Finds that power exerted a substantial impact on the messages persons used during a negotiation game; message behavior moderated the effect of power on outcomes, so that negotiators were differentially effective in any given power condition depending upon the messages employed; and participants' message behavior was often maximizing outcomes. (SR)

Finds that adolescent girls and their friends exhibited a fast-paced conversation style that included frequent interruptions, simultaneous speech, and the use of overlaps between turns; while mothers exhibited a style characterized by slower pacing, pausing, infrequent interruptions, and simultaneous speech. Finds that daughters ended up…

Examines the relationship between college student perceptions of teacher immediacy and student ratings of instruction. Notes that 266 students responded to instruments designed to measure the frequency of teachers' verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors. Finds positive correlation between immediacy and student ratings of instruction. Discusses…

Examines whether dependency and self-criticism (personality types linked with depression) are related to social acuity. Uses 90 university students who completed 2 measures of social acuity. Finds that self-critical persons were significantly less accurate on both tasks, even when controlling for depressive symptomatology. Supports previous…

Investigates individual, relational, and organizational factors that influence how and from whom new hires seek information when they experience uncertainty in the workplace. Suggests that new hires' information-seeking strategy choices are determined by perceived social costs of seeking information, which are inversely related to overt…

Develops and uses a mediation model to investigate the links between culture, individual values (independent and interdependent construals of self), and perceptions of conversational constraints. Finds culture-level individualism and collectivism systematically related to individual-level cultural orientations (independent and interdependent…

Tests the relative effects of several antecedents to users' behavioral coping responses to quality programs in four organizations. Finds that users' attitudes, concerns for performance, normative influence, uncertainty, and their perceptions of the context of change affect each of three dimensions of their behavioral coping responses. (SR)

Examines the relationship between negotiation strategies and the quality of negotiated outcomes among undergraduate students. Finds that: impasse negotiations showed the frequent use of contention and sequences that paired similar (either cooperative or competitive) strategies; settlement was associated with decreased contention and sequences that…

Discusses four themes that emerged from grandparents' written accounts of conversations with their college-aged grandchildren. Argues that expressions of affiliation, pride, exchange (of advice and information), and feeling distance from their grandchildren are fundamental elements of the relationship from the grandparents' perspectives. (SR)

Examines self-report data from organizational members of a federal government health information and education network piloting innovative intervention strategies to disseminate cancer information to the public. Suggests the existence of a new innovation role: the Devil's advocate. Explores the nature of resisting innovation, existing innovation…

Considers how the Internet offers new opportunities for both audience research and content analyses, but notes that old problems researchers have encountered over the years remain. Notes that mass communication research will be better off or worse off depending on the skill of researchers in using the Internet. (SC)

Suggests that communication faculty should work toward structural realignments in universities to encourage cross-disciplinary work; design majors around competencies, not departments; encourage interdepartmental "communication dialogues"; read a broad range of literature and work toward expertise in a topic, not just a discipline; attend more…

Notes many survey respondents are asked to report on frequency of behaviors during a specified reference period. Tests if a given piece of contextual information is more influential when it is unique to the question asked rather than shared by several questions. Finds influence of reference period on question interpretation is only observed when…

Draws on a study of 106 personal homepages in order to present a theoretical model of how citizens' potentials as Web publishers are being compromised by the leadership of institutional discourses. Proposes an analogous process of synthetic institutionalization, in which personal homepage publishers affect institutional poses by adapting Norman…

Examines the discursive construction of identity and power in a Japanese online discourse community by focusing on an email list for Japanese professionals in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Argues that online discourse communities do not diminish hierarchical social relations found in offline discourses but…