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Kahan, Lisa D.; Richards, D. Dean – Child Development, 1986
Examines the communication strategies adopted by people of differing ages attempting to perform a referential communication task and to determine their ability to adapt their strategies to various task conditions. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, College Students
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Smith, Mary John; And Others – Human Communication Research, 1981
Examines the quality of communicative interaction and task performance among younger and older women in relation to conversation distance and density. Results indicate that older persons exhibit positive communication behaviors in response to spatial intrusions while younger subjects show the negative, compensatory withdrawal behaviors normally…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, College Students, Communication Research