Giovanni Rossi

@gio-rossi.bsky.social

Social Interaction, Action and Understanding, Body Behavior, Conversation Analysis, Mixed Methods, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Systems Thinking. Associate Professor at UCLA Sociology.

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Giovanni Rossi @gio-rossi.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 Now available in print worldwide 🌍 If access is a challenge, don't hesitate to reach out 💫 doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

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Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social · 11d

When we ask for something big—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection or assume success? With @gio-rossi.bsky.social & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic, even though big requests often meet resistance. Published open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social. #EMCA

Incurable Optimism about Getting What We Want: Anticipating Success in Everyday Requests

When asking for something significant from another person, speakers not only set the tilt of the question toward the affirmative or negative but also display an optimistic or pessimistic stance tow...

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Gus Cooney @guscooney.bsky.social · Oct 7

Recruiting PhD students!

Join my new lab @Dartmouth Psychology! Looking for students who want to decode the science of conversation together. We'll study conversational dynamics, impression formation, and face-to-face interaction.

Feel free to reach out with questions!

Due Dec 1
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Application Management- Guarini

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Elliott Hoey @elliotthoey.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨

on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society

🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

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Galina Bolden @galinabolden.bsky.social · Aug 19

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
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Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)

The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in language, interaction, and interpersonal communication. The search i...

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Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social · Aug 10

I have one more presentation during #ASA2025! On Monday at 2pm come listen to me talk about how conflict between Christian Right activists and Southern Baptist missionary executives led to bureaucratic centralization that no one wanted: tinyurl.com/29czdf2q

Social and Organizational Forces Influencing Religious Actors

This session investigates how religious actors and institutions are shaped by broader social, legal, and organizational forces. Papers explore the impact of legal and cultural shifts on religious beha...

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Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social · Aug 9

Calling all early birds! Check out this great session at the Association for the Sociology of Religion on Sunday at 8:30. I'll be presenting a piece of my book project on covert evangelism and international missions. Hope to see you there!

ASR Panel Session:

A5: Religion in and against the State
Room: Lakeshore Ballroom West
Coevolution of Religion and the State: Metaphors of God and
Legitimate Domination
Andrew McKinnon, University of Aberdeen

Learning to Lie: Southern Baptist Missionaries Working with
and against the Chinese State, 1979-1992
Andrew Chalfoun, University of California, Los Angeles

Aristocratic Political Spirituality in the Islamic Republic of
Iran (The Luxury Mausoleum of Khomeini: Reasons and
Representations)
Zahra Khoshk Jan, University of Chicago

A Comparative Analysis of Sacred Stories and Their Impact
in the Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions
Jean-Pierre Reed, Southern Illinois Univ; Babak Rahimi,
Univ of California San Diego; Soodeh Mansouri, Univ of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Religion and Local Government Officials’ Attitudes toward
Transgender Rights Policies in the United States
Jonathan Coley, Oklahoma State Univ; Gary Adler, Penn
State Univ; Eric Plutzer, Penn State Univ; Damon Mayrl,
Colby College; Rebecca Sager, Loyola Marymount Univ;
Gabby Gomez, Macalester College

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Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you're going to be in Chicago tomorrow (August 6) come to the Voco hotel at 11am to catch my presentation, "Typical Expectations and the Moral Order: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel, and the Sticky Problem of Meaning" at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction @sijournal.bsky.social!