Findings show that instructions eliciting consultant's involvement in the problem when compared with instructions creating involvement with the client, results in a higher level of verbal activity by the consultant, more frequent mutual interruptions, and more response incongruence in conversation. (Author)

The preparation procedure increased correct expectations about treatment for both the children and the parents. Prepared families had fewer cancelled and failed appointments. The preparation procedure did not significantly affect children's verbalizations in their therapy sessions or children's satisfaction with treatment. (Author/BEF)

Discusses the use of specific styles of strategic interaction among professional poker players in their attempts to conceal, distort, or discover useful information about their opponents in order to maximize some gain. (JMF)

Examines the legitimacy of the use of personality traits as antecedent variables in the explanation of communicative behaviors. Focuses on the conceptual and empirical justification for one assumption of the trait approach: cross-situational consistency. This assumption was not supported for the traits of reticence or predisposition toward verbal…

The purposes of the study involving four severely handicapped students (11 to 16 years old) were to examine whether the acquisition of instruction- following behavior is facilitated by the presentation of manual signs with verbal instructions and whether manual and verbal expressive abilities are acquired as an indirect result of receptive…

Initial interviews between lawyers in a legal-services-for-the-poor program and their clients were observed in order to discover relative degrees of power and to describe the process of exercising control in professional-client relations. (Author)

Determines the relationship of student teachers' commitment to values, attitudes, and behaviors characteristically fostered by bureaucratic organizations and their verbal classroom behavior while teaching. Findings reveal no difference in verbal classroom behavior of student teachers high and low in bureaucratic orientation, and no difference in…

Reports on a survey by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) of the courses offered and required in the area of business communication. The emphasis of most courses is on written communication. (JMF)

Presents a method that enables students to become aware of nonverbal communication and to incorporate it into their descriptive writing. (TJ)

A covert self-instructional program was used to reduce the frequency of a hospitalized chronic schizophrenic's inappropriate verbalizations. A marked reduction in the frequency of the target behavior accompanied the treatment intervention, and improved verbal behavior was directly responsible for the decision to discharge the subject from the…

Examines the effect of sex of subject and acquaintance on the behavior of 24 pairs of same-sex subjects at a particular transition point, the closure of a meeting. Results are discussed in relation to social skills and to differential expectations of future interaction. (Editor/RK)

Discusses a study designed to determine the effects of visual environmental esthetics on interpersonal attraction and concludes that visual esthetics influence participants' perspectives of their partners in live interpersonal communication settings. (MH)

The effects of counselor verbal behavior (reflections, probes, and restatements) and counselor nonverbal behavior (presence or absence of nodding and smiling) upon 48 subjects was examined. Probes resulted in more discussion of feelings than did either reflections or restatements. Nonverbal behavior did not effect discussion of feelings. (Author)

Study indicates that: "Verbal instruction could be employed to teach manual performance skills not only in science but in other subject areas and in industry as well." (Author)

Presents a brief history of the development of written language as a means of communication and discusses the characteristics of reading and how this latter activity contributed to the growth of subjectivity. (36 references) (CK)