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This paper repeats and confirms the results of Kill worth and Bernard (1976), concerning informants'ability to report their communication accurately. A variety of self‐monitoring, or nearly self‐monitoring, networks are used for this study. The conclusion again appears that people do not know, with any accuracy, those with whom they communicate.The expanded experimental design permits a variety of other, related questions to be answered: recall of past communication is not significantly more accurate than prediction of future communication; no one set of data is more accurate than any other; the maintenance of personal logs of communication does not improve accuracy; informants do not know if they are accurate or not; there is no reason to choose either rankings or scalings as a data instrument save for convenience.It is suggested that future research should concentrate both on improving the accuracy of data‐gathering instruments and on lessening the reliance of data‐processing instruments on preci

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00591.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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The occurrence of body‐focused (self‐touching) and object‐focused (“free”) movements was investigated in a semi‐structured interview involving two communicative tasks—person‐oriented and non‐person‐oriented and two types of encoders (field‐dependent and field‐independent). Person‐oriented information was accompanied by more continuous body touching movements (p<.001) and nonrepresentational (speech primacy) movements (p<.01). Representational (motor primacy) movements were more prevalent during the communication of non‐person‐oriented information (p<.001). Overall, field‐dependent encoders produced more continuous body touching movements than field‐independents (p<.05). It is proposed that body‐focused movement is a reflection of the degree of uncertainty involved in generating information as a function of, among other factors, the type of information, the psychological differentiation of the encoder (field dependence) and the psychosocial uncertainty of the communicative setting. Object‐focused movements seem to occur in relation to the type of

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00592.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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Forty men were selected from a larger pool of 235 college students who had completed three questionnaires designed to measure social competence. Twenty high socially competent and 20 low socially competent college men were given either positive or negative feedback by a woman confederate in a five‐minute dyadic interaction. The confederate made either four all‐positive or all‐negative statements on the impression she was forming about the men during the interaction. Measures were taken of the amount of time the men spoke, the latency of their response to the confederate's statements, and the number of topics and topic changes used during the interaction. Judgements were also made on the men's physical attractiveness and social skill. Finally, the men's verbal reactions to the confederate statements were content analyzed for direction (self, confederate, or other) and valence (positive, negative, or neutral). A 2‐by‐2‐by‐4 (competence by feedback by statements) ANOVA indicated that subjects differed over trials (statements) in their reaction latencies as a function of their competence level and feedback: low competent men took considerably longer to react to the confederate's negative feedback than did men in other conditions. There were no differences among groups on the amount of conversation time or number of topics and topic changes. High competent men were judged to be more attractive and more socially skilled than low competent men. Content analysis revealed that high competent and low competent men did not differ in their verbal responses when receiving positive feedback. During negative feedback, however, high competent men employed a wider range of responses than low competent men. These findings suggest that high and low socially competent men may differ in their responses to evaluative feedback such that high competent men are both quicker to respond and have a broader repertoire of response than do low

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00593.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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Previous research has demonstrated that opinion leaders consistently have more information on the topic of their leadership than do non‐opinion leaders. This study tested two theoretical explanations for this phenomenon: selectivity in exposure to information, and differential attention to information. The results provide support for both explanations. Opinion leaders were found to acquire more information than non‐opinion leaders under conditions of both voluntary and forced exposure to a mediated message. Both opinion leaders and non‐opinion leaders acquired more information under forced exposure than under voluntary exp

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00594.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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Anxiety and floor control perspectives on speech disturbances were related specifically to rhetorical interrogatives(you know, you see, andokay)and tested in an experimental condition. Communication apprehension and situational stress conditions produced conflicting theoretical predictions. Both anxiety and the perceived potential for interruption increased rhetorical interrogative ratios with no interaction effect; thus partial support was found for both theoretical positions. Neither theory emerged as a major contributor to explain variance in rhetorical interrogative ratios. Additional analysis indicated low/high communication apprehension differences in rhetorical interrogative ratios were primarily a function of the amount of talk.

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00595.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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A causal model relating aspects of interpersonal communication to anomia was tested with a sample of 58 students. While the overall model failed to fit the data, several specific hypotheses were supported. Both perceived similarity among members of close friendship networks and the level of interpersonal communication skills were negatively related to anomia. Residential mobility and anomia were positively associated. The level of communication network integration (connectedness) was not related to anomia, but the level of perceived communication effort was negatively associated with the level of network integration.

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00596.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper reports the results of the development of a self‐report measure of innovative‐ness. The utility of such an instrument in human communication research is discussed, together with issues relating to its reliability, validity, and association with social desirabil

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00597.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper reports the theoretical development and testing of a causal model of communication patterns of foreign immigrants in the process of acculturation. Communication patterns are conceptualized on two levels: cognitive and behavioral. The cognitive level is observed by the complexity of an immigrant's perception of the host society; the behavioral level by the immigrant's involvement in the host society through interpersonal and mass communication. Three causal factors are identified as major determinants of the immigrant's communication patterns: language competence, acculturation motivation, and accessibility to host communication channels. The theory consists of nine propositions which explain the relationship among the three causal factors, behavioral participation in host communication channels, and cognitive structure in perceiving the host society. The theory was tested and supported by a survey among 400 randomly selected Korean immigrants in the Chicago area.

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00598.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY

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Editors Note: With this issue we inaugurate a new section of HCR devoted to summaries of research and theory in specialised areas within the field of human communication. Papers in this section will he designed to bring research and theory in a given area together so that both specialists and nonspecialists can determine the “state of the art” in that area up to the time the paper is published. Scholars who wish to prepare papers for this section are requested to contact the editor and make their interests known. Generally, papers for this section will be commissioned. However, unsolicited papers will be given full considerat

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00599.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1977

数据来源: WILEY