The health belief model (HBM) posits that messages will achieve optimal behavior change if they successfully target perceived barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, and threat. While the model seems to be an ideal explanatory framework for communication research, theoretical limitations have limited its use in the field. Notably, variable ordering is currently undefined in the HBM. Thus, it is uncl...

Case studies were used to examine the efficacy of transformative and facilitative mediation to address workplace conflict. This approach provided participants with an opportunity to reframe their negative perceptions of each other and to shift their interpersonal dynamics into more favourable territory. Furthermore, most of the parties cited in these cases were able to generate practical soluti...

This paper analyzes pretrial mediation, in which a panel estimates the value of the plaintiff’s claim. Each party must decide whether to accept or reject the resulting award. If either party rejects, the case proceeds on toward trial; however, most cases are ultimately settled. We develop and then test a model in which each party has private information about the claim, but the mediation panel ...

Mediation does not only mean a specific procedure or protocol but the related attitude, mindset as well. This perspective gives opportunity to demonstrate the problem in a different way than previously. In the present study the participatory theory of communication (PTC) appears as a framework which makes the communication of participants of the mediation interpretable and transparent.

This two-wave national panel study was designed to test the causal claims of the “cognitive mediation model.” The data indicate strong support for the following causal relationships predicted by the model: (a) surveillance motivations influence information processing, (b) information processing influences knowledge, and (c) motivations influence knowledge only indirectly through information pro...

This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted. JEL Code: D24, C21, C43, C38.

China’s elaborate system of local mediation committees has piqued researchers’ curiosity for decades and sparked an argument in these pages. Crucial questions— concerning how much mediation actually takes place, what kinds of disputes are mediated, who seeks mediation, and how successful it is—have gone unanswered for lack of data. This article addresses these issues using original surveys from...

The discovery of a standard-model-like Higgs at 126 GeV and the absence of squark signals thus far at the LHC both point towards a mini-split spectrum for supersymmetry. Within standard paradigms, it is non-trivial to realize a mini-split spectrum with heavier sfermions but lighter gauginos while simultaneously generating Higgs sector soft terms of the correct magnitude, suggesting the need for...

Mediation is a causal process that evolves over time. Thus, a study of mediation requires data collected throughout the process. However, most applications of mediation analysis use cross-sectional rather than longitudinal data. Another implicit assumption commonly made in longitudinal designs for mediation analysis is that the same mediation process universally applies to all members of the po...