This study presents Norwegian ECEC staff members' thinking on "quality of interaction." Open-ended interviews were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis based on the Caregiver Interaction Profile scales. Findings are that ECEC staff members include both basic "care" aspects of interaction and "educational"…

Based upon author's Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Psychologists and linguists often suggest that empathy or role-taking ability is important in the communication process because it enables a speaker to consider in advance the informational demands of his audience. Despite the vintage of the empathy-effective communication hypothesis, it has never been directly tested. In this study, empathy was…

Explores behavior of student in counseling, and establishes classification of 10 subroles for further study of the nature of counselee. (CJ)

Assessed the effects of two types of communicative cues on perceptions of dominance. Subjects viewed stimulus tapes of controlled conversations and rated each speaker. Results indicated that vocal participation contributed to perceptions of dominance more than open-ended or closed-ended questions. (Author/RC)

Demonstrates that the attentiveness construct can be accurately represented in terms of behavioral signals, sensitivities, and self-evaluations. Indicates that attentiveness is a function of posture, verbal behavior, and eye contact and demonstrates that attentiveness varies as a function of role status across differing contexts. (JMF)

The hypothesis that role expectations that are incongruent with actual role behavior place a strain on verbal communication within the interview has been upheld. (Author)

Discusses the role of rule in language as well as the role of the linguist in preserving and/or altering the rules. The article lists three terms and the distinctions among them emerging from Harris's viewpoint: law of nature, rule, and regularity. (14 references) (CK)

Study recorded the ongoing verbal and nonverbal behavior of 156 preschool children (M age=51.1 months) as they played, in dyads, during 78 cooperation episodes. The results are discussed in terms of the motivational and organizational role of both transient and enduring affective states during cooperation episodes. (Author/RWB)

This study examines the development of communication and social inference in terms of the child's immediate social environment, the child's role systems, and the standards of interpersonal relationships. Middle-class mothers and fathers of first, third, and fifth graders were asked what they say to their children in several common situations in…

Argument of this article is that the instrumental approach to communication, or as authors label it, the rhetorical approach, best promises to facilitate human understanding and to effect social cohesion. (Editor/MB)

This research attempts to assess the effectiveness of primary school children from first-versus second-language schools in oral communication and to investigate the relationship between role-taking skills and communicational effectiveness by comparing the results of this research with those of an earlier one. (Author/RK)

Investigation of extent of commitment to client through evolution of counselor verbal actions indicates that high commitment and expectancy are crucial to the helping relationship. (CJ)