Students have social and personal needs to fulfill and communicate these needs in different ways. This annotated bibliographic review examined communication studies to provide educators of diverse classrooms with ideas to build an environment that contributes to student well-being. Participants in the studies ranged in age, ability, and cultural…

Examines specific nonverbal behaviors that express conversational involvement (the degree to which participants in a communicative exchange are cognitively and behaviorally engaged in the topic, relationship, and/or situation) along five dimensions: immediacy, expressiveness, interaction management, altercentrism, and social anxiety. Finds…

Tests whether individuals with different attachment styles vary in the degree to which they display intimacy and nonverbal involvement to their romantic partners. Provides preliminary behavioral validation of K. Bartholomew's four-category model of attachment. Interprets findings in light of the dimensions underlying attachment styles and the…

States that interpersonal deception theory frames deception as a communication activity within interactive contexts. Describes an experiment testing several suspicion-related hypotheses pairing participants for interviews during which interviewees lied or told the truth, and interviewers were induced to be more or less suspicious. Finds that when…

Tests the arousal-valence model of nonverbal communication by examining the effect of selected immediate nonverbal communication cues exhibited by bank tellers on the satisfaction of their clients in banking transactions. Finds that immediacy in brief impersonal transactions is not a significant predictor of satisfaction. (SR)

Explores the combined influence of nonverbal immediacy and verbal person centeredness in the emotional support process. Tests three complementary models in an experiment with participants who disclosed an emotionally upsetting event to a confederate trained to display different levels of nonverbal immediacy and person centeredness. Suggests that…

Links decoding ability to interpersonal cognitive complexity and to person-centered verbal adaptiveness. Finds females more likely than males to be higher in interpersonal cognitive complexity and person-centered verbal ability, and that the influence of sex washes out the relationship of nonverbal decoding ability and cognitive complexity with…

Finds that confederates' intentions to show increased or decreased liking toward their partners positively correlated with the partners' liking for the confederate, but that less than one-quarter of the confederates could demonstrate an accurate conscious awareness of the behaviors they used and how they used them. (SR)

Assess the expectedness, interpretations, and evaluations of touch and its influence on such communication outcomes as communicator attractiveness and credibility. Finds that brief touches among strangers may have positive consequences, especially when initiated by high-valence communicators, for whom they may qualify as positive violations. (SR)

Investigates bias in interaction processes by looking at how it coexists with beliefs about intentionality. Finds that, within the context of behavioral mirroring, both observational stance and beliefs about intent influence the judgments people made about a person's character and behavior, as well as the relational messages the person sent to…

Finds that naive human lie detectors follow content-related heuristics (like infrequency of reported events or falsifiability) but can flexibly change their strategy as they learn about authentic nonverbal cues that discriminate lies from truthful communications. (SR)

Finds that subjects primarily used a communicator's verbal plausibility, nervousness, and nonverbal expectancies violation to guide veracity judgments. Shows that accuracy was higher for participants judging truthful communicators than for subjects judging deceptive communicators. Discusses a truth bias and the use of global heuristics as possible…

Examines relative effects of cognitive expectation and actual communication behavior of undergraduate students on communication outcomes. Manipulates expectations (pleasant versus unpleasant communication) and communication (high or low involvement). Examines individual and combined influence on affective outcomes, evaluations, and interaction…

Hypothesizes that participation in the form of dialogic communication confers a net advantage to senders over receivers such that it increases senders' deception success--it reduces receivers' detection of deceit. Concludes that the results support the interactivity principle and interpersonal deception theory, from which the principle emanated.…

Examines same-sex and opposite-sex touching as well as controlling touch. Concludes that females initiate more touching, both opposite- and same-sex, and that they specifically initiate more control touching. (MS)