Amy Johnson

• COMM 1113 - Principles of Communication
• COMM 4243 - Family Communication 

Dr. Johnson is a Professor in the Department of Communication. She has also served as Graduate Liaison for the department. Her area is interpersonal communication.

Her research interests include long-distance relationships and computer-mediated communication, friendships, stepfamilies, and interpersonal argument. She has published in such venues as Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and Personal Relationships.

Johnson, A. J., & Bostwick, E. N. (in press). Arguing with family members about the 2016 Presidential Election: Characteristics of these political discussions. In D. Hample (Ed.), Local theories of argument. Taylor and Francis. 

Johnson, A. J., & Cionea, I. A. (2020). An exploratory mixed-method analysis of Twitter interpersonal arguments, characteristics, goals, and stress. In J. E. Rosenbaum and G. Bouvier (Eds.), #Talking points: Twitter and civic debate (pp. 205-232). Palgrave-Macmillan. 

Johnson, A. J., Cionea, I. A., Bostwick, E. N., Bassick, M. A., & Lindsey, N. J. (2020). Writing about serial arguments: The effects of manipulating argument perspective. In C. Winkler (Ed.), Networking argument. Taylor and Francis. 

Cionea, I. A., Johnson, A. J., & Bostwick, E. N. (2019). Argument interdependence and its effects on serial argument goals and tactics in romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 1975-1995. doi:10.1177/0265407518774933 

Johnson, A. J., Bostwick, E. N., & Cionea, I. A. (2019). Talking Turkey: Effects of Family Discussions about the 2016 Election over the Thanksgiving Holiday. Journal of Family Communication, 19, 63-76. doi: 10.1080/15267431.2018.1543688 

Bostwick, E. N., & Johnson, A. J. (in press). Family secrets: The influences of family communication patterns and parent-child conflict styles in the likelihood of telling a secret. Communication Reports.

Johnson, A. J., & Cionea, I. A. (2018). A new measure for argument topic interdependence in serial arguments. In R. Lake (Ed.), Recovering argument.
 
Johnson, A. J., Bostwick, E. N., & Bassick, M. (2017). Long-distance versus geographically close romantic relationships: The effects of social media on the development and maintenance of these relationships. In N. Punyanunt-Carter & J. S. Wrench (Eds.), Swipe right for love: The impact of social media in modern romantic relationships. Lexington Books.
 
Johnson, A. J. (2017). Reliability of measurement. The SAGE encyclopedia of communication research methods (pp. 1425-1429). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
 
Johnson, A. J. (2017). Reliability, Cronbach’s Alpha. The SAGE encyclopedia of communication research methods (pp. 1415-1417). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
 
Roper, R., Johnson, A. J., & Bostwick, E. N. (2017).  A target’s perspective: Verbal aggressiveness, coping strategies, and relational harm. Communication Research Reports, 34, 21-28.
 
Johnson, A. J., & Cionea, I. (2016). Serial arguments in interpersonal relationships: Current knowledge and future directions. In J. A. Samp (Ed.), Communicating interpersonal conflict in close relationships: Contexts, challenges, and opportunities (pp. 111-127). New York: Routledge.
 
Johnson, A. J., Bostwick, E., & Anderson, C. (2016). How do computer-mediated channels negatively impact existing interpersonal relationships? In Eletra Gilchirst Petty and Shawn D. Long (Eds.), Contexts of the Dark Side of Communication (pp. 241-252). New York: Peter Lang.
 
Johnson, A. J. (2016). Communication in stepfamilies. In C. Berger and M. Roloff
(Eds.), International encyclopedia of interpersonal communication. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley.

Cionea, I. A., Johnson, A. J., Bruscella, J. S., & Van Gilder, B. (2015). Taking conflict personally and the use of the demand/withdraw pattern in intraethnic serial arguments. Argumentation and Advocacy, Special Issue: 30 Years of Research, 52, 32-43.  

Dunbar, N. E., & Johnson, A. J. (2015). A test of dyadic power theory: Control attempts used in interpersonal conflict, Journal of Argumentation in Context, 4, 42-62.