Examines social perceivers' cognitive processing strategies when formulating deceptive attributions. Finds that deceptive attributions were based on the subject's relationship with the liar (friend or stranger) and the timing of the deceptive encounter (before or after truthful interactions). Notes that women formulated more severe deceptive…

Reports on dictionaries' power to misrepresent gender. Examines the definitions of three terms (clitoris, penis, and vagina) in eight leading high school dictionaries. Concludes that the absence of certain female gender-related terms represents another instance of institutionalized silence about the experience of women. (MM)

Analyzes the relationship of leadership style and communication behavior to employee commitment. Finds that leaders' stylistic qualities and socially skilled communication play a part in predicting how subordinates feel about their organization. (MS)

Provides data concerning one possible index of quality for institutions housing doctoral and master's programs in communication, as well as those who offer no postgraduate degree in the discipline. Suggests that not all scholarly activity in the speech communication discipline is to be found within postgraduate institutions. (MS)

Examines gender bias in Fortune 500 corporations' annual reports (reflected by more photographs of men than of women) and its effects on readers' perceptions of corporate climate. Concludes that the overrepresentation of males in the reports bears little relationship to perceptions of the corporation. (MM)

Investigates (in two phases) how coherence is cued between turns in conversations. Indicates that (1) turns were consistently paired well beyond chance, suggesting that explicit cues to connections between turns in conversations do exist; and (2) only lexical devices were found significantly more often in coherent than incoherent pairs. (NKA)

Examines a macro theoretical paradigm for management communication which clarifies relationships among the factors that influence persuasion. Explores the notion of strategic choice, and elaborates a strategic model for managers. (MM)

Indicates that males were more likely than females to use (1) violence against a noncompliant male persuasive target in a noninterpersonal relational context, and (2) direct coercion against persistently noncompliant and noninterpersonal persuasive targets in relational contexts with short-term consequences. (JD)

Identifies the purpose and scope of the 1986 "Communication Quarterly" Educational Supplement. Notes that 14 of the 17 articles included are devoted to an analysis of the "Great Teachers in the Speech Communication Classroom." Indicates that the last three articles treat aspects of the role of research in communication education. (JD)

Examines the influence of decision-making style on communication openness and satisfaction in Japanese organizations. Results of a survey indicated that Japanese employees preferred persuasive or consultative managerial decision-making styles and were more satisfied when their preferred decision-making style and the style of their manager were…

Examined the changes that may occur in self-monitoring behavior as individuals age. While individuals in four different age groups exhibited no significant differences in their self-monitoring behavior, individuals of varying ages did differ in the extent to which they reported they were able to modify their self-presentations. (SRT)

Discusses how the tradition of studying the word-of-mouth diffusion of news was established in 1945 and came to mature during the 1960s after the Kennedy assassination. Notes that the pace of this research slowed substantially in the 1970s and has all but stopped in recent years. Outlines six broad generalizations resulting from studies conducted…

Identifies the extent to which Nigerian public relations practitioners indicate satisfaction with their jobs and their perceptions of their ideal and actual professional and nonprofessional values. Indicates a positive correlation between organizational climate and job satisfaction. Reveals the need to improve job satisfaction and professionalism…

Indicates that the psychotic and normal populations showed definable differences in encoding strategies when presented with an adaption of the Pear Stories study. Supports theories claiming that faulty filtering mechanisms, vulnerability to distraction, and attentional deficits account for psychotic subjects' reactions. (JD)

Examines the motives of U.S. servicemen and Filipino women to intermarry. Concludes that U.S. servicemen both denigrate North American women and deny the cultural differences between themselves and Filipino women, while Filipino women are motivated by fate and economic security. (SRT)