Discusses coalition rhetoric as creating a sense of unity and facilitating cooperative action. The proposed phenomenological framework suggests that the search for rhetor intent and motive in cooperative communications may be approached through attention to "Coalition Form,""Dominant Phenomenological Themes," and "Representative Linguistic Cues."…

There were no significant differences in the way explicit and implicit counselors were perceived. Subjects preferred seeing counselors with whom they agreed on the values issue. Subjects hearing the explicit counselor value statement rated the counselor as more trustworthy when they agreed with her values. (Author)

The study demonstrated that: (1) interviewer trustworthiness can be manipulated in an analogue interview setting; and (2) interviewer trustworthiness is related to interpersonal influence in the interview setting. Findings follow a pattern of outcomes predicted by cognitive dissonance theory. (Author)

Points out that teachers frequently emit nonverbal messages that contradict their verbal messages. Isolates vocal cues (special characteristics of the communicator's voice) as the nonverbal behavior for study. Examines the interaction of vocal cues and verbal messages with respect to impact on teacher credibility. (PD)

Sixteen children from each of kindergarten, second, and fourth grades were presented pictorially and verbally with a series of stories depicting actors who varied in the amount of helping they promised to do and in whether or not they helped. Findings indicated developmental change in the bases of trust. (RH)

Explains the educational value of asking newsmakers to comment on the accuracy of the articles in which they were mentioned. Shows how this mechanism for feedback was used to improve student skills and instruction. (RL)

State-of-the-art examination of lying and deception. Includes motivation, awareness, and consequences; the occasion, time, and nature of deceptive messages; and their detection. (JMF)

Interviews in Lubbock, Texas questioned respondents of both ethnic groups on such modernity items as activity time orientation, integration with kin, trust, and occupational primacy. Mexican Americans were found to be more traditionalistic in orientation; 44 percent scored in the modern category compared to 92 percent of the Anglos. (DS)

Results of a study conducted with 721 fourth, sixth, and eighth graders were not supportive of the assumed role of children's perceived reality of television in determining the impact of exposure to television on children's social behavior. (GT)

A concept of levels in viewing the training function in organization is presented in four theorems: Costs, organization management, organization climate, and the effects of these on results. As credibility of the training function may depend on superficial appearances rather than substance, the effective training manager should be educator and…

Questionnaires consisting of vignettes in which 11-year-old girls reported being sexually abused were completed by 202 respondents. A majority of respondents viewed the reports of sexual abuse as truthful; however, they conveyed confusion regarding why some alleged victims retract their reports or do not resist their abusers. Gender differences in…

Examines the effects of office aesthetic quality on students' perceptions of teacher credibility and communicator style--97 students visited either a low or high aesthetic quality office or were assigned to a no-office exposure control group. Indicates that office aesthetic quality influenced participants' evaluations of teacher credibility and…

Examines the combined effects of on-air and online network news exposure, placing student and adult news consumers in broadcast news, online news, and telewebbing conditions. Indicates that perceptions of network news credibility are affected by channel used. Offers evidence for the existence of a synergy effect between on-air and online news. (PM)

Euro-American historians have not allowed Native American scholars to participate as intellectual equals in academic debates concerning Native history. A comparison of received histories of Sequoyah and the emergence of the Cherokee syllabary and Traveller Bird's 1971 "Tell Them They Lie" reveals that Traveller Bird's argument is at…

Discusses how to use the Sender-Receiver Communications model to illustrate for students the process of "targeting your audience." Includes an assignment in which students are asked to apply knowledge gained from the model. (MS)