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The ATM approach ("ask 'em, tell 'em, make 'em"): Compliance-seeking at the security checkpoints of a federal government site.
(2003)
Recent terrorist attacks in the United States have increased public concern with security screeners, yet research does not exist of communication at security checkpoints. The goals of this study are: (1) to initiate social ...
Exploring the relationship between United States governmental secrecy and democracy: Classification, cultures of secrecy, and the public sphere.
(2005)
For the past 60 years government secrecy in the form of officially classified documents has increased dramatically. According to the Information Security Oversight Office there were slightly fewer than 16 million classification ...
Successful socialization of an organizational culture: A critical analysis of the messages of student members of Southern Nazarene University.
(2002)
The purpose of this study is to examine students' messages, gathered through post-exit interviews, in order to compare how they talk about membership in the organizational culture of Southern Nazarene University with the ...
Toward a theoretical construct of the factors of deceptive communication.
(2000)
This study constitutes the fourth phase of a research program designed to explore the factors that influence the choices people make regarding deceptive communication. The research program leading up to this study produced ...
Narratives of hospice volunteers: Perspectives on death and dying.
(2004)
This study found that hospice volunteers' narratives function to make sense of death, warrant decisions for advanced preparation of their own death, illustrated an attempt to control their own death, transformed their ...
Understanding public school teachers' accounts of conflicts: An ethnographically based, ethnomethodological investigation.
(2001)
The data for this project are narrative descriptions or accounts of conflict episodes written by public school teachers. Two categories of research within the Language and Social Interaction tradition---the ethnography of ...
Communication skills training and development: What is the state of the art?
(2001)
This exploratory/descriptive study investigates communication skills training provided by companies between 1998 and 2000 and perceptions of human resource practitioners (managers and trainers) as to the importance of ...
Late night political comedy, candidate image, and inoculation: A unique test of inoculation theory.
(2004)
Additionally, this study assessed the viability of using inoculation treatments to protect against late night political ridicule (monologues and parodies). Previous research beginning in the late 1980s has revealed inoculation ...
Strategic communication during relationship dissolution: Disengagement resistance strategies.
(2001)
Research in relationship disengagement has focused almost exclusively on strategies used by the initiator of the breakup to the neglect of studying communication strategies employed by partners undesirous of the breakup. ...
Adolescents and communication regarding safer sex behavior.
(2004)
As adolescent pregnancy, childbearing and STD transmission has continued to be a pervasive problem in American society, it has become more and more critical to understand the nuances of teen sexual behavior. Policy makers, ...