摘要:

The literature that has characterized the field of group studies has been controversial and confusing with regard to the effect of communicative and noncommunicative variables on group decision making. The research reported here seeks further understanding of the communication‐performance relationship. It is postulated that two classes of variables (homogeneity and task) moderate the relationship between group communication and group performance. This is because the variables contribute to the overall ambiguity found in the decision‐making situation. The ambiguity model is advanced in an effort to reconcile the contradictory findings, where they exist, and to propose new hypotheses regarding the communication‐group performance relatio

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00391.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This experiment investigated the conditions under which a member with information critical for making the best group decision will positively influence the group's final choice. The impact of two factors on group decision quality, information exchange, and perceptions of influence was examined: (a) status differences among members (equal‐status vs. mixed‐status groups) and (b) communication media (face‐to‐face vs. computer‐mediated communication). Three‐person groups were composed such that the critical information required to make the best decision was given only to the low‐status member in the mixed‐status groups and randomly assigned to one member in the equal‐status groups. The results indicated that the mixed‐status groups made poorer decisions and made fewer references to critical information than equal‐status groups, regardless of the communication medium. Computer‐mediated communication suppressed information exchange and the perceived influence of group members, suggesting that the relation between status and communication media is more complex than pr

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00392.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This research was conducted by combining the theoretical insights of communication accommodation theory and the communicative predicament model (CPM) of aging with methodological procedures drawn from the study of interethnic communication. Accordingly, young adult respondents were asked to describe two recent conversations with an older person, one satisfying and the other dissatisfying. Results indicated that older communicators in dissatisfying conversations were characterized as being underaccommodative and negatively expressive and as stereotyping young people. In response, young people frequently characterized themselves as reluctant accommodators. In addition, dissatisfying conversations were judged as more “intergroup” than those that were satisfying. Suggested improvements for dissatisfying conversations often were placed primarily on the shoulders of the older counterparts. In contrast, in satisfying conversations, older interactants were construed as supportive, telling interesting stories, astereotypical of older people, and positively expressive. However, these same encounters often were characterized by mixed positive and negative emotions, and few suggested improvements were proffered. The data are interpreted theoretically in relation to accommodation theory and the CPM as suggesting that both satisfying and dissatisfying intergenerational conversations sustain ageist ideolog

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00393.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This study investigated the relationship between the Family Communication Patterns (FCP) Inventory and parent‐child discourse, the effect of FCP scores on child compliance, and the effect of parent discourse strategies on child compliance. Parents and children did not appear to agree about the norms in their family and appeared to be using different instances of discourse to draw conclusions about their family. For parents, control orientation was related to controlling verbal strategies; for children, control was related to global negative affect. Communication orientation was related to information sharing for parents but to fewer parental commands for children. In addition, greater control orientation resulted in less compliance. Parent discourse strategies also were related to child compliance. Younger children were more compliant when parents used directive language coupled with positive affect, but older children were less compliant in response to this verbal strateg

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00394.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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The chief hypothesis of this study was that errors in memory (specifically source confusions) contribute to the link between television viewing and social reality judgments. Fiction‐to‐news confusions (fictional programming remembered as news) were hypothesized to positively predict TV‐biased judgments of reality. News‐to‐fiction confusions (news remembered as fiction) were hypothesized to negatively predict such judgments. The results of an experiment in which subjects watched television programming containing both news and fiction indicated that these hypotheses were supported. Levels of confusion interacted with daily television viewing and with the level of certainty attached to the confusions. A manipulation of the visual similarity of the news and fiction content affected subjects'tendency to make source c

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00395.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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In a recent issue of Human Communication Research, Thomas and Levine (1994) explored the “listening” construct, examining listening from both a cognitive and behavioral point of view. In so doing, they made several inaccurate statements about my own research and positions that I have taken concerning listening. Linear models of memory (first short‐term memory, then intermediate storage, then long‐term memory) do not describe listening. What I have written in the past is that, like memory, listening has short‐term and long‐term elements, that listening research ought to examine short‐term processing more carefully than before, and that any general definition of listening ought to include all elements, including long‐term elements. Additional misstatements appear concerning the role of memory in the assessment of listening. In addition to these misstatements, they ignored some extremely important constructs in listening, principally that of listener involvement. In addition, the model that they present as a causal explanation for listening behaviors has several serious flaws. Nonetheless, in focusing on some nonverbal indicators of listening, they have made a real contribution to the understanding of listening as a comm

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00396.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00397.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1996.tb00398.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY