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Surviving or Thriving? Demographics Differences in Mindset across the Introductory Communication Course
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Nordin, Karin; Broeckelman-Post, Melissa A. – Communication Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate communication mindset changes across one semester of the introductory communication course and differences across students' demographic backgrounds. The study measured the communication mindset and other instructional constructs of 1299 undergraduate students during the first two and last two weeks of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Communication Research, Introductory Courses, Public Speaking
Thin Slices of Public Speaking: A Look into Speech Thin Slices and Their Effectiveness in Accurately Predicting Whole-Speech Quality
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Ismail, Mohamed – Communication Center Journal, 2016
The term "Thin Slice," first coined and defined by Ambady and Rosenthal (1992), is a brief sample of behavior, not exceeding five minutes in length, extracted from the full-length behavior stream. These thin slices are an efficient means to form judgments and predict outcomes of interpersonal relations from the full-length behavior…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Evaluation Methods, Behavior, Interpersonal Communication