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Peer reviewedYerkovich, Sally – Journal of Communication, 1977
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Social Influences, Social Relations, Sociocultural Patterns
Peer reviewedWinick, Charles – Journal of Communication, 1976
Analyzes joke-telling trends from 1970-75 and emphasizes that such an analysis may yield a significant reflection of American life during this time period. (MH)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Humor, Interaction Process Analysis, Social Attitudes
Peer reviewedSteffen, John J.; Redden, Joan – Human Communication Research, 1977
Discusses a study designed to explore behavior changes in subjects' performances as a function of evaluative feedback and examines the relations between judgements of physical attractiveness and social competence. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedLandau, Rivka – Developmental Psychology, 1977
This study compared the smiling behavior of 76 infants during a regular day to their smiling during a brief elicitation by the mother and investigated the extent to which a mother is able to intentionally elicit smiling or vocalization. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis, Mothers
Cronen, Vernon E.; Pearce, W. Barnett – 1978
The theory of the coordinated management of meaning (CMM) describes the structural relationship between a conversation as it appears in a verbatim transcript and as it appears in the meaning-system of the participants. The five essential features of CMM theory are: a set of four propositions about the nature of communication and human behavior, a…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Patterns
Poole, Marshall Scott – 1978
A two-tiered model of group influences on individual choice behavior is developed and evidence relevant to the model is reviewed in this paper. The model consists of two parts: a model of individual choice, and models of group influence on components of the individual choice model. The model of individual choice is based on the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Decision Making, Group Dynamics, Individual Power
Rogers, L. Edna; And Others – 1979
The discussions of four family-related topics by 85 married couples were recorded and analyzed to test the validity of an expanded version of the relational communication coding system developed by L. Edna Rogers and Richard V. Farace. The expanded version of the system is based on the implicit intensity continuum that underlies the communication…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods
Download full textWiseman, Richard L.; Davison, Mark L. – 1979
A total of 79 college students participated in an investigation designed to clarify the function of conversational closings. Multidimensional scaling was used to derive a three-dimensional representation of the semantic meaning conveyed by 20 frequently used conversational closings. Regression analyses of the scaling solution suggested that the…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Content Analysis, Educational Research, Higher Education
Glaser, Susan R. – 1979
A conversational skills training program for persons who admitted discomfort in most interpersonal situations and who found it difficult to initiate and maintain conversation was designed to teach these conversational behaviors: asking questions, expressing disagreement and agreement, paraphrasing, initiating conversations, giving compliments, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Apprehension, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Programs
Adelman, Clem, Comp. – 1978
The papers in this collection were initially presented in two successive conferences that dealt with the collection, use, and reporting of spoken language for educational research. The ten papers deal with the method and procedures used in studying talk in a school situation; an analysis of the interaction between the researcher and a group of…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Research, Interaction Process Analysis
Sigman, Stuart J. – 1979
A five-month ethnographic study of conversations in a Philadelphia nursing home revealed some of the rules governing situationally appropriate conversational behavior. The social communicational perspective of the study differed from both psychological and discourse analysis approaches. Analysis of the data indicated that sustained…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Ethnography
von Raffler-Engel, Walburga; And Others – 1978
A pilot experiment aimed at discovering sex-specific language patterns as exhibited by males and females in conversation with same-sex and other-sex partners falsified the hypothesis frequently stated in the literature that males hold the dominant role in mixed-sex verbal interaction, at least in regard to college students. Twelve dyadic…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Human Relations
