Analyzes self-disclosure in terms of positive and negative participant attraction, and degree of message intimacy. (MH)

Offers evidence indicating that a higher level of trust is associated with more consciously intended and greater amounts of self disclosure. (MH)

Describes a study designed to test the circumplexical order hypothesis at the phenomenological level of conscious communication. (MH)

Investigates the effects of disclosure as perceived by the recipient with specific attention given to the recipient's level of self-esteem. (MH)

Studies the ways in which information disclosed early in a relationship is used to form predictions about probable attitudes of the other person, and subsequent communication behavior as the relationship progresses. (MH)

Presents the foundation of a communicator style construct which is stipulated to include communication variables which reflect the "way one verbally and paraverbally interacts to signal how literal meaning should be taken, interpreted, filtered, or understood." (MH)

Reexamines the conceptualization, measurement, and relationships among trust, disclosure and interpersonal solidarity. (MH)

Demonstrates the value of the concept of social cost in analyzing the cognitive processes underlying the encoding of convergent speech acts. (MH)