On Public Figure Howlers

Calhoun, Frederick S.; Weston, Stephen W.

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“…Anger has been found to play a critical role in various types of impulsive CWB toward both the organization and coworkers (Bonifield and Cole, 2007); however, those who experience anger do not always engage in aggressive behavior (Averill, 1983). For example, the expression of complaints may deter angry employees from executing CWB inside the organization (Calhoun and Weston, 2008). Also, Barclay and Kiefer (2014) argued that CWB driven by anger may be suppressed by situational strength through surveillance and risk of punishment.…”

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The relative impact of employees’ discrete emotions on employees’ negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) and counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB)

Lee

Liu

Maertz

2022

JPBM

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Purpose With the emergence of a variety of communication channels on social media, employees have more opportunities to engage with external stakeholders for or against their organizational brand. In such a context, focusing on negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) as an employee’s negative discretionary brand-oriented behavior, the current study aimed to identify negative emotions that can serve as drivers for NWOM more strongly than for counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB), relying on the discrete emotion perspective. This study also aimed to examine whether employees’ perceived brand knowledge can directly diminish employees’ NWOM and CWB and attenuate the influence of negative emotions. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was used to gather relevant data, which were analyzed by structural equation modeling. Findings The findings showed that anger was more strongly associated with employees’ NWOM than withdrawal and that envy was more strongly associated with CWB toward individuals than employees’ NWOM. Employees’ perceived brand knowledge was negatively associated with both NWOM and CWB directly and mitigated the association of negative emotions such as anger and envy with CWB, but not with NWOM. Originality/value Based on the discrete emotion perspective, the current study explored the relative magnitude of emotional antecedents for employees’ NWOM and conventional CWB. Also, it expanded the previous findings on the positive effects of perceived brand knowledge on the positive outcomes of employees’ actions and its mitigating effects on NWOM and CWB.

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The relative impact of employees’ discrete emotions on employees’ negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) and counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB)

Lee

Liu

Maertz

2022

JPBM

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“…The distinction between making and posing a threat, first enunciated by Fein, Vossekuil, and Holden (1995), and utilized in their ECSP study (Fein & Vossekuil, 1998, 1999), has permeated the threat assessment community over the past 20 years as an important theoretical construct and operational focus (Calhoun, 1998; Calhoun & Weston, 2003, 2008). The phrase challenged the historical assumption among both mental health and law enforcement professionals that those who made a direct threat posed the greatest risk, and articulated threats were central to threat assessment.…”

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Approaching and attacking public figures: A contemporary analysis of communications and behavior.

Meloy

2014

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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A review of the contemporary research on problematic communications, approaches, and attacks on public figures yields important findings. Analysis of both theory and empirical research is presented concerning the movement from communication to approach; the relationship among behavioral pathways, motivations, and psychiatric disorders; applied concepts such as fixation, grandiosity, and entitled reciprocity; a typology of superordinate and dynamic patterns of warning behaviors; the relevance of social media and the Internet; assassination and psychosis; the predatory and instrumental nature of public figure attacks; the politics of hatred and "lone terrorists;" leakage; new threat research; depression and suicidality; psychopathy; and threats to the children of public figures. Recommendations for threat assessment and future operational research are offered.

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“…There is precedent in the threat assessment literature that lends support to this possibility. For example, there is a common distinction between "hunters" and "howlers," where the former includes individuals who intend to harm other people while the latter applies to individuals seeking attention (Calhoun and Weston 2008). In addition, a Secret Service study conducted by Borum et al (1999) suggests individuals who make threats are not necessarily the individuals who pose the greatest risk and, in some cases, individuals who resort to violence do so without previously making direct threats.…”

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The Culture of Violent Talk: An Interpretive Approach

Simi

Windisch

2020

Social Sciences

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One of the defining characteristics of extremist movements is the adherence to an ideology highly antagonistic to the status quo and one that permits or explicitly promotes the use of violence to achieve stated goals and to address grievances. For members of extremist groups, talk is one of the most concrete manifestations of how adherents communicate their ideas to each other and the general public. These discussions, however, do not necessarily involve a direct correspondence between words and future behavior. To better understand the culture of violent talk, we investigate how white supremacist extremists use these discussions as a rhetorical device that provides them with a sense of doing and an opportunity to express their frustrations and anger. Our analysis is grounded primarily in the ethnographic data we collected on a variety of US white supremacists since 1997. Our investigation offers important insight regarding the interactional qualities of extremist culture as well as policy implications regarding the assessment process.

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On Public Figure Howlers

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The relative impact of employees’ discrete emotions on employees’ negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) and counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB)

The relative impact of employees’ discrete emotions on employees’ negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) and counterproductive workplace behavior (CWB)

Approaching and attacking public figures: A contemporary analysis of communications and behavior.

The Culture of Violent Talk: An Interpretive Approach

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