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Academic Publications

Publications by James T. Kitchens

“Discriminant Analysis as an Instrument for Political Analysis,” Southern Speech Communication Journal, 40 (Spring, 1975), 313-320. (With J. Larry Powell)

An Experimental Study of Campaign Issues and Candidates’ Personality traits as Influencing Variables on Voting Behavior, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida, 1975; Dissertation Abstracts International, (September, 1975), 1168.

“Elements of Participant Satisfaction in Dyads,” Southern Speech Communication Journal, 41 (Fall, 1975), 59-68. (With J. Larry Powell)

“The Influence of Selected Variables on the Employment Interview Situation,” Journal of Applied Communication Research, 3 (April, 1975), 33-53.

“The Effects of Campaign Communication on Voter Group Attitudes: A Model of Separation and Clustering,” Kentucky Journal of Communication Arts, (Spring, 1976), 15-21.

“The Influence of Sex Differences in Speech Evaluation: Situational and Media Effects,” Communication Education, 26 (March, 1977), 143-153. (With Doug Bock and J. Larry Powell)

“A Critical Review of Campaign Techniques: Elections and Values in Contemporary Democracies,” Journal of Applied Communication Research, (April, 1977), 42-43.

“Environmental Esthetics and Interpersonal Attraction,” Western Journal of Speech Communication, (Spring, 1977), 126-130. (With Ralph Behnke)

 “A Psychological Pattern of Anxiety in Public Speaking,” Communication Quarterly, (Fall, 1977), 44-46. (With Ralph Behnke and Larry Carlile)

“Challenge to the Rule of Minimum Effect: A Case Study of the In Man-Out Man Strategy,” Southern Speech Communication Journal, (Winter, 1979), 176-190.

 “A Critical Analysis of NCPAC’s Strategies in Key 1980 Races: A Third Party Negative Campaign,” Southern Speech Communication Journal, 51 (Spring, 1986), 208-228.

 “Analyzing Campaign Strategies: Contingencies, Assumptions, and Techniques,” Southeastern Political Review, 14 (Fall, 1986), 161-179. (With J. Larry Powell)

 “Ticket Splitting: Dead or Alive?”, Campaign & Elections, June, 1994, 34-35. (With J. Larry Powell)

 “Sex and Income as Factors Associated with Exposure to Jokes About the Clinton-Lewinsky Controversy,” Psychological Reports, (1999), 1047-1050. (With J. Larry Powell)

“Equipment Malfunctions and Attribution of Causality,” Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2000, 41-46. (With J. Larry Powell)

 “Factors Influencing Opinions about Urban Growth and Development: Measuring Resistance to Urban Development,” North American Journal of Psychology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2002, 133-142. (With J. Larry Powell)

“Information Please? Information Seeking Mass Media, and the Undecided Voter,” Communication Research Reports, vol 20, no. 1, Winter, 2003, pp. 73-80. (With J. Larry Powell and Glenda Williams)

“The Psychology of Persuasive Messaging: The Four Pillars of the American Psyche,” Campaign and Elections, May 2006, pp. 45-46.

“The Economics of Voting: Pocketbook Issues in U.S. Elections.” Voting in America vol 2, ed. Morgan E. Felchner, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT., 2008, pp. 113-121.

Dr. Jim Kitchens served as pollster and message consultant for Governor John Bel Edwards campaign. John Bel Edwards election was called the biggest upset in Louisiana political history by the Baton Rouge Advocate. It is the first time in modern Southern politics that a candidate elevated himself from the State House of Representatives to the Governorship.

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