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Street, Richard L., Jr.; Murphy, Thomas L. – Communication Monographs, 1987
Indicates that (1) males with low interpersonal orientation (IO) were least vocally active and expressive and least consistent in their speech performances, and (2) high IO males and low IO females tended to demonstrate greater speech convergence than either low IO males or high IO females. (JD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Benjamin, Barbaranne J. – 1982
A study investigated differences between older adult male and female voice patterns. In addition, the study examined whether certain differences between male and female speech characteristics were lifelong and not associated with the aging process. Subjects were 10 young (average age 30) and 10 old (average age 75) males and 10 young (average age…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Communication Research, Females
Barten, Sybil S. – 1980
Data on four infants between the ages of 12 and 20 months were collected to answer two questions about children's communication behavior. (1) Is there a correspondence between communicative intentions expressed in gestures and vocal utterances? If both spring from common organismic tendencies, it should be possible to discern an "indicating"…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Research, Infants, Language Acquisition
Arntson, Paul H.; And Others – 1977
The two studies of predisposition toward verbal behavior (PVB) reported in this paper examined the behavior of interactants who have dissimilar verbal predispositions in task-oriented discussions. In the first study, 20 groups of three members each were given an interpersonal task that involved reaching a consensus. In the second study, 17 pairs…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Group Behavior, Interaction, Interpersonal Competence
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Lituchy, Terri R.; Wiswall, Wendy J. – Management Communication Quarterly, 1991
Examines how masculine and feminine speech patterns affect the acceptance by superiors of decisions made by male and female subordinates. Indicates that proposals of subordinates with masculine speech patterns are more likely to be accepted by male listeners, whereas female listeners are not influenced by the speech patterns. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employer Employee Relationship, Females, Interpersonal Communication
Octigan, Mary Withrow – 1976
This study explores male/female patterns of dominance in dyadic speech communication in order to determine the influence of speaker's sex, speaker's commitment to the women's movement, and observer feedback on those patterns. College students (30 males and 30 females) responded to an "attitudes-toward-women" questionnaire and were classified as…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Feedback, Feminism
Ray, George B. – 1980
A study sought to determine what relationships existed between speech rate, speech pitch variation, speech loudness, and the personality assessments made by listeners. The subjects, 214 undergraduate speech communication students, listened to one of eight tape recordings made by a male speaker to represent all the combinations of the three…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
Pellegrini, A. D. – 1980
The intent of this study was to determine the extent to which preschool children's speech to self, their private speech, was differentiated from their social speech. Ten randomly chosen preschool children, six boys and four girls with a median age of 56 months, were observed in conditions supportive of oral communication (free play), and in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
Angermeyer, Matthias C.; And Others – 1980
Sixty half-hour family discussions generated by the "revealed differences technique" were analyzed to determine the emotional intensity and quality (friendliness/attacking) of messages between individuals in families with schizophrenic and "normal" sons. Thirty families in each situation (schizophrenic/normal) were matched for comparison. Both…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis