Group Communication Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Yifeng Wang, Xinyi Zhang & Yuwei Zhong, "Blaming Undocumented Immigrants in Crises: Revisiting Effects of Death and Economic Threats through Holistic Thinking Since COVID-19" |
| 2022 | Jessica Bozeman, "Redefining Social Groups and Expounding on Their Functions" |
| 2021 | Eugene Lee and Lichen Zhen;"How do Donors Know a Team is Worth It? Building Effective Relief Fund Campaigns During the COVID-19 Pandemic" |
| 2020 | Chandler MacSwain, "Historical Roots in the Study of Groups: A look at two theoretical traditions" |
| 2019 | Yutong Wu, Carmen Chan, Cordelia Jin, Poppy McLeod, Michele Williams, "Effects of Avatar Gender on Negotiation in a Virtual Environment" |
| 2018 | Sonia Jawaid SHaikh and Ignacio Cruz, "'Alexa, Do you Know Anything?' The Effects of Intelligent Personal Assistants in Teams: Examining Dynamic Interactions, Decsion Making and Creativity Over (and Under) Time" |
| 2017 | Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, "Making Sense of International Faith-based Disaster Relief Volunteer Experiences: Barriers and Contributors to Successful Operations" |
| 2016 | Maggie Boyraz, "It's what you make of it: The role of team identification, communication climate and perception of subgroups as important factors in global team satisfaction and innovation" |
| 2015 | Leanna Smithberger, “Finding the Fine Line: The Empowering Role of the Facilitator” |
| 2014 | Mikyeung Bae, "The Effects of Anonymity on Computer-Mediated Communication: The Case of Independent versus Interdependent Self-Construal Influence" |
| 2013 | Stephanie M. Ruhl, "Creating Connections on the Court: 'It's a Half-Ass Game'" |
| 2012 | Gamze Yilmaz, “The Influence of Interpersonal Behaviors and Social Categories on Language Use in Virtual Teams” |
| 2007 | Zuoming Wang |
| 2006 | Christina Bates, "Cross disciplinary illuminations: Looking for Group Psychotherapy to inform task/work group effectiveness research" |
| 2005 | Ted Coopman, "Weak is the new strong: A study of communication patterns between men in the mankind project" |
| 2004 | Angela S. Borsella, "Communication patterns associated with group synergistic outcomes: A comparison for functional and information assessment approaches" |
| 2003 | Renee Heath, "Ideal Collaboration: A Conceptual Framework of Group Deliberation" |
| Johnny Garner, "Leading the Dance: A Process Theory of Leadership and Group Development" | |
| Hao Huang, "Toward an Understanding of the National Culture Dimension of Knowledge Sharing in Newly Formed Multinational Teams" | |
| 2002 | Yan Xu, "A Structural Equations Analysis of the Transactive Memory Model" |
| 2001 | Dan Ryan, "Decision-Making Norms: The Crux of Groupthink" |
| 2000 | Kevin Real, "Gender and Perceptions of Relational Interaction in Task Groups" |
| 1998 | Tim Kuhn, "Group Process and Group Performance: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Analysis of Conflict and Decision-Making" |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Devon Geary & Valerie Manusov, "Facilitated Contact: Building the Container for Interracial Conversations about Race" |
| 2022 | Kay Yoon, Cameron Piercy, Young Ji Kim, & Yaguang Zhu, "Boundary Work and Transactive Memory Systems in Multi-Team Environments: Moderating Effects of the Visibility Affordance" |
| 2021 | No winner for this year. |
| 2020 | Kay Yoon and Yaguang Zhu, "Social Media Affordances and Transactive Memory System in Virtual Teams" |
| Matthew S. McGlone, "All Action and No Talk: A Multimethod Investigation of Routinized Adaptation in Interprofessional Critical Teams By Dawna Ballard, Dron Mandhana, Mary Waller, Matthew McGlone, Ana Aguilar, and Dina Inman-Ramgolam" | |
