David J. Roaché

Earned tenure and promotion today. Time to take off work for the rest of 2025.

Shoutout to my co-authors for their contributions. And thanks to co-author @lieselsharabi.bsky.social for covering our findings in a recent Psychology Today post.

Happy to share a copy of the manuscript before it is officially published later this month. 5/5

Christian’s choice to act as if the effective love letters were his own reflects how contemporary singles may use AI to court potential partners. 4/5

We call this the Cyrano effect. In Rostand’s (1975) Cyrano de Bergerac, Christian struggles to competently convey his feelings to Roxanne, employing Cyrano to write love letters on his behalf. 3/5

In a new study, my co-authors and I found that date request messages modified from AI output were rated by objective judges as more effective and effortful than those written by humans or AI alone. However, participant ratings of messages did not vary by source. 2/5

AI might not help you find a soulmate, but it can help you write a smoother text to a romantic interest. 1/5

En route to #ICA25!

Excited to talk about our study on AI and date request text messages.

Saturday 6/14 3-4:15pm in Mineral B (Regency 3).

These results suggest that additional scholarship is needed to distinguish between actual smartphone use and perceptions of smartphone use. 6/

However, technological interference - when an individual perceives that their partner’s smartphone use prevents them from accomplishing their conversational objectives - was associated with greater dissatisfaction overall and at 1-minute intervals. 5/

We also coded for the amount of time a member of the dyad used their smartphone. Smartphone use (in seconds) was not associated with dissatisfaction. 4/

We tested this at the conversation level and at 1-minute intervals using a video-assisted recall procedure. Participants independently viewed and rated their conversation 1 minute at a time. 3/

Co-present smartphone use, but not an unused smartphone, was more dissatisfying for couples (compared to smartphone-absent interactions). 2/

Smartphones in Relational Conflicts: Examining When and How They Interfere This study investigates the influence of copresent smartphone use and presence on conflict interactions. Sixty-four dating couples (N = 128) completed one 10-minute in-person serial argument conver...

📢 New publication alert 📢

Thrilled to share our latest research published in the Southern Communication Journal. We examined the impact of co-present smartphone use on the conversation quality of face-to-face conflict interactions between romantic couples. #commsky 1/

doi.org/10.1080/1041...

Pepe the King Prawn meme saying "included this meme in my lecture today. Only one of my students knew it"

Pepe the King Prawn meme saying "and no one laughed at the meme I made for my slides"

I was humbled on the last day of classes today. Clearly, I spend more time online than my students.

NOOOOOOO 😭

Academic friends who are just joining Bluesky, here's a starter pack that may be helpful (media psych folks, please let me know if you'd like to be added or have recommendations for additions): go.bsky.app/2DHceaS

I suppose there is no better first post on here than to share my excitement about #NCA23. Fantastic co-authors on these two projects that get to be shared on the same panel on Saturday 11/18.