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Interactive competence in a multilingual English language school.
(1999)
This study examined the language use in a multilingual English as a second language school located in the Midwest. The primary objective of this study was to uncover and display the ways in which members of this setting ...
Conflict management in voluntaries :
(1984)
The purpose of this study was to determine whether one's own position, the position of the person with whom one is in conflict, or the content of the conflict situation significantly affects people's choice of conflict ...
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. ...
The effect of message structure on inference making in recall.
(1982)
This study attempted to determine the effect of manipulating the structure of a story on the production of inferences in recall. One independent variable, story structure, was manipulated four times. Each manipulation was ...
Sign-sentence theory: A method of encoding and decoding nonverbal communication.
(1997)
Sign-sentence theory is developed as a translating and decoding method for nonverbal communication. The theory incorporates those of White (1982) and Carroll (1986), and draws support from Vygotsky (1934/1962). White's ...
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, ...
Examining the Use of Alternative Restoration Scripts on the Psychological Reactance Process
(2014-05)
This study (N = 396) utilized a 3 (restoration: prescript vs. restoration postscript vs. control) × 2 (language: forceful vs. non-forceful) × 2 (topic: exercise vs. nutrition) mixed-model design to examine the effects of ...
An adjustment process and communication dilemma of people with disabilities in Japan.
(2002)
Throughout their lives, people make various kinds of adjustments. Most people are capable of making adjustments in order to survive challenging experiences. This fact is especially true for newly disabled individuals whose ...
Critical thinking: Implications for argumentativeness, verbal aggression and organizational leadership.
(2000)
This study was conducted to determine the relationships among critical thinking, the composite of critical thinking disposition and skill; argumentativeness, the tendency to approach or avoid controversial communication; ...