Research into visual and multimodal rhetoric has been dominated by social scientific textual perspectives that may not be able to provide documented understandings of how rhetorical objects are actually experienced an audience. In this study, the authors engage in protocol analysis through 10 in-depth interviews asking informants make sense selected political advertisements 2020 US election cam...

People tend to grossly underestimate the trustworthiness of other people. We tested whether this cynicism grows out of an asymmetry in the feedback people receive when they decide to trust others. When people trust others, they painfully learn when other people prove to be untrustworthy; however, when people refrain from trusting others, they fail to learn of instances when the other person wou...

How capitalist organizations ensure the obedience of its members has long been a matter of discussion. Behind the idealism of “market freedom” lie more troubling realities of daily subordination and ideologies of conformity. Increasingly scholars have studied the effect of subjugating subjectivities present in capitalist production. Two specific features of modern capitalism have been the utili...

This three-wave study explored whether living a calling (at work) mediated the relation between unnecessary tasks (time wasting work tasks) and socio-contextual performance at (cynicism, organizational citizenship behavior). Participants were 518 Finnish white- blue-collar employees, who followed up in 2018, 2019, 2020. The results of structural equation modeling showed that Time 1 related nega...

We explore the role of deeply held beliefs, known as social axioms, in the context of employee– organization relationships. Specifically, we examine how the beliefs identified as social cynicism and reward for application moderate the relationship between employees’ work-related experiences, perceptions of CSR (corporate social responsibility), attitudes, and behavioral intentions toward their ...