Notes for

Fess up or Stonewall? An Experimental Test of Prior Reputation and
Response Style in the Face of Negative News Coverage

1 Shari Caudron, "Forget Image: It's Reputation That Matters," Industry Week 246:3 (February 13, 1997), 13; Carol Davenport, "America's Most Admired Corporations," Fortune 68 (January 1989), 30; Christine Gorman, "Listen Here Mr. Big! Corporate Misbehavior is Sparking Fevered Outburst of Consumer Protests and Boycotts," Time 134:1 (July 3, 1989), 40; Paul Holmes "Reputation Management: Earning a Reputation and Leveraging it for Success," Reputation Management 1:1 (January/February 1995), 9-16; Walter Kiechel, "The Value of a Reputation," Fortune 6 (March 1995), 6; Bill Patterson, "Crises Impact on Reputation Management," Public Relations Journal 49:11 (November 1993), 48; Rayna Skolnik, "Portraits of 'Most Admired' Companies: How Public Relations Helps Build Corporate Reputations," Public Relations Journal 50:5 (May 1994), 14-18; Alan Towers, "Reputation Management: Path to Ascendancy," Public Relations Journal 49:1 (January 1993), 25.

2 Bob Druckenmiller, "Crises Provide Insight on Image," Business Marketing 78 (August 1993), 40.

3 Ibid; Patterson, "Crises Impact on Reputation Management."

4 Otto Lerbinger, "How to Protect the Company's Reputation," Purview 427 (September 15, 1997), 1.

5 Patterson, "Crises Impact on Reputation Management."

6 Druckenmiller, "Crises Provide Insight"; Caudron, "Forget Image."

7 John F. Budd, "How to Manage Corporate Reputations," Public Relations Quarterly 39:4 (Winter 1994), 11-15.

8 Keith Weigelt and Colin Camerer, "Reputation and Corporate Strategy: A Review of Recent Theory and Application," Strategic Management Journal 9 (1998), 443-454.

9 Sue Annis Hammond and John W. Slocum, "The Impact of Prior Firm Financial Performance on Subsequent Corporate Reputation," Journal of Business Ethics 15 (1996), 159-165; G. E. Fryxell and J. Wang, "The Fortune Corporate 'Reputation' Index: Reputation for What?" Journal of Management 20:1 (1994), 1-14; Charles Frombrun and Mark Shanley, " What's in a Name? Reputation, Building and Corporate Startegy," Academy of Management Journal 33:1 (1990), 233-258.

10 Hammond and Slocum, "The Impact of Prior Firm Financial Performance."

11 Niranjan Raman and Eric Haley, "Measuring Organizational Source Credibility: A Sacale Development Study," Procedings From The American Academy of Advertising Conference (1997) St. Louis, MO, 150-155.

12 Budd, "How to Manage Corporate Reputations"; Gunther Headrich, "Images and Strategic Corporate and Marketing Planning," Journal of Public Relations Research 5:2 (1993), 83-93; Mary Ann Moffitt, "A Cultural Studies Perspective Toward Understanding Corporate Image: A Case Study of State Farm Insurance," Journal of Public Relations Research 6:1 (1994), 41-66.

13 D. B. Bromley, Reputation, Image and Impression Management (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993); Haedrich, "Images and Stragetic Corporate Marketing Planning."

14 Marvin Goldberg and Jon Hartwick,"The Effects of Advertiser Reputation and Extremity of Advertiser Claim on Advertiser Effectiveness," Journal of Consumer Research 17 (1990), 172-179.

15 Bromley, Reputation, Image and Impression Management.

16 Davis Young, "Looking at Your Comapny's Fragile Reputation," Public Relations Quarterly 40:4 (Winter 1995), 7-13.

17 Marjorie Richey, Robert Koenigs, Harold Richey and Richard Fortin, "Negative Salience in Impressions of Character," Journal of Social Psychology 97 (1975), 233-241; Marsha Richins, "Negative Word-of-Mouth by Dissatisfied Customers," Journal of Marketing 47 (1983), 68-78.

18 Marc Weinberger and William Dillion, "The Effects of Unfavorable Product Rating Information," Advances in Consumer Research 7 (1980), 528-532.

19 Richard Mizerski, "An Attribution Explanation of Disproportionate Influence of Unfavorable Information," Journal of Consumer Research 9 (1982), 301-310.

