David M. Markowitz
Professor of communications
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Communications
David M. Markowitz's Degrees
- PhD Communication Stanford University
- Masters Communication Stanford University
- Bachelors Communication University of California, Berkeley
Why Is David M. Markowitz Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David M. Markowitz is a communication professor at the University of Oregon who specializes in the study of language and deception. Much of his work focuses on how technological channels impact the encoding and decoding of messages. His work has captured the attention of magazines and outlets in popular culture; he writes articles for Forbes magazine about deception. Much of his research has utilized analyses of linguistic and analytic styles of writing, for example, Markowitz's work on pet adoption ads was referenced in a website featuring tips on how to write better pet adoption ads.
David M. Markowitz's Published Works
Published Works
- Peer to Peer Lending: The Relationship Between Language Features, Trustworthiness, and Persuasion Success (2011) (235)
- Immersive Virtual Reality Field Trips Facilitate Learning About Climate Change (2018) (219)
- Linguistic Traces of a Scientific Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel (2014) (78)
- Linguistic Obfuscation in Fraudulent Science (2016) (68)
- Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues (2020) (48)
- Social, psychological, and demographic characteristics of dehumanization toward immigrants (2020) (39)
- Deception in Mobile Dating Conversations (2018) (29)
- What Words Are Worth: National Science Foundation Grant Abstracts Indicate Award Funding (2019) (20)
- Putting your best pet forward: Language patterns of persuasion in online pet advertisements (2020) (18)
- A Multitheoretical Approach to Big Text Data: Comparing Expressive and Rhetorical Logics in Yelp Reviews (2018) (18)
- It’s the Situation and Your Disposition: A Test of Two Honesty Hypotheses (2020) (17)
- Academy Awards Speeches Reflect Social Status, Cinematic Roles, and Winning Expectations (2018) (16)
- Virtual reality and the psychology of climate change. (2021) (16)
- Virtuous violence from the war room to death row (2020) (16)
- Dehumanization During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (15)
- The Meaning Extraction Method: An Approach to Evaluate Content Patterns From Large-Scale Language Data (2020) (14)
- The 27 Club: Music Lyrics Reflect Psychological Distress (2017) (13)
- Virtually Real, But Not Quite There: Social and Economic Barriers to Meeting Virtual Reality’s True Potential for Mental Health (2021) (11)
- Tracing the Adoption and Effects of Open Science in Communication Research (2021) (10)
- Deception and Language: The Contextual Organization of Language and Deception (COLD) Framework (2019) (10)
- When context matters: how false, truthful, and genre-related communication styles are revealed in language (2020) (10)
- The predictive utility of word familiarity for online engagements and funding (2021) (10)
- The deception faucet: A metaphor to conceptualize deception and its detection (2020) (9)
- Psychological and physiological effects of applying self-control to the mobile phone (2019) (9)
- The Writing Style of Predatory Publishers (2014) (8)
- Defining empathy: Interconnected discourses of virtual reality’s prosocial impact (2021) (8)
- Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-19 (2021) (8)
- Communicating Imperatives Requires Psychological Closeness But Creates Psychological Distance (2020) (7)
- Virtual Reality and Communication (2019) (7)
- Why we dehumanize illegal immigrants: A US mixed-methods study (2021) (6)
- Trusting on the Shoulders of Open Giants? Open Science Increases Trust in Science for the Public and Academics (2021) (6)
- Interpersonal Dynamics in Online Dating (2018) (6)
- The Deception Spiral: Corporate Obfuscation Leads to Perceptions of Immorality and Cheating Behavior (2020) (5)
- How Experts React: The World Health Organization’s Appraisal of COVID-19 via Communication Patterns (2021) (4)
- Ability-related political polarization in the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) (4)
- Words to Submit by: Language Patterns Indicate Conference Acceptance for the International Communication Association (2021) (3)
- Making an Offer They Cant Refuse: How Borrower Language in Peer-to-Peer Lending Impacts Funding (TOP 3 Student Paper) (2009) (2)
- Toward a Deeper Understanding of Prolific Lying: Building a Profile of Situation-Level and Individual-Level Characteristics (2022) (2)
- Examining the Examiners: How Medical Death Investigators Describe Suicidal, Homicidal, and Accidental Death (2020) (2)
- Instrumental goal activation increases online petition support across languages. (2022) (2)
- The Location of Maximum Emotion in Deceptive and Truthful Texts (2020) (2)
- Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success (2022) (2)
- Organizational Deviance: Antecedents and Consequences of Norm Violations and Unethicality at Work (2018) (1)
- Revisiting the Relationship Between Deception and Design: A Replication and Extension of Hancock et al. (2004) (2021) (1)
- PassivePy: A Tool to Automatically Identify Passive Voice in Big Text Data (2022) (1)
- Using MTurk to Capture Change: Tracking Perceptions of COVID-19 in a U.S. sample through the UO-EPIDeMIC Study (2021) (1)
- Science Training for Political Reporters: Understanding Impact with a Mixed Methods Approach (2022) (1)
- The Media Marshmallow Test: Psychological and Physiological Effects of Applying Self-Control to the Mobile Phone (2017) (1)
- Social and psychological questions about humans and technology The Stanford Social Media Lab (2017) (0)
- Analytic Thinking as Revealed by Function Words: What Does Language Really Measure? (2023) (0)
- Gender and ethnicity bias in medicine: a text analysis of 1.8 million critical care records (2022) (0)
- Deceptive (De)humanization: How Lying About Perceived Outgroups is Revealed in Language (2022) (0)
- Tracing the Adoption and Effects of Open Science in Communication Research* (2021) (0)
- Psychological Trauma and Emotional Upheaval as Revealed in Academic Writing (2021) (0)
- The Truth Project (2021) (0)
- Supplementary_Materials_V2_SUBMIT - The Location of Maximum Emotion in Deceptive and Truthful Texts (2020) (0)
- Virtual Reality and Emotion: A 5-Year Systematic Review of Empirical Research (2015-2019) (2021) (0)
- Descriptive Linguistic Patterns of Group Conversations in VR (2023) (0)
- Detection Accuracy for Fake News on Social Media: A Deception Detection Approach (2017) (0)
- Contextual considerations for deception production and detection in forensic interviews (2023) (0)
- Political ideology shapes risk and benefit judgments of COVID‐19 vaccines (2023) (0)
- Self-presentation in medicine: How language patterns reflect physician impression management goals and affect perceptions (2023) (0)
- Academy Awards Speeches (2017) (0)
- Implications of Media Use in Long-Distance and Geographically Close Relationships (2015) (0)
- Words for Sale: Linguistic Complexity Associates with Higher Housing Prices in Online Realty Advertisements (2023) (0)
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