Investigated the effect of a verbal response model of assertiveness with nonassertive college female nursing students. The model is composed of three verbal components presented in a systematic training program. Subjects (N=25) were randomly assigned to the assertive training group, the attention control group, and the no-treatment control group.…

The immediacy of 24 conceptually complex and 24 conceptually simple introductory psychology students' self-disclosures was assessed as a function of (a) the level of immediacy of a confederate's self-disclosures and (b) the similarity of the subject's and confederate's levels of conceptual complexity. (Author)

Undergraduates (N = 96), divided into 12 groups, first engaged in self-disclosure and consensus exercises and then were required to exchange personal feedback. Feedback was positive or negative in nature and delivered publicly or anonymously. Positive feedback was rated as more credible and produced greater cohesiveness. (Author)

Two communication training programs--the Communication Skills Workshop (CSW) and the Couples Communication Program (CCP)--and a wait-list control group were compared on measures of communication effectiveness, problem solving and relationship satisfaction. Subjects were 54 volunteer couples randomly assigned to conditions. Highly distressed…

The effects of systematically varied verbal and nonverbal components of teachers' evaluative behavior upon children's perceptions and attitudes were studied within an experimental classroom. Subjects were 126 sixth-grade students. (Author)