20 Norman Miller and Donald Campbell, " Recency and Primacy in Persuasion as a Function of Timing of the Speech and Measurement," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 59 (1959), 1-9.

21 Noreen Wales Kruse, "The Scope of Apologetic Discourse: Establishing Generic Parameters," The Southern Speech Communication Journal 46 (1981), 278-291; B. L. Ware and Wil A. Linkugel, "They Spoke in Defense of Themselves: On the Generic Defense of Apologia," Quarterly Journal of Speech 59 (1973), 274-283.

22 Timothy Coombs, "Choosing the Right Words: The Devlopment of Guidelines for the Selection of the 'Appropriate' Crisis Response Strategies," Management Communication Quarterly 8:4 (1995), 447-476; W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Holladay, "Communication and Attributions in a Crisis: An Experimental Study in Crisis Communication," Journal of Public Relations Research 8:4 (1996), 279-295; Keith Michael Hearit, "On the Use of Transcendence as an Apologia Strategy: The Case of Johnson Controls and Its Fetal Protection Policy," Public Relations Review 23:3 (1997), 217-231; D. L. Sherrel and R. E. Reidenbach, "A Consumer Response Framework for Negative Publicity: Suggestions for Response Strategies," Akron Business Review 17 (1986), 37-43.

23 Coombs, "Choosing the Right Words"; Coombs and Holladay, "Communication and Attributions in a Crisis."

24 Timothy Coombs, "An Analytic Framework for Cirsis Situations: Better Responses from a Better Understanding," Journal of Public Relations Research 10:3 (1998), 177-191.

25 Coombs, "An Analytic Framework."

26 Coombs, "Choosing the Right Words."

27 Coombs and Holladay, "Communication and Attributions in a Crisis."

28 Barry Brummett, "Towards a Theory of Silence as Political Strategy," Quarterly Journal of Speech 66 (1980), 289-303.

29 Hearit, "On the Use of Transcendence."

30 Sherrel and Reidenbach, "A Consumer Response Framework."

31 Lisa Tyler, "Liability Means Never Having to Say You Are Sorry: Corporate Guilt, Legal Constraints and Defensiveness in Corporate Communication," Management Quarterly 11 (1997), 51-73.

32 Glen Cameron, "Does Publicity Outperform Advertising? An Experimental Test of Third Party Endorsement," Journal of Public Relations Research 6:3 (1994), 185-207; James Grunig and Todd Hunt, Managing Public Relations (New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1984); D. L. Wilcox, P. H. Ault and W. K. Agee, Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics (New York: Harper and Row, 1989).

33 Martin Fishbein, "A Behavior theory Approach to the Relations Between Beliefs About and Object and Attitude Toward the Object," Readings in Attitude Theory and Measurement (New York: Wiley, 1967); A. G. Greewald, "Cognitive Learning, Cognitive Response to Persuasion and Attitude Change," in A. G. Greenwald, T. C Brock and T. M. Ostrom (eds.) Psychological Foundation of Attitudes (New York: Academic Press, 1968); C. I. Hovland, I. L. Janis and H. H. Kelly Communication and Persuasion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953); C. I. Hovland, A. A. Lumsdaine, and F. D. Sheffield, Experiments in Mass Communication, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949); W. J. McGuire, "Inducing Resistance to Persuasion: Some Contemporary Approaches," in L. Berowitz (ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 1 (New York: Academic Press, 1973), 171-189; Miller and Campbell, "Recency and Primacy in Persuasion"; R. E. Petty and J. T. Cacioppo, Attitudes and Persuasion: Classic and Contemporary Approaches (Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Co. Publishers, 1981).

34 T. D . Cook and B. R. Flay, "The Persistence of Experimentally Induced Attitude Change," in L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (New York: Academic Press, 1978), 23.

35 Cook and Flay, 25.

36 Miller and Campbell, "Primacy and Recency in Persuasion"; Warner Wilson and Howard Miller, "Repetition, Order of Presentation, and Timing of Arguments and Measures as Determinants of Opinion Change," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 9 (1968), 184-188; Charles Gruder, Thomas Cook, Karen Hennigan, Brian Flay, Cynthia Alessis, and Jerome Halamaj, "Empirical Tests of the Absolute Sleeper Effect Predicted from the Discounting Cue Hypothesis," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36 (1978), 1061-1074; D. L. Ronis, "Reputation and Agreement With Opposing Arguments: A Delayed Action Effect," Journal of Experimental Psychology 16 (1980), 376-387.

37 P. M. Homer and L. R. Kahle, "Source Expertise, Time of Source Identification, and Involvement in Persuasion: An Elaborative Processing Perspective," Journal of Advertising 19:1 (1990), 30-39; C. A. Insko, "Primacy Versus Recency in Persuasion as a Function of Timing of Arguments and Measures," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 69 (1964), 381-391; D. J. O'Keefe, "The Persuasive Effects of Dleaying Identification of High and Low Credibility Communicators: A Meta Analysis Review," Central States Speech Journal 38:2 (1987), 63-72; Brian Sternthal, Lynn Phillips, and Ruby Dholakia, "The Persuasive Effects of Source Credibility: A Situational Analysis," Public Opinion Quarterly 42 (1978), 285-314.

38 Glen Cameron, "Does Publicity Outperform Advertising? An Experimental Test of the Third-Party Endorsement," Journal of Public Relations Research 6:3 (1994), 185-207.

39 C. I. Hovland, A. A. Lumsdaine and F. D. Sheffield, Experiments in Mass Communication (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949).

40 Carl Hovland and Walter Weiss, "The Influence of Source Credibility on Communication Effectiveness," Public Opinion Quarterly 15 (1951), 635-650; Walter Weiss, "A 'Sleeper Effect' in Opinion Change," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 48 (1953), 173-180.

41 Shelly Chaiken, "Heuristic Versus Systematic Information Processing and the Use of Source Versus Message Cues in Persuasion," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39 (1980), 752-766; Noel Capon, and James Hulbert, "The Sleeper Effect—An Awakening," Public Opinion Quarterly 37 (1973), 333-358; J. E. Maddux & R. W. Rogers, "Effects of Source Expertise, Physical Attractiveness, and Supporting Arguments on Persuasion: A Case of Brains Over Beauty," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 39 (1980), 235-244; J. O. Whittaker and R. D. Meade, "Retention of Opinion Change as a Function of Differential Source Credibility: A Cross-Cultural Study," International Journal of Psychology 3 (1968), 103-108.

42 C. L. Gruder, T. D. Cook, K. M. Hennigan, B. R. Flay, C. Alessis, and J. Halamaj, "Empirical Tests of the Absolute Sleeper Effect Predicted From the Discounting Cue Hypothesis," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36 (1978), 1061-1074.

43 P. M. Gillig and A. G. Greenwald, "Is it Time to Lay the Sleeper Effect to Rest?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 29 (1974), 132-139.

44 T. D. Cook, C. L. Gruder, K. M. Hennigan, and B. R. Flay, "History of the Sleeper Effect: Some Logical Pitfalls in Accepting the Null Hypothesis," Psychological Bulletin 86 (1979), 662-679.

45 A. R. Pratkanis, A. G. Greenwald, M. R. Leippe, and M. H. Baumgardner, "In Search of Reliable Persuasion Effects: III. The Sleeper Effect is Dead. Long Live the Sleeper Effect," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54 (1988), 203-218.

46 Endel Tulving, Elements of Episodic Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).

47 Pratkanis, Greenwald, Leippe, and Baumgardner, "In Search of Reliable Persuasion Effects: III. The Sleeper Effect is Dead. Long Live the Sleeper Effect," 216.

48 Ibid., 215.

49 Petty and Cacioppo, Attutudes and Persuasion: Classic and Contemporary Approaches (Dubuque, IA: Brown, 1981).

50 G. M. Broom and D. M. Dozier, Using Research in Public Relations: Applications to Program Management (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990).

51 D. McQuail, Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1984).

52 J. E. Grunig and T. Hunt, Managing Public Relations (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984).

53 J. E. Grunig and Linda Childers, "Reconstruction of a Situational Theory of Communication: Internal and External Concepts as Identifiers for Publics for AIDS," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Portland, OR (1988).

54 J. E. Grunig, D. M. Dozier, W. P. Ehling, L. A. Grunig, C. F. Repper, and J. White, Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992).

55 D. L. Wilcox, P. H. Ault and W. K. Agee, Public Relations Strategies and Tactics, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).

56 Michael Slater and Donna Rouner, "How Message Evaluation and Source Attributes May Influence Credibility Assessment and Belief Change," Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 72:4 (1996), 974-991.