| Katie Knobloch and John Gastil, "How Deliberative Experiences Shape Subjective Outcomes: A Study of Fifteen Minipublics from 2010-2018" | |
| Ana Aguilar, Mary Waller, Dina Inman-Ramgolam, Dawna Ballard, and Dron M. Mandhana, "All Action and No Talk: A Multimethod Investigation of Routinized Adaptation in Interprofessional Critical Teams | |
| Yuanxin Wang, Jiawei Zhang, Zijun Ding, Leslie DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor, "Dynamics of Processes and Performance of Teams using Enterprise Social Media" | |
| 2019 | Samuel Wilson, Luisa Ruge-Jones, William C. Barley, & Marshall Scott Poole, "Tacking amid tension: Using oscillation to enable creativity in diverse teams" |
| Lyn Van Swol, Paul Hangsan Ahn, & Andrew Prahl, Languague use in group discourse and its relationship to group processes" | |
| Alaina Zanin, Laura V. Martinez, & Katrina N. Hanna, "(Re)structuring empowerment: Volunteer barriers and agency to gender disparities in female youth sport contexts" | |
| 2018 | Alaina C. Zanin, Jessica Kay Kamrath, & Steven R. Corman, "A Bona Fide Group Perspective of Athletic Healthcare Teams and Concussion Reporting" |
| Sonia Jawaid SHaikh and Ignacio Cruz, "'Alexa, Do you Know Anything?' The Effects of Intelligent Personal Assistants in Teams: Examining Dynamic Interactions, Decsion Making and Creativity Over (and Under) Time" | |
| Aaron Campbell, "Collecive Leadership Networks, and Communication: What (or Who) Makes Sense?" | |
| 2017 | Michael W. Kramer, Carrisa Hoelscher, Chris Nguyen, Eric Anthony Day, Olivia Cooper, "Structuration Processes in an Interagency Collaboration: Enabling and Constraining through Words and Deeds" |
| Lyn M. Van Swol, Andrew Prahl, & Miranda R. Kolb, "The Roles of Ingroup Identification and Implicit Bias in Assessing the Effectiveness of a Virtual Diversity Education Program" | |
| Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz & Astrid Villamil, "'It's a bit complicated:' Group Discussion of Known or Novel Scientific Information about Climate Change" | |
| Joseph A Bonito & Joann Keyton, "Introduction to Machine Learning: Teaching Computers to Code Group Interaction Data" | |
| 2016 | Johny Garner and John Ragland, "Tabling, discussing, and giving in: Meeting dissent in three workgroups" |
| Emily Paskewitz and Stephenson Beck, "When work and family merge: Understanding intragroup conflict experiences in family farm business" | |
| Andrew Pilny, Marshall Scott Poole, Ashley Reichelmann, and Brennan Klein, "Results of an online public goods group game based on three traditions of communication theory" | |
| Alaina Zanin and Ryan Bisel, "Triggering a team's collective resistance: The managerial inquisition" | |
| 2015 | Johny Garner and Debra L. Iba, “I Don’t Like What You’re Saying: Gaze Duration as a Response to Group Dissent” |
| Toshio Murase, Raquel Asencio, Joseph D. McDonald, Marshall Scott Poole, Leslie A. DeChurch, and Noshir S. Contractor, "The Effect of Entrainment of Group Processes on Multiteam System Effectiveness" | |
| Andrew Ishak and Elizabeth A. Williams, "Learning in Critical Teams: Borrowed Experience in Wildland Firefighting" | |
| Sarah Marie Staggs, Jennifer N. Ervin, and Joseph A. Bonito, "Is Time on Our Side? Investigating Group Decision-making Processes Over a Series of Tasks" | |
| 2014 | Kevin Barge, Josh Barbour, and Kathy Isaacson, "Playing the Prosperity Game: Assessing the Impact of Large Group Interventions" |
| Andrew Pilny, Alex Yahja, Scott Poole, and Melissa Dobosh, "Dynamic Communication Patterns and Performance in Small Groups" | |
