Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism

Mark Hickson

Publications

• Research Article
  Touch Revisited: Observations and Methodological Recommendations
  Author(s): Julie Dutton, Ashleigh Johnson and Mark HicksonJulie Dutton, Ashleigh Johnson and Mark Hickson
  
  The authors studied the original source of a study undertaken decades earlier to determine its accuracy as well as the reporting of the study in textbooks. They found that the study had been exaggerated significantly. They revisited the touch study known as the “coffee house” study originally undertaken by Sidney Jourard. The present authors studied cafes in four different states with quite different results from Jourard... Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7912.1000348

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