Analyzes the nature of arousal, especially as it pertains to communication, and examines several nonverbal correlates of heightened arousal. Reviews several bodies of literature that implicitly or explicitly posit links between arousal and nonverbal behavior. (MM)

Investigates age differences in children's processes of simultaneously comprehending the auditory and visual content of a televised story. Reports a developmental increase in utilizing semantic content of both auditory and visual content to form a unified representation of narrated events. (MM)

Explores rhetorical strategies that construct institutional authority by analyzing discourse from a Senate subcommittee hearing. Argues that, although domination is basic to human organization, all structures are vulnerable to strategic alteration through effective participation. (MS)

Asks when and to what purpose society labels discourse ideological. Analyzes the cluster of terms used to denote moral choices and the process of moral suasion by placing them in a taxonomy of illocutionary acts and detailing their differences and similarities among judging, moralizing, and ideologizing. (MS)

Examines how an expression of anger affects the receiver's perceptions of anger in a close interpersonal relationship. Reports that findings contradicted conventional wisdom and research findings on assertive communication. (MM)

Examines attempts to solve interdepartmental problems innovatively in a postsecondary educational institution. Finds that cooperative (rather than competitive or independent) goals, and open and skillful communication are important elements in the successful communication of diverse perspectives, fostering innovation in an organization. (SR)

Studies the process through which four jazz musicians coordinate an inventive performance, without rehearsal or the use of sheet music. Identifies a basic strategy of shared information, communication, and attention for inventing and coordinating increasingly complex musical ideas. Draws implications for the study and management of organizational…

Replies to an article in "Human Communication Research" (v14, n4), "Item Desirability Effects in Compliance-Gaining Research: Seven Studies Documenting Artifacts" by Brant R. Burleson, Steven R. Wilson, Michael S. Waltman, Elizabeth M. Goering, Teresa K. Ely, and Bryan B. Whaley. (MS)

Maintains that communication consultants can help increase organizational effectiveness by therapeutically applying communication research, especially interpretive research, to organizational development. Describes a six-step model of therapeutic organizational communication consultation. Presents an organizational development study to illustrate…

Critiques Erving Goffman's research on the experience of radio frames by providing the results of a complete empirical phenomenological analysis of Goffman's report on data. (RAE)

Explores the consequences of differences in message design logic and goal structures for success in regulative communication situations. Finds that the level of message design logic was associated with every type of assessed effectiveness. Notes that differences in message goal structures had more selective effects on message evaluations. (SR)

Focuses on correlations between messages enacted during employment interviews and participants' subsequent perceptions about the interview's success. Indicates cybernetic tension in the interviewer-interviewee relationship. Shows a relationship between the ways this tension was balanced during the interview and its perceived success. (RAE)

Assesses Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT) assumptions about argument and argument influence. Reviews and critiques PAT, advancing five hypotheses to test its assumptions. Finds little correspondence between cognitive and discussion arguments in number, content, or persuasiveness. Discusses implications for PAT and for the role of communication in…

Examines the separate and combined impact of hedges, hesitations, and intensifiers on perceptions of authoritativeness, sociability, character, and similarity, and the extent to which messages containing one or more of these language variables differ from a "prototypically" powerless message in evaluative consequences. (MS)

Examines the causal relationship between foreign policy makers and media coverage of foreign policy issues in the context of U.S.-China relations from 1950 through 1984. Finds a significant relationship between U.S. policy toward China and media coverage of the issue during the study period. (MM)