| Jennifer Ervin, Joe Bonito, and Joann Keyton, "Intra- and Interpersonal Characteristics of Group Discussion: Application of the Latent Group Model to a Series of Meetings" | |
| 2013 | Johny Garner and Debra L. Iba, "Disconnections: Changes in Eye Contact and Attraction Scores as Indicators of Students' Ostracism Toward a Dissenter" |
| Jonathan Matusitz and Taylor Armstrong, "Hezbollah as a Group Phenomenon: Differential Association Theory" | |
| Lyn Van Swol, Michael Braun, Emily Acosta Lewis, Cassandra Carlson, and Giovana Dimperio, "Minority Influence and Communication in Group Discussions of Controversial Issues" | |
| 2012 | Courtney Pade and Janet Fulk, “Examining Social Exchange in Transactive Memory Systems” |
| Mary Ann Renz, “Untangling the Connection Between Community-building and Problem-solving Theories for Groups” | |
| Bradley Wesner, “You’re Either S.W.A.T. or You’re not: An Analysis of Reliability and Resilience in High Reliability Teams” | |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Carlson, "Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal: Social Media Contact and Perceptions of Team Processes and Outcomes" |
| Mary Lynn Henningsen, Valentina Cotini, David Henningsen, Chance McWorthy, and Emily McWorthy, "Normative and Informational Influence in Decision-Making Groups: A Goals-Plans-Actions Approach" | |
| Isabel Botero and Amber Raile, "Understanding Participation In Groups: Individual And Group Factors That Influence Willingness To Voice Ideas In Groups" | |
| 2010 | Sunwolf Sunwolf and Laura Leets, "Peer Group Rejection: The Stress of Exclusing Others, Being Excluded, or Watching Group Exclusion as Children Age" |
| Joseph Bonito and Renee Meyers, "Examining Functional Communication from a Socio-Egocentric Perspective: Application of a Latent Group Model" | |
| Hillary Shulman and Gwen Wittenbaum, "Promoting Perceived Deliberative Success through Group Communication" | |
| 2007 | Joseph Walter and Natalie Bazarova |
| Zuoming Wang | |
| Ling Xia, Connie Yuan, and Geri Gay | |
| 2006 | Carolyn Prentice, "The Assimilation of In-Laws: The Impact of Newcomers on the Structuration of Families" |
| Lyn Van Swol and Janet Sniezek, "The effects of Advisor Motives on Confidence and Advice Utilization" | |
| John Gastil, Stephanie Burkhalter, and Laura Black, "Do Juries Deliberate? A study of deliberation, individual difference, and group member satisfaction at a munincipal courthouse" | |
| 2005 | Ron Warren, Joann Keyton, Allison Alexander, and Doug Behrend, "Work and play well with others: Group behavior in television sitcoms" |
| Lyn Van Swol and Emily Seinfeld, "Differences between minority, majority, and unanimous group members in the communication of information" | |
| Mary Ann Renz, "The meaning of consensus and blocking for cohousing groups" | |
| 2004 | Cartwright Stephens and Derek R. Lane, "Clarifying cohesion and its relationship to groupthink: A multi-semester exploration of the cohesion dilemma in collaborative teams" |
| David D. Henningsen, Mary Lynn Henningsen, and Jen Eden, "Finding groupthink in the laboratory" | |
| John T. Garner and Marshall Scott Poole, "Opposites attract: The emergence of leadership as interaction between a leader and a foil" | |
| 2003 | Gwen Wittenbaum and Isabel Botero, "Information Sharing among Members of Decision-Making Work Groups" |
| Mike Allen, "Communication and Social Loafing: A Meta-Analysis" | |
| Jennifer Considine, Renee Meyers, and C.R. Timmerman, "Evidence Use in Group Quiz Discussions: How Do Students Support Preferred Choices? | |
| Daisy Lemus, David Seibold, Andrew Flanigan, and Miriam Metzger, "Argument and Decision Making in Computer-Mediated Groups" | |
