Finds that people with communication apprehension (CA) who were exposed to visualization reported lower trait and state CA as well as higher attraction levels than those in control or placebo conditions. (SR)

Finds that a high, rather than a low, sense of humor facilitated the reduction of uncertainty and also served to reduce social distance between interactants. Supports the facilitative nature of humor in the development of interpersonal relations. (SR)

Indicates that cognitive complexity is not associated with the overall pattern of topic selection; however, communicators with high cognitive complexity used significantly fewer situationally-evoked topics than their low cognitive complexity counterparts when situational variation was considered. (SR)

Discusses several problems with the introspective approach to communication theory, which takes evidence of interpersonal processes and translates this evidence into corresponding internal surrogates such as self concept, attitude, and mental maps. (SR)

Examines the relationship between an individual's ability to differentiate communication with his or her sensitivity to conversation. Shows a link between conversational sensitivity and cognitive complexity. (SR)

Finds that women use more justifiers, intensifiers, and agreement, whereas men exhibit more vocalized pauses and also receive more vocalized pauses; conversations of mixed-sex dyads contain more overlaps and, marginally, more interruptions than conversations of same-sex dyads; but that interruptions and overlaps were not performed more frequently…

Finds that elaborated audio narrative structure increased resources allocated to a message and memory for the message; increased video narrative structure did not influence resource allocation but did increase memory; and messages were recalled in narrative form regardless of the narrative structure of the message. (SR)

Finds that women embarrassed men at "coed" wedding and baby showers by teasing and causing them to look unpoised, and that men used avoidance, humor, remediation, and justification strategies. Adds a new strategy, compliance, to previous frameworks to explain males' reaction to embarrassment. Discusses the importance of context and…

Confirms the value of uncertainty for understanding jealousy. Finds that subjects were more likely to experience and less likely to directly express jealousy at high, versus low, levels of relational state uncertainty. Highlights the importance of differentiating jealousy experience from expression, and corroborates recent evidence showing a…

Reveals four types of flirtation behavior: display, stereotyped, attentiveness, and conversational behaviors. Reveals that although both cross-sex platonic and romantically involved partners report using flirtation to varying degrees, how flirtatiousness is actually displayed and how it relates to evaluations of appropriateness and communication…

Explains that when organizations face crises, their rhetorical response often follows two steps: assessment of causes leading to the crisis, and a search for potential solutions and preventive measures for the future. States that epideictic rhetoric designed to sustain or regain the organization's reputation is effective in both steps. Examines…

Determines whether visualization can enhance students' public speaking performance and reduce speech anxiety. Finds that standard visualization and performance visualization reduce negative thinking, state communication anxiety (CA), and trait CA. Finds that performance visualization results in fewer disfluencies, less rigidity, and less…

Develops an issue involvement moderated dual process model of choice shifts, from Chaiken's work on systematic and heuristic processing of persuasive messages. Compares the dual process model with persuasive arguments and social comparison models and finds it better fits the data. (SR)

Uses value analysis to examine the rhetoric of a large multinational high-technology organization, focusing on the value-oriented arguments that emerge from the rhetorical strategies utilized in the organization's recruitment and entry level practices. Notes the recurrent rhetorical strategy of stating only the organization's positive values. (MM)

Links decoding ability to interpersonal cognitive complexity and to person-centered verbal adaptiveness. Finds females more likely than males to be higher in interpersonal cognitive complexity and person-centered verbal ability, and that the influence of sex washes out the relationship of nonverbal decoding ability and cognitive complexity with…