Communication Journal Articles Copyright (c) 2013 Bryant University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou Recent documents in Communication Journal Articles en-us Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:49:02 PDT 3600 Decision-making Procedure and Decision Quality http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/65 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/65 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:22:36 PDT Brant R. Burleson et al. Cognitive and Motivational Influences on Spontaneous Comforting Behavior http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/64 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/64 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:22:34 PDT Wendy Samter et al. Individual Differences in the Perception of Comforting Messages http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/63 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/63 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:57:20 PDT Brant R. Burleson et al. Consistencies in Theoretical and Naive Evaluations of Comforting Messages http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/62 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/62 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:48:44 PDT Assesses the extent to which naive actors' perceptions of comforting strategy correspond with the formal analysis of comforting strategy sophistication embedded in the constructivist hierarchical coding scheme. Concerns that motivate interest in how actors evaluate different comforting strategies; Methodological implications associated with the study; Background on the constructivist hierarchical coding systems.

]]> Brant R. Burleson et al. Comforting Conversations: The Effects of Strategy Type on Evaluations of Messages and Message Producers http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/61 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/61 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:39:18 PDT The first study indicates that (1) both messages and message sources differed significantly as a function of the sophistication of the strategies employed by the message source and (2) female sources were more positively evaluated than male sources. The second study reveals that evaluations of comforting messages varied as a direct, linear function of message sophistication.

]]> Wendy Samter et al. More Evidence That Cognitive Complexity Is Not Loquacity: A Reply to Beatty and Payne http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/60 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/60 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:41:48 PDT Brant R. Burleson et al. Behavioral Complexity Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Message Complexity on Impressions of the Source of Comforting Messages http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/59 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/59 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:33:25 PDT Recent theorizing suggests that exposure to sophisticated or behaviorally complex messages (i.e., messages that reflect a concern with multiple goals) may enhance the cognitive development of message recipients. Reasoning that persons attempt to accommodate their cognitive structuring of an environment to the level of complexity in that environment, it was hypothesized that persons exposed to behaviorally complex messages would form more differentiated impressions of the message source than would persons exposed to less complex messages.

]]> Wendy Samter et al. Evaluations of Communication Skills as Predictors of Peer Acceptance in a Group Living Situation http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/58 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/58 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:14:02 PDT Wendy Samter et al. Effects of Cognitive Complexity on the Percieved Importance of Communication Skills in Friends http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/57 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/57 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:00:54 PDT This study assessed individual differences in the value that college students placed on communication skills exhibited by same-sex peers. Participants (N = 410) rated items tapping eight different communication skills for their importance in same-sex relationships. The skills included ego support, conflict management, comforting, referential ability, conversational skill, regulative skill, narrative ability, and persuasive skill. Interpersonal cognitive complexity was assessed through Crockett's (1965) Role Category Questionnaire.

]]> Brant R. Burleson et al. Similarity in Communication Values as a Predictor of Friendship Choices: Studies of Friends and Best Friends http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/56 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/56 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:44:44 PDT A study examined the hypothesis that persons with similar communication values are more likely to become friends than persons with dissimilar communication values. The results and implications related to this type of friendship formation are discussed.

]]> Brant R. Burleson et al. Are There Gender Differences In The Relationship Between Academic Performance and Social Behavior? http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/55 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/55 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:19:06 PDT A growing body of research suggests that peer-related communication skills and experiences may facilitate academic achievement, especially in the college environment. However, there is substantial evidence that men and women differ in peer-related interaction skills and patterns, suggesting that there may be gender differences in the relationship between academic performance and interaction with peers.

]]> Brant R. Burleson et al. Communicative Characteristics of the Lonely Person's Friendship Circle http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/54 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/54 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:04:40 PDT The project described in this article examined several qualitative features of the friendship circles of lonely college students. It was expected that because communication is the cornerstone of young adult friendship, individuals whose social companions lacked important communicative attributes would experience poor peer relationships and, therefore, greater loneliness than individuals whose social companions possessed relevant communicative attributes.

]]> Wendy Samter Similarity In The Communication Skills of Young Adults: Foundations of Attraction, Friendship, and Relationship Satisfaction http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/53 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/53 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:20:08 PDT The current paper reports a study assessing how similarities in levels of social-cognitive and communication skills affected friendship choices by young adults. Participants (208 college students) completed a battery of tasks providing assessments of one social-cognitive and five communication skills. Sociometric procedures were used to determine interpersonal attraction and friendship patterns.

]]> Brant R. Burleson et al. Men's and Women's Beliefs About Communication in Intimate Relationships: When Sex Differences Make A Difference - And When They Don't http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/52 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/52 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:12:28 PDT Brant R. Burleson et al. Ethnicity and Emotional Support in Same-Sex Friendship: A Comparison of Asian-American, African-Americans, and Euro-Americans http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/51 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/51 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:03:12 PDT Emotional support is a central feature around which white, middle-class adults organize their same-sex friendships. The purpose of this study was to examine whether emotional support is accorded the same significance in the friendships of Asian- and African-Americans. Participants included 199 students (60 Euro-American men and women, 80 Asian-American men and women, and 59 African-American men and women) attending either a state or private university in California.

]]> Wendy Samter et al. Friendly Fire: Topical Variations in Conflict Among Same and Cross-Sex Friends http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/50 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/50 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:34:24 PDT This investigation identified conflict events in young adult friendship. In addition, we examined whether different sources of conflict characterize same- and cross-sex friendship and how gender influences perceptions of conflict issues in these relationships.

]]> Wendy Samter et al. African American Women's Perception of Rebuttal Analogy: Judgements Concerning Politeness, Likeability and Ethics http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/49 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/49 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:25:30 PDT Recent theorizing and research suggest that communicators using rebuttal analogy are rated as less polite, less likable, less competent and less ethical than communicators using a nonanalogy form of the same argument. A significant limitation of this work, however, is that it focuses largely on European Americans to the exclusion of other important groups, such as African American women, that are exposed to rebuttal analogy in public discourse.

]]> Bryan B. Whaley et al. The Role of Facework in Younger and Older Adults' Evaluations of Social Support Messages http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/48 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/48 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:05:40 PDT Compares younger and older adults' evaluation of emotional and instrumental-support messages. Features of effective support messages; List of support messages used in the study; Similarities and differences in older and younger perception of support messages; Predictors of the perceived helpfulness and face sensitivity of a support message.

]]> Scott E. Caplan et al. The Role of Expectations in Effective Genetic Counseling http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/47 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/47 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:19:30 PDT The goals for this investigation were to assess individuals' expectations for social support from genetic counselors, and to explore how these expectations influence perceptions of genetic counselor effectiveness. Two studies were conducted to address these goals. Results from the first study show that individuals most frequently expect genetic counselors to provide options and support following the disclosure of distressing test results, while data from the second study demonstrate that expectations play a significant role in individuals' assessment of genetic counselor effectiveness. These findings shed light on what individuals expect from genetic counselors following the disclosure of medically positive test results and inform how these expectations influence the success of genetic counseling sessions.

]]> Lisa R. Jay et al. A College Admission Test Protocol to Mitigate the Effects of False Negative SAT Scores http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/46 http://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/comm_jou/46 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:37:35 PDT The purpose of this study was to search for an alternative to the SAT that displayed greater power to predict the college performance of students whose most recent SAT score was below 1000. Results show that five of the sub-scores yielded coefficents that were significant. These sub-scores were correlated with college grade point average higher than the SAT.

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