Examines media coverage of a gubernatorial election, suggesting that: (1) gender may be a larger factor in selecting policy stories over "horse race" stories; (2) coverage of the horse race has greater impact on election outcome than coverage of policy issues; and (3) a woman will be more successful in an election if she presents herself…

Shows two experiments at Delft University of Technology support the conclusion that an introduction makes audiences more willing to listen to a speech. States subjects (in experiment 1) viewed videotapes of professional presentations on "Sick Building Syndrome." Indicates audiences respond to exordial techniques in a predictable manner.…

Examines research (in communication theory and in cognitive neural sciences) which supports the view that mindful and mindless communicative behavior coexist and operate in complementary fashion during information processing. Argues that current communication pedagogy does not reflect this emerging model and that adaptations in content and…

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…

Shows that recollections of state speaking anxiety decreased over time, and that the rate of attenuation was associated with the speaker's level of trait speaking anxiety. Finds also that recollections of state speaking anxiety (implicit memory) were attenuated over time, and that the magnitude of this decline was predicted by the speaker's level…

Proposes a model of organizational change by describing organizational change as a discursive process, sparked by a rhetorical conflict in an organization's narratives and images. Examines the educational assumptions and theories that structured a training course used by a company that was restructuring and reorganizing. (SG)

Identifies key conceptions of communication "sources" in the literature. Proposes a typology of sources that applies to traditional media and new online media. Evaluates this typology: confirms distinctions made in the typology, finding that attribution of identical content to four different types of online sources by undergraduate…

Discusses possible leveling of status differentials within organizations, examining differential address forms (using first name or title/last name). Explores the pivotal role of naming in elaborating/leveling status differences, shifts in norms regarding naming within corporations, and how the social dynamics of naming illuminate inherent…

Compares guided visualization (involving guided imagery) with self-constructed imagery (involving developing one's own visualization script). Finds no differences between guided visualization and self-constructed visualization in terms of reducing communication apprehension or negative thinking, but finds both procedures superior to no treatment…

States that recent developments in critical organization studies suggest that feminist theory and research provide an additional domain of inquiry. Explores the intersection of feminism and postmodernism and its potential value for organizational communication studies. Suggests the concept of gendered rationality as a useful way of framing this…

Describes procedures for constructing story-based causal diagrams. Discusses the cognitive and pragmatic constraints that govern the tendency to attribute events to incomplete causes. Uses causal diagrams to analyze major disagreements about the 1987 stock market crash. Explores how causal diagrams may mitigate the constraints on causal…

Finds limited usefulness of the demographic variables in explaining communication satisfaction reaffirms for the importance of viewing organizational communication within the contingency framework finds the communication satisfaction framework provided a useful tool for explaining end-product variables and was more effective in explaining job…

Discusses how communication researchers should use evidence. Shows the similarities between legal and scholarly evidence using illustrations from the O. J. Simpson case. Identifies similarities between the use of evidence in legal and in communication research forums; delineates parallels between the genres of evidence used in the two contexts;…

Investigates the impact of format and source on attitudes and behavioral intentions of an audience receiving a corporation's advocacy message. Suggests that news stories may be more effective than ads, and that a CEO (chief executive officer) appears more persuasive than an outside authority because the CEO can generate more interest among the…

States that recent studies on first-date expectations and enactments indicated that men evaluate female-initiated first dates in more sexual ways than do females. Cautions that results also indicate that participants reported less intimacy on such dates. Uses expectancy violation theory to investigate the conflicting results. Finds that…