| 2002 | Sunwolf Sunwolf and Laura Leets, "Being Left Out: Communication Group Boundaires and Resisting Inclusion Attempts in Childhood Peer Groups" |
| Arthur Van Lear, Robert A. Walker, Megan A. Sheehan, and Lesley A. Withers, "AA Online: The Enactment of Supportive Computer-Mediated Communication" | |
| Yan Xu, "A Structural Equations Analysis of the Transactive Memory Model" | |
| 2001 | Joseph A. Bonito, "An Information-Processing Approach to Participation in Small Groups" |
| Tammie J. Ulrich, Mike Allen, and Edward A. Mabry, "A Meta-Analysis of Decision Quality in Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Groups" | |
| Michael W. Kramer, "Community Theatre as a Bona Fide Group: Role Management in a 'Third Place' Group" | |
| Kelby K. Halone, "Explaining (In)Competent Group Decision Making: (Re)Conceptualizing Social Loafing as an Interactive Outcome of Communication Competence and Group Leadership" | |
| 2000 | Andrew J. Flanagin, Vanessa Tiyaamornwong, Joan O'Connor, Minu Sebastian, and David R. Seibold, "Gender Effects in Anonymous, Computer Mediated Group Work" |
| Valerie E. Barker, Jessica R. Abrams, Vanessa Tiyaamornwong, David R. Seibold, Ashley Duggan, Hee Sun Park, and Minu Sebastian, "New Contexts for Relational Communication in Groups" | |
| Stephanie J. Coopman, "Decision Making in 'Real Teams': A Study of Hospice Interdisciplinary Teams" | |
| 1999 | Craig R. Scott, Volker Frank, Karen M. Wolff, Charlotte Sullivan, and Barbara Foster, "Communication Technology Use and Key Outcomes in Groups: A Comparison of Site and Virtual Teams" |
| Tara Wachtel, Renee A. Meyers, and Dale E. Brashers, "Exploring Argumentative Competence in Group Decision making Interactions" | |
| Sunwolf Sunwolf, "Telling Tales in Jury Deliberations: Jurors' Use of Fictionalized and Factually-based Storytelling in Argument" | |
| 1988 | Renee Meyers, Dale Brashers, and Jennifer Jerzak, "Majority/Minority Influence: Identifying Argumentative Patterns and Predicting Argument - Outcome Links" |
| Tim Kuhn, "Group Process and Group Performance: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Analysis of Conflict and Decision-Making" | |
| Craig Scott |
Laura Crowell Best Dissertation/Thesis Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Paul Ahn, "Study II: Innovative Ideas Desire Earlier Communication: Exploring Reverse Serial-Order Effect and Liberating Cognitive Constraint for Organizational Problem-Solving" |
| 2020 | Xun Zhu, "The communicative etiology of consensual stereotypes: Integrating common information bias and positive ingroup bias" |
| 2019 | Yaguang Zhu (University of Texas-Austin) |
| 2017 | Maggie Boyraz, "'How to Break the "Invisible Walls': The Role of Communicative Practices for Overcoming Challenges of Subgroups in Global Terms" |
| 2016 | Emily Paskewitz, "When work and family merge: Understanding intragroup conflict experiences in family farm businesses" |
| 2015 | Bingqing Wang, "Dispostional agreeableness predicts ostracising others at work" |
| 2014 | Andrew W. Ishak, "Time Out: Organization Training for Improvisation in Life Saving Critical Teams" |
| 2013 | Katherine Knobloch, "Civic (Re)Socializing: The Transformative Potential of Deliberative Public Sphere Structures" |
| 2012 | Chih-Hui Lai, "Living History with the Internet: Probing the Sustainability of Mixed-Mode Groups through an Ecological and Evolutionary Lens" |
| 2010 | Marie Lehmann, "Reflexivity training in German work groups: Impact on negative and positive communication practices" |
| 2009 | Stephenson J. Beck, "The Communicative Creation of Meetings: An Interaction Analysis of Meeting Thought Units and Meeting Activites in Three Natural Meeting Contexts" |
