Title

Consistencies in Theoretical and Naive Evaluations of Comforting Messages

Authors

Brant R. Burleson, Purdue University
Wendy Samter, Bryant UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published by Taylor & Francis in Communication Monographs, volume 52 issue 2, 1985. Bryant users may access this article here.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Source

Communication Monographs

Abstract

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.