Examines impact of variations in perceived intimacy on subjects' responses to a reasonably comprehensive list of compliance-gaining tactics. Questions 544 undergraduate students using an experimental recall method. Shows that situational variation in intimacy is associated with significant, nontrivial cross-situational differences in tactic…

Develops two scales based on the conceptualization of intercultural communication apprehension as the fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated interaction with people of different groups. States scales consisted of 16 items administered to 396 undergraduate student participants. Reveals a unidimensional factor structure and high…

Reports on 174 employees' and supervisors' memories of a conflict. Indicates that the emotional nature of the recollected narratives increased if the conflicts were perceived as unresolved, remembered as an ongoing series of events, or discussed with the other persons involved in the exchanges. Discusses ways recollected emotional narratives may…

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…

Investigates why conversational participants view their partner more positively than do conversation observers. Focuses on self-presentation concerns and cognitive load. Finds that cognitive load and self-presentation concerns both influenced evaluators to be more positive in their social judgments, but were distinctive in that self-presentation…

Shows that those with greater interest in politics, those who have extreme political views, and those who have paid attention to the election are more willing to be interviewed by a news reporter after a pre-election survey. Concludes that attitude strength plays a significant role in predicting willingness to express political views. (SR)

Replicates S. McCornack's 1992 study with the inclusion of explicit checks to determine the covertness of the purported deceptive messages and to check manipulation of information type. Finds that none of the results are consistent with information manipulation theory predictions, but that instead, the results uniformly support a model of…

Examines critically two articles in the same issue addressing deceptive messages. Shows one article's data to be inconsistent with the premise that deception derives solely from erroneous "Quality" implicatures. Argues that the conceptual definitions in the other article lack precision and that the proposed set of information dimensions…

Responds to an article appearing in this issue, that critically examines an article (also appearing in this issue) by these authors. Considers how the information management concept in Interpersonal Deception theory is related to Information Management Theory (called Information Manipulation Theory in earlier articles) and addresses criticisms of…

Responds to an article in the same issue critically examining a first article by these authors. Discusses conceptualizing deception, and discusses the two empirical objections raised regarding the authors' implicature model. Argues that IMT (Information Manipulation Theory) lacks any credible empirical support. (SR)

Synthesizes past studies of illness, stress, coping, and social support and offers a model of communicative support, based on problematic integration theory, that emphasizes two major dimensions of meaning in the breast cancer experience. Suggests that supportive messages are designed to help the breast cancer patient manage both perceptions of…

Notes that relational framing theory asserts that dominance-submission and affiliation-disaffiliation tend to displace each other as frames for processing social interaction. Replicates and extends previous tests of these claims by evaluating three hypotheses. Finds that results are consistent with all three of the hypotheses, but relational…

Makes three main points in response to their critics. Suggests multiple methodologies are appropriate for the study of almost any communication phenomenon and that organizational assimilation is akin to or encompasses many issues that have been stated as outside its parameters. Identifies with disagreements in the use of several concepts. (SC)