Registers concern about policies in academic administration that make professional life unproductive and frustrating for conscientious teachers, particularly the publish or perish pressure. (PD)

Overview of issues concerning computer-monitored data for research in communication and information science includes a description of systems and kinds of data possible; uses of data; advantages of and problems with computer-monitored data and collection; prior research using computer-monitored data; prospects for future research. A 111-item…

Tested the use of interviews, specifically the Focus Group Interview technique, to generate information about how high communication apprehensives (CAs) characterize their attitudes, experiences, and behaviors. Found that much of what high CAs said about themselves corresponds with what has been conceptualized and tested quantitatively about…

A group of young children (17 to 24 months), although capable of semantically equivalent verbal behavior, tended to persist with gestures when experiencing communicative failure. The children may not have realized a verbal behavior can replace or enhance gestural communication. (MSE)

In order to specify the combinations of content and form dimensions in which explicit verbal feedback becomes most effective in enhancing communication skills, a training experiment was designed in which both dimensions were factorially manipulated. Forty children between the ages of 5 and 10 participated. (Author/RH)

Thirty-six children between 4.4 and 5.4 years of age were assessed for understanding about the role of message ambiguity as a cause of communication failure and for level of performance in verbal referential communication tasks. Results show that training sessions illustrating when and why listeners understood or failed to understand were…

Assessed ecological validity of previous research that suggested an interviewer's nonverbal behaviors predominate over verbal content behaviors in prediction of interviewer effectiveness ratings. Assessed naturally occuring (rather than manipulated) interviewer behaviors. Results indicated nonverbal interviewer behaviors do not predominate over…

In order to determine (1) the major speech characteristics of mothers and fathers and (2) the relationship between parental input and child language development, a longitudinal analysis of parents' input language was conducted during the period in which four first-born children progressed from no words to the stable use of one-word utterances in…

Found that while beginning managers enrolled in a graduate management course overwhelmingly endorsed a nondirective/permissive style of manager-employee communication, they expected compliance from employees only when managers used a directive/autocratic style of communication. Discusses implications for management training and relationship with…

Reviews the body of literature on typologies of strategies. Then investigates the effects of situation variables on the likelihood of use of four types of compliance-gaining strategies: justification, exchange, manipulation, and personal rejection. Concludes that both intimacy and relational consequences proved to be significant determinants of…

Manipulated speaker sex and "sick" jokes/no-jokes in printed speeches are evaluated by college students. "Sick" jokes generally resulted in negative evaluations of both speech and speaker; "sick" jokes may be enjoyed in certain social situations but should probably be left out of formal speeches. (PD)

Data indicate that speakers with relatively high ethos (college professors) can raise their ratings on wittiness/funniness and sense of humor--without damaging their credibility--by making fun of their professional fields, provided they do not at the same time humorously disparage the values of the audience. (PD)

Reviews research which examines the relationship of loneliness with communication variables. Reports on a study which found that (1) communication apprehension was not significantly related to loneliness and (2) canonical correlation reveals a significant relationship between the communicative competence dimension, social experience, and the lack…

Reports a preliminary study of the four-level theory of role-taking. Investigates the hypothesis that the use of each role-taking level in describing the self correlates with the use of the same role-taking level in describing other persons. Discusses implications for interpersonal communication research. (PD)

Found that college students who were high self-monitors reported varying their self-disclosures more than low self-monitors. Finding is consistent with theory and research which indicate that high self-monitors perceive that they adapt to situations by varying their communication while low self-monitors do not. (PD)