| 2007 | Laura Black, "Deliberation, Difference, and the Story: How Storytelling Manages Identity and Conflict in Deliberative Groups" |
| 2006 | Stephen Rains, "What's in a Name? Two Studies examining the impact of anonymity on perceptions of course credibility and influence" |
| 2005 | Connie Yuan, "The impact of social capital on the development of transactive memory systems" |
| 2004 | Jonathan M. Bowman, "Effects of time pressue and information access on hidden profile solution in decision-making groups" |
| 2003 | Jennifer Considine, "Group centered learning in post-secondary education" |
| 2002 | Isabel Botero, "Effects of leadership and task demonstrability on information repetition in decision-making groups" |
| 2001 | Kristin Doleman Charles, "Goal Coordination in Decision-Making Groups: An Evaluation of Group Argument Effects on Group Goals" |
| 2000 | Jane Maccourbrie, "The Content of Decision-Making: Decision Logics in Juries" |
Marshall Scoot Poole Career Achievement Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Dean Hewes |
| 2015 | Joann Keyton |
| 2012 | Renee A. Meyers |
| 2011 | David Seibold |
| 2010 | Larry Frey |
| 2006 | Scott Poole |
Dennis Gouran Research Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Joseph A. Bonito & Joann Keyton, "A Valence-Based Account of Group Interaction and Decision Making" |
| 2022 | Bei Yan , Andrea B. Hollingshead, Kristen S. Alexander, Ignacio Cruz, & Sonia Jawaid Shaikh, "Communication in Transactive Memory Systems: A Review and Multidimensional Network Perspective," published in Small Group Research in 2021. |
| Jiawei Sophia Fu, Michelle Shumate, & Noshir Contractor, "Organizational and Individual Innovation Decisions in an Interorganizational System: Social Influence and Decision-Making Authority," published in Journal of Communication in 2020. | |
| 2021 | Emma Frances Bloomfield, Lyn Van Swol, Chen-Ting Chang, Stephanie Willes, & Paul Hangsan Ahn;"The Effects of Establishing Intimacy and Consubstantiality on Group Discussions About Climate Change Solutions," published in Science Communication, 42(3), 369-394 in 2020.; |
| 2020 | Bei Yan, Young Ji Kim, Andrea B. Hollingshead, and David P. Brandon, "Conceptualizing Online Groups as Multidimensional Networks" The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology (2019). |
| 2019 | Emily A. Paskewitz and Stephenson J. Beck Paskewitz, E. A., & Beck, S. J. (2018). "Exploring Member-Leader Behaviors and Interaction in an Online Support Group." Small Group Research, 49(4), 452-474. |
| 2018 | Lyn Van Swol and Cassandra Carlson, "Language Use and Influence Among Minority, Majority, and Homogeneous Group Members" Communication Research, 44(4), 512-529 |
| 2017 | Joseph Walther, Elaine Hoter, Asmaa Ganayem, Miri Shonfeld, "Computer-mediated communication and the reduction of prejudice: A controlled longituinal field experiment among Jews and Arabs in Isreal" Computer in Human Behavior, 52, 550-558 |
| 2016 | Jessica Neff, Janet Fulk, and Y. Connie Tuan, "Not in the mood? Affective state and tranactive communication" Journal of Communication, 64 (2015): 785-998 |
| 2015 | R. Braustein and R. Wood Fulton, "The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations" American Sociological Review, 79 (2014): 705-25 |
| 2014 | E Minei and Ryan Bisel, "Negotiating the Meaning of Team Expertise A Firefighter Team's Epistemic Denial" Small Group Research, 44 (2013): 7-32 |
| 2013 | Joe Bonito, E K Ruppel, and Joann Keyton, "Reliability estimates for multilevel designs in group research" Small Group Research, 43 (2012):443-467 |
| 2012 | Torsten Reimer, Andrea Reimer, & Verlin B. Hinsz, “Naïve Groups Can Solve the Hidden-Profile Problem,” Human Communication Research 36 (2010):443-467 |
