Indicates that undergraduate students' argumentativeness interacted to affect the number of arguments generated and the type of resolution reached: specifically, "high argumentatives" with "low argumentative" partners generated a significantly greater number of arguments, and were significantly more successful in gaining…

Contends the hierarchy principle demonstrates that, in response to communication failure, individuals make low-level changes to message plans rather than more demanding alterations to message content and structure. Examines effects of different message preparations on cognitive loads associated with high-level message plan alterations in three…

Investigates the legacy, logic, and consequences of the appellation "the new world of cyberspace" that connects cyberspace to the Columbian voyages of discovery and the larger network of European expansionism. Engages in a critical investigation of the colonial logic implied by this seemingly innocent taxonomy, and examines its…

Examines the emergence of social documentary photojournalism in the 1930s and its ideological implications. Examines James Agee and Walker Evans's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" as representative of the tensions between individualism and collectivism at the heart of liberal democracy. (SR)

Summarizes extant research investigating the relationships between managers' conflict management strategies and subordinate outcomes. Reports results of a study investigating relationships between a manager's use of collaborating, forcing, and accommodating and four types of rewards (system, job, performance, interpersonal) subordinates might…

Examines effects of two organizational design parameters, divisionalization and centralization, on the media richness choices of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of multinational enterprises in obtaining information from foreign subsidiaries on strategic issues. Samples 86 US multinationals; finds formal divisional structure affects CEOs' use of…

Analyzes the narratives of 113 visitors to the site of the film "Field of Dreams." Develops a theory that explains how interpretive communities are formed despite theoretical writings that argue for individualized interpretations of text. Demonstrates that individuals can at once converge and diverge symbolically within the confines of…

Compares identical and fraternal twins to determine if communicator style is inherited. Finds predictable relationships between Temperament and Communicator Style, with identical twins' scores more closely related than fraternal twins' scores on nearly every variable studied. (SR)

Argues that key documents of the Chicano movement--El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan and El Plan de Santa Barbara--can best be understood through their expression of ideographs. Suggests that these plans were deployed to secure support for the movement and to sustain a particular ideology. Suggests that the plans express the deep cultural roots of the…

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)

Investigates whether multiple-goal messages are, indeed, characterized by hesitations stemming from cognitive sources by examining the effects of advance preparation and task repetition on speech fluency. Produces evidence for cognitively based hesitations in multiple-goal messages, and notes there was little evidence of socially based pausing in…

Reports on a study in which subjects judged the veracity of truthful and deceptive communicators after viewing no, one, two, or four case-relevant baseline exposures (familiarity) of truthful communication. Finds a positive linear relationship between detection accuracy and amount of baseline familiarity. (SR)

Invites rhetorical critics to reappraise the way they study discreet social movements and pay isolated tribute to woman's rights figures. Examines how Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, and Angelina Grimke each co-opted the ideational and stylistic rhetorical characteristics of pre-existing social movements (the enlightenment,…

Tests a complex model of how audience members assess source credibility. Hypothesizes that (1) message quality has direct effects and mediates partially the effects of initial credibility assessments on subsequent source credibility assessments and on belief change; and (2) subsequent credibility assessments mediate effects of initial credibility…

Describes the Experience Sampling Method, a quasi-naturalistic method that involves signaling research subjects at random times throughout the day, and asking them to report on the nature and quality of their experience. Discusses the method's applications and value in research topics in organizational settings; with mass and mediated…