Examines effects of event type, sex of participant, and sex of target on comforting messages. Finds comforting messages more sensitive in response to major events than daily events; females generally comforted more sensitively than males; and comforting messages directed toward females were more sensitive than those towards males. Shows…

Expands the literature on the educational role of immediacy by exploring the relationship between touch during student/professor interactions and students' evaluations of the professor and the interaction. Indicate that student sex, professor reward value, and location of touch have significant influence on students' evaluations of professors and…

Working from prior findings on the relationship between transgression, intent, guilt, and other factors, researchers reviewed a series of studies of undergraduate students. The students were offered varying hypothetical scenarios in which a member in a heterosexual relationship meets a friend of the opposite sex in a bar. In each case, after…