Publications

Holtgraves, T., Bray, K., Britton, K. How people perceive and talk about miscommunication. Journal of Pragmatics, 217, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.09.011

Holtgraves, T. (2023). Emoji, Speech Acts, and Perceived Communicative Success. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0(0), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X231200450

Holtgraves, T. (2022). Implicit communication of emotions via written text messages. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 7, 100219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100219

Holtgraves, T. (2022). Microaggressions in context: Linguistic and pragmatic perspectives. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221133824

Holtgraves, T., & Bray, K. (2022).  U. S. liberals and conservatives live in different (linguistic) worlds: Ideological differences when interpreting business conversations.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12930

Togans, J., Holtgraves, T.,  Kwon, G., & Morales-Zelaya, T.  (2021).  Digitally saving face: An experimental investigation of cross-cultural differences in the use of emoticons and emoji.  Journal of Pragmatics, 186, 277-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.09.016 

Holtgraves, T. (2021). Understanding miscommunication: Speech act recognition in digital contexts. Cognitive Science, 45, Article e13023. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13023

Holtgraves T, Robinson C (2020) Emoji can facilitate recognition of conveyed indirect meaning. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0232361. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232361

Holtgraves, T., & Jenkins, E. (2020). Texting and the Language of Everyday Deception. Discourse Processes, 57(7), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2019.1711347

Licea-Haquet, G., Velásquez-Upegui, E., Holtgraves, T., & Giordano, M. (2019). Speech act recognition in Spanish speakers. Journal of Pragmatics, 141, 44–56. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.013

Holtgraves, T., & Kraus, B. (2018). Processing scalar implicatures in conversational contexts: An ERP study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 46, 93–108. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2017.12.008

Holtgraves, T., & Perdew, A. (2016). Politeness and the communication of uncertainty. Cognition, 154, 1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.005

Holtgraves, T. (2015). I Think I Am Doing Great but I Feel Pretty Bad About It. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(5), 677–686. doi: 10.1177/0146167215574269

Holtgraves, T. (2014). Interpreting uncertainty terms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(2), 219-228.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036930

Holtgraves, T. (2011). Text messaging, personality, and the social context. Journal of Research in Personality, 45(1), 92–99. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.11.015

Other publications are available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Holtgraves/research

 

Presentations

Holtgraves, T. (2023, September 20-22). Miscommunication: Examining When, Where, and Why Communication Goes Wrong [Conference Presentation]. 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics, Paris, France.

Sederlund, A., Cronk, E. M., Griffin, Y. A., Wood, R., Sarin, R., Brooks, C. K., McRobert, C. P., Sahni, E., Asiama-Sampong, E., Kelly, J., Allen, S., & Holtgraves, T. (2023, April 20). Conversational repair in the digital realm [Poster presentation]. 2023 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.

Sederlund, A., Griffin, Y. A., Asiama-Sampong, E., & Holtgraves, T. (2023, April 20). Interpreting scalar expressions in conversational contexts [Poster presentation]. 2023 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.

McRobert, C. P., Sederlund, A., Griffin, Y. A., Cronk, E. M., Sarin, R., Wood, R., Brooks, C. K., Sahni, E., & Holtgraves, T. (2023, April 22). Sound and fury; Linguistic analysis of microaggression and aggression tweets [Poster presentation]. 2023 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.

Griffin, Y. A., Sederlund, A., & Holtgraves, T. (2023, April 20). Exploring individual differences in conversation interpretation [Poster presentation]. 2023 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.

Bray, K., Lexa, C., Cronk, E. M., Griffin, Y., Sederlund, A., Tabaku, Z., McRobert, C. P., Blazek, M., Romines, K., & Holtgraves, T. (2022, May 28). Mad, sad, and confused: Increased negative emotionality and cognitive processes associated with miscommunication in 2.2 million tweets [Poster presentation]. 2022 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, United States.

Sederlund, A., Griffin, Y., Bray, K., & Holtgraves, T. (2022, May 28). I know what you mean even if you don’t: Receiver overconfidence in emoji interpretation [Poster presentation]. 2022 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, United States.

Britton, K., Kelly, T., Bray, K., & Holtgraves, T. (2021, April). Pardon my (Mis)interpretation: Exploring Types and Reactions in Miscommunication. 2021 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Bray, K., Britton, K., & Holtgraves, T. (2021, April). Ideological Differences in the Interpretation of Utterances with Indirect Meanings. 2021 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Robinson, C, Carpenter, S., Hovermale, O., Ankney, L., & Holtgraves, T. (2020) An Enhanced P200 Response to Inconsistent Face Emoji – an ERP Study.  Association for Psychological Science Convention.

Mullen, A., Robinson, C., Hovermale, O., Ankney, L., & Holtgraves, T. (2019). The role of emoji in language processing. 2019 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Morales-Zelaya, T., Togans, J. J., Kwon, G., & Holtgraves, T. (2019).  Digitally saving face: Cross-cultural Differences in the Use of Emoticon and Emoji. 2019 Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.