Holbert, R. L., Szabo, E. A., & Kaminski, K. (2002). Effects of issue-advocacy versus candidate advertising on candidate preferences and democratic processes. Journal of Communication, 52, 301-315.

Entertainment Media and Politics

Holbert, R. L., Hmielowski, J., Jain, P., Lather, J., & Morey, A. (in press). Adding nuance to the study of political humor effects: A study of juvenalian versus horatian satire. American Behavioral Scientist.

Holbert, R. L., & Hansen, G. J. (2008). Stepping beyond message specificity in the study of emotion as mediator and inter-emotion associations across attitude objects: Fahrenheit 9/11, anger, and debate superiority. Media Psychology, 11, 98-118.

Holbert, R. L., Hansen, G. J., Caplan, S. E., & Mortensen, S. (2007). Presidential debate viewing and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9-11: A study of affect-as-transfer and passionate reasoning. Media Psychology, 9, 673-694.

Holbert, R. L., Lambe, J. L., Dudo, A. D., & Carlton, K. A. (2007). Primacy Effects of The Daily Show and National TV News Viewing: Young Viewers, Political Gratifications, and Internal Political Self-Efficacy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 51, 20-38.

Holbert, R. L., & Hansen, G. J. (2006). Fahrenheit 9-11, Need for Closure and the Priming of Affective Ambivalence: An Assessment of Intra-Affective Structures by Party Identification. Human Communication Research, 32, 109-129.

Holbert, R. L., Hansen, G. J., Mortensen, S., & Caplan, S. E. (2006). An analysis of the relative influences of Fahrenheit 9-11 and presidential debate viewing on shifting confidence in President George W. Bush. Communication Research Reports, 23, 209-216.

Holbert, R. L., Tschida, D. A., Dixon, M., Cherry, K., Steuber, K., & Airne, D. (2005). The West Wing and depictions of the American presidency: Expanding the theoretical and empirical domains of framing in political communication. Communication Quarterly, 53, 505-522.

Holbert, R. L. (2005). A typology for the study of entertainment television and politics. American Behavioral Scientist, 49, 436-453.

Holbert, R. L., Shah, D. V., & Kwak, N. (2004). Fear, authority, and justice: The influence of TV news, police reality, and crime drama viewing on endorsements of capital punishment and gun ownership. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 81, 343-363.

Holbert, R. L., Pillion, O., Tschida, D. A., Armfield, G. G., Kinder, K., Cherry, K., & Daulton, A. (2003).  The West Wing as endorsement of the American presidency: Expanding the domain of priming in political communication. Journal of Communication, 53, 427-443.

Holbert, R. L., Kwak, N., & Shah, D. V. (2003). Environmental concern, patterns of television viewing, and pro-environmental behaviors: Integrating models of media consumption and effects.  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 47, 177-196.

Holbert, R. L., Shah, D.V., & Kwak, N. (2003).  Political implications of prime-time drama and sitcom use: Genres of representation and opinions concerning women’s rights. Journal of Communication, 53, 45-60.  

Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Method

Benoiut, W. L., & Holbert, R. L. (2008). Conducting communication research at methodological intersections: Replication, multiple quantiative methods, and briding the quantitative-qualitative divide. Journal of Communication, 58, 615-628.

Holbert, R. L., & Stephenson, M. T. (2008). Commentary on the uses and misuses of structural equation modeling in communication research. In A. F. Hayes, M. D. Slater, & L. B. Snyder (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Advanced Data Analysis Methods for Communication Research (pp. 185-218). Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage.

Stephenson, M. T., Holbert, R. L., & Zimmerman, R. S. (2006). Structural equation modeling in health communication. Health Communication, 20, 159-168.

Holbert, R. L., & Stephenson, M. T. (2003). The importance of analyzing indirect effects in media effects research: Testing for mediation in structural equation modeling.  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 47, 553-569.

Stephenson, M. T., & Holbert, R. L. (2003). A monte carlo simulation of observable- versus latent-variable structural equation modeling techniques. Communication Research, 30, 332-354.

Holbert, R. L., & Stephenson, M. T. (2002).  Structural equation modeling in the communication sciences, 1995-2000.  Human Communication Research, 28, 531-551.