Focuses on the home office and video teleconferencing as the basis for developing a social psychological perspective on the use of telecommunications as a travel substitute. (MH)

Purpose of this study was to determine the effect of therapists' approach-avoidance responses on the elicitation of mentally retarded client dependent and hostile statements. Results indicated clients did not respond differentially to therapist approach-avoidance behavior in the early counseling session but did respond differentially in the late…

Speech communicators need to return to applied research, developing theoretical statements about how groups might work better and testing the validity of those statements. Among the tasks that group communication researchers might take up are determining the range of applicability of generalizations concerning different kinds of groups, studying…

This study explored whether an interaction analysis of ongoing communication can be useful in describing the process of self-disclosure. Eight women were assigned to dyads: two acquaintance dyads (subjects were acquainted through a small class in communication and had known each other for two months), and two friendship dyads (subjects had been…

Communication is not only cross-cultural but interdisciplinary--in fact, even supradisciplinary. The problem of effective communication lies in coordinating various cognitive structures and in overcoming the lack of knowledge about an individual's perceptual mechanization. In this volume, some twenty-five contributors and discussants from five…

Investigates the effects of communication apprehension on listeners by focusing on the extent to which the apprehension of the sender influences his/her communication effectiveness as perceived by the receiver. (MH)

Examines various measures such as intensity, frequency and reciprocity of hits used in a game fight between spouses and attempts to relate such actions to the amount of discord reported in the represented marriages. (MH)

Discusses an experiment designed to demonstrate intra-audience effects in a naturalistic field setting and explains results indicating the impact of feedback in such a situation. (MH)

This study examined how four adults with aphasia collaborated with routine communication partners. Overall, these pairs completed the referencing task trials with accuracy and displayed referencing processes that conformed to the collaborative referencing model of communication. However, the pairs also used diverse verbal and nonverbal resources,…

A study of 184 college-age premarital couples on their communications interaction resulted in a revised 40-item scale differentiating between good and poor communication. Utilizing this premarital communication inventory, a second study of 265 couples contemplating marriage was undertaken to establish mean scores. (Author)

The study examined the dyadic relationship between two nonverbal, severely handicapped children (5 and 6 years old) and their mothers. Ss were videotaped in a classroom at an early intervention program, and approximately 110 maternal verbalizations were transcribed. Among findings were that the dyads used little eye contact while communicating;…

A one-week period of talk-show broadcasts from a Salt Lake City radio station was recorded and transcribed, in order to characterize the patterns of interaction which emerged from the talk between the six radio hosts and their callers. The coding system used focused on content and relationship aspects of communication. Results indicated that when…

Three parameters of self-disclosure (intimacy, amount, and frequency) were examined during four 60-minute sessions of group interaction among 16 participants in a smoking-cessation seminar. Analyses focused upon the effects of successive sessions upon the measures of self-disclosure. Significant differences were found for intimacy and frequency of…