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Research Overview
One of my research interests is the interaction of emotion and reason in persuasion and, more specifically, in nonverbal/emotional factors in safe-sex communication and persuasion. I find that two kinds of emotion particularly important in safe-sex communication tend to be overlooked in the emotion literature: (1) reptilian emotions (“raw” sex and power) and (2) positive and negative prosocial emotions (attachment, love, caring, play, bonding, loss/bereavement). The affect-reason-involvement (ARI) model is a general model of how emotion and reason interact in producing involvement, and this model is widely relevant to persuasion and marketing applications. For example, the ARI model has been applied to the analysis of safe-sex communication, using the SAFECOMM scale (Safe-Sex Communication Scale), which involves emotions specifically relevant to safe-sex communication.
Another one of my research interests involves the health impact of emotional communication, particularly in the context of personal relationships. Social support involving accurate emotional communication can have stress-buffering effects, but on the other hand, emotional miscommunication can unintentionally enhance stress and potentially impair health.
Education
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1970 (social psychology)
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965 (social psychology)
B.A., Allegheny College, 1963 (psychology)
Featured Publications
Buck, R. (1976). Human Motivation and Emotion. New York: John Wiley & Sons. (2nd Ed. 1988). Japanese Edition published by Kaneko Shobo, Tokyo, 2002.
Buck, R. (1984). The Communication of Emotion. New York: Guilford Press. Korean Edition published by NANAM Publishing House, Seoul, 2000.
Blanck, P., Buck, R., and Rosenthal, R. (Eds.). (1986). Nonverbal Communication in the Clinical Context. University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Buck, (1993). Emotional communication, emotional competence, and physical illness. In J. Pennebaker and Traue (Eds.) Emotional Expressiveness, Inhibition, and Health 32-56. Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber.
Buck, R. (1999). The biological affects: A typology. Psychological Review. 106(2), 301-336.
Buck, R. (2002). The genetics and biology of true love: Prosocial biological affects and the left hemisphere. Psychological Review. 109(4). 739-744.
Buck, R., and VanLear, C. A. (2002). Verbal and nonverbal communication: Distinguishing symbolic, spontaneous, and pseudo-spontaneous nonverbal behavior. Journal of Communication. 52(3). 522-541.
Boone, R. T., & Buck, R. (2003). Emotional expressivity and trustworthiness: The role of nonverbal behavior in the evolution of cooperation. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 27(3). 163-181.
Buck, R. (2004). The gratitude of exchange and the gratitude of caring: A developmental-interactionist perspective of moral emotion. In R. A. Emmons and M. McCullough (Eds.), The Psychology of Gratitude. (100-122). New York: Oxford University Press.
Boone, R. T., & Buck, R. (2004). Emotion Receiving Ability. In G. Geher (Ed.), Measuring Emotional Intelligence: Common Ground and Controversy. (73-89). Hauppauge, NY: Nova.
Buck, R. (2005). Measuring emotional experience, expression, and communication: The slide-viewing technique. In V. Manusof (Ed.), Beyond words: A sourcebook of methods for measuring nonverbal cues. (457-470). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Iwamitsu, Y., & Buck, R. (2005). Emotional distress in breast cancer patients. Suppression of Negative Emotion Social Support. In A. V. Clark (Ed.), Mood State and Health. (pp. 87-119). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Iwamitsu, Shimoda, Abe, Tani, Okawa, & Buck, R. (2005). Anxiety, emotional suppression, and psychological distress before and after breast cancer diagnosis. Psychosomatics. 46(1). 1-6.
Iwamitsu, Y., Shimoda, K., Abe, H., Tani, T., Okawa, M., & Buck, R. (2005). The relationship between negative emotional suppression and emotional distress in breast cancer patients. Health Communication. 18(3). 201-215.
Buck, R., & Renfro, S. (2006). The Biological Foundations of Social Organization: The Dynamic Emergence of Social Structure through Nonverbal Communication. In V. Manusov and Miles Patterson (Eds.). Handbook of Nonverbal Communication. Sage Publications. In press.
Iwamitsu, Y., & Buck, R. (2008). Toward psychological intervention for cancer: Emotional suppression, psychological distress, and coping with cancer. In L. K. Jacobs (Ed.), Coping with Cancer. (pp. 77-93). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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