Notes a link between sexual resistance and the violation of the resisted partner's expectations. Examines the resisted individual's perception of sexual resistance message directness and relational context in terms of violation valence, violation importance, and violation expectedness among a group of undergraduate students. Indicates that…

Tests the degree to which adolescents and young adults felt caught between their parents as a mediator between divorce and children's avoidance and satisfaction with them. Reveals that divorce was largely associated with avoidance and satisfaction through children's feelings of being caught, which were a function of their parents' demand-withdraw…

Presents an alternative perspective for understanding the ego-defensive model in which a message threatening to a salient aspect of self-concept, as opposed to a non-threatening message, initiates ego-defensiveness resulting in more negative message-related thoughts, discounting message content, and source derogation. Suggests a new way of…

Assesses organizational images, and indexes the degree of similarity between members' images. Finds positive relationships between image similarity, organizational commitment, and communication and shows that the strength of these relationships varies with type of organizational membership, type of image, and type of communication. (SR)

Examines the experiential attitude function and tests whether a message targeted at this function would elicit attitude change in 139 undergraduate students. Finds that although the functional target of the message was not related to posttest attitudes, conformity to message recommendations was contingent upon the discrepancy between the…

Explains that the cognitive-functional model of discrete negative emotions and attitude change attempts to bridge the theoretical gap between "emotional" and "rational" approaches to persuasion by focusing on how emotions motivate attention to and processing of persuasive messages. Explores the effects two emotions, anger and fear, and two levels…

Examines and challenges theories of account giving and public image following an accusation of sexual harassment in the workplace, using college students and working adults as subjects. Challenges the existing theories of account giving and public image, and lays to rest the notion that full apologies and excuses are mitigating in serious account…

Proposes and tests an affective model of policy reasoning with television use as a first stage variable in a heuristic causal chain. Tests the power of the model to explain how citizens (undergraduate students) make up their minds regarding government policies on affirmative action, with stereotypes of African Americans as the second stage,…

Investigates fundamental beliefs regarding cross-cultural differences in conflict styles. Indicates that assumptions regarding the relationship of culture to conflict style preferences may not be valid. Finds that, among 188 graduate students from 31 countries residing in the United States, collectivists prefer compromising and integrating more…

Examines the language strategies used in everyday explanation by young heterosexual Australian college students to attribute blame for the transmission of HIV. Finds that speakers blamed outgroups more than ingroups; blamed outgroups at higher levels of responsibility than ingroups; but did not use more justifications for ingroups. Notes overt…