Analyzes Japanese magazine advertising text from an intracultural perspective based on gender. Uses content analysis to examine advertising text of eight gender-specific magazines. Reveals significant difference in the variability of message perception depending on target gender. Suggests the importance of recognizing intracultural variability,…

Examines the effects of teachers' language on initial impressions and uncertainty reduction in the university classroom. States that language was operationalized using powerful and powerless forms. Finds that teachers using powerful language forms were rated consistently higher than those who used powerless forms, and that differences were also…

Finds that East Asian students (enculturated in Confucianist norms emphasizing social relationships) had higher levels of sensitivity and empathy than North American students (enculturated in individualistic cultural norms), and that empathy toward friends was significantly higher than empathy toward generalized others for both groups of students.…

Defines dialogue and traces some of the forces that underlie thinking and acting in social settings where collective action is sought. Discusses stages and core elements in the dialog process. Describes results of the Dialog Project at MIT in terms of research sites, theory, facilitator development, educational material, an international…

Addresses four issues on depression and the response of others, studying undergraduates and their same-gender roommates, observed and rated on videotape. Indicates that depressed targets were rejected by their roommates, whereas anhedonic subjects were rejected by observers; rejection effects were specific to depression and anhedonia; and…

Examines the relationship between teaching and research. Considers whether an emphasis on one or the other better serves the interests of communications departments. Adumbrates arguments suggesting that research undermines teaching and those suggesting the converse. Shares the results of a meta-analysis of existing research on the topic. Finds a…

Explores the impact of PRForum, an Internet newsgroup, on the public relations community by examining the nature, function, and content of online exchanges. Finds that PRForum is used for three functions: to facilitate the exchange of information; to create a forum for debate on issues; and to cultivate a sense of self-validation on personal and…

Investigates how communication predispositions promote or detract from individual students' motivation relative to their collaborative learning (CL) groups. Finds distinctive patterns of emergent motivation for students in each of the four optimal challenge categories for each of the CL learning modalities. Discusses instructional implications.…

Shows that more women than men reported being targets of peer sexual harassment. Notes that women view certain behaviors as harassing and as more severe than men. Finds that classmates were a primary category of harassers for women and a secondary category for men. Documents peer sexual harassment in college classrooms and discusses implications…

Finds strong support for the appraisal-emotion link, although the effect of message form on appraisals was weaker and more complex than expected. Implies that only a subset of the appraisals are relevant to influence attempts in close relationships, and finds that dominance and explicitness showed unique and nonparallel effects on appraisals. (SR)

Finds that coworker conversations regarding differential treatment serve two primary functions: they create perceptions of differential treatment, and they reinforce preexisting perceptions of differential treatment. Shows that members tend to emphasize the subordinate's role in the incident over the supervisor's and rely heavily on equity…

Discusses uninhibited behavior in computer-mediated communication (CMC), or flaming, and describes a study that examined the social context in which flaming occurs by analyzing messages posted during one week to four Usenet social newsgroups that represented different national and cultural groups. Results confirm that social context is the primary…

Explores cultural variability, especially uncertainty avoidance and power distance, and examines how it affects public response to crisis. Presents an analysis of the national cultures of six European countries that showed that publics who live in nations that are high in uncertainty avoidance and power distance tend to react more strongly, and…

Examines male and female students' participation in class discussions (measured in word counts). Finds that students participated more frequently in face-to-face discussions after they participated in a Daedalus Interchange sessions, but socially constructed variables such as gender lead some students to participate less frequently in traditional…

Argues that, because of the chaotic nature of the Web and the competing searching software, no single search tool will suffice. Lists and discusses meta search engines; communication meta-sites and subject directories, all indexed by humans; teaching resources for communication courses that utilize the unique features of the Web; and web sites…