Publications

Holtgraves, T., Sarin, R., Wood, R., Cronk, E., & Nogueira Mourão, A. (in press). Interpreting Microaggressions: The Role of Discourse Context, Recipient Status, and Observers’ Political Orientation.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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.