| 2011 | Amy L. Gonzales, Jeffrey T. Hancock, and James W. Pennebaker, "Language Style Matching as a Predictor of Social Dynamics in Small Groups" Communication Research (2010) |
| 2010 | Dean Hewes, "The influence of communication processes on group outcomes: Antithesis and thesis" Human Communication Research, 35 (2009): 249-271 |
| 2009 | Connie Y. Yuan, Janet Fulk, and Peter R. Monge, "Access to information in connective and communal transactive memory systems" Communication Research, 34(2) (2007):131-155 |
| 2008 | David Seibold and Renee A. Meyers, "Group argument: A structuration perspective and research program" Small Group Research, 38(3) (2007):312-336 |
| 2007 | Lyn Van Swol and Emily Seinfeld, "Differences between Minority, Majority, and Unanimous Group Members in the Communication of Information" Human Communication Research, 32 (2006) |
| 2006 | Stephen Corman and Timothy Kuhn, "The detectability of socio-egocentric group speech: A quasi-turning test" Communication Monographs, (2005) |
| 2005 | Michael Kramer, "Toward a communication theory of group dialectics: An ethnogrpahic study of a community theater group" Communication Monographs, (2004) |
| 2004 | Michele Jackson and Scott Poole, "Idea-generation in naturally ocurring contexts: Complex appropriation of a simple group procedure" Human Communication Research, (2003) |
| 2003 | Joseph Bonito, "The analysis of particiaption in small groups: Methodological and conceptual issues related to interdependence" Small Group Research, (2002) |
| 2002 | Renée Meyers, Dale Brashers, and Jennifer Hanner, "Majority/minority influence: Identifying argumentative patterns and predicting argument-outcome links" Journal of Communication, (2002) |
| 2001 | Tim Kuhn and Scott Poole, "Do Conflict Management Styles Affect Group Decision Making? Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Study" Human Communication Research, (2000) |
| 2000 | Sunwolf and David Seibold, "Jurors' Intuitive Rules For Deliberation: A Structurational Approach to Communication in Jury Decision Making" Communication Monographs, (1998) |
Ernest Bormann Research Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Stephenson J. Beck, Joann Keyton, & Marshall Scott Poole," The Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research |
| 2021 | John Gastil & Katherine Knobloch, Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics, published by Oxford University Press in 2019. |
| 2018 | Andrew Pilny and Marshall Scott Poole, Group Processes: Data-Driven Computational Approaches (Springer, 2017) |
| 2013 | Andrea Hollingshead and Marshall Scott Poole, Methods for Studying Small Groups and Teams, A Guide to Approaches, Tools, and Technologies (Routledge, 2012) |
| 2011 | John Gastil, E Pierre Deess, Philip Weiser, and Cindy Simmons, The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation (Oxford University Press, 2010) |
| 2007 | Lawrence R. Frey, Facilitating Group Communication in Context (Hampton Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Marshall Scott Poole and Andrea Hollingshead, Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, (SAGE, 2005) |
| 2004 | Lawrence R. Frey, Group communication in context: Studies of Bona fide groups, (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associations, 2003 |
| 2003 | Lawrence R. Frey, New directions in Group Communication, (SAGE, 2001) |
| 2001 | Joann Keyton, "The Relational Side of Groups" Small Group Research, 31 (2000):387-396 |
| 2000 | Larry Frey, Dennis Gouran, and Scott Poole, The Handbook of Group Communication Theory and Research, (SAGE, 1999) |