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The foundation of a communicator style construct is presented in this paper. The construct is stipulated to include communication variables which reflect the “way one verbally and paraverbally interacts to signal how literal meaning should be taken, interpreted, filtered, or understood.” Nine independent variables (dominant, dramatic, animated, open, contentious, relaxed, friendly, attentive, and impression leaving) and one dependent variable (communicator image) operationally define the construct.Two independent samples, the first with 80 subjects and 102 items and the second with 1,086 subjects and 51 items, are analyzed in terms of (1) how the variables cluster, (2) what dimensionality is embedded in the structure of intercorrelations, and (3) which variables best predict communicator image. Potentially, the construct provides a context for other communication variables, relates to perceptual processes, and explains interpersonal conseque

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00600.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY

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The literature is replete with analyses of creativity as related to personality traits and organizational constraints. Based on Mednick's (1962) associationist position, it was felt that information use patterns play a key role in an individual's process of creativity.In order to test this idea, 29 academic and 36 industrial physical scientists and engineers were categorized as either creative and productive; productive, but not creative; or noncreative and nonproductive on the basis of peer evaluation. Their information seeking and receiving behavior and attitudes were then measured and related to the criterion group membership.Two significant results emerged; First, consistent with the associationist position, variety of exposure to information content, in terms of scientific disciplines from which the information was received, was significantly different for the three groups, with the creative group having the greatest variety. Second, group membership can, with a fairly high probability, be predicted based on information seeking behavior and attitudes.

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00601.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper argues against the laws‐systems‐rules trichotomy which Cushman and Pearce use to organize theoretical options in the communication field. This trichotomy of perspectives does reflect the groupings into which scholars have come to classify themselves, but the analytic implications of this division follow strongly and confound the actual levels of choice inherent in theory building. The organization of theoretical alternatives by attempting to identify a type of necessity unique to each obscures fundamental differences among theorists, unprofitably restricts the range of theoretical alternatives, and will not encompass the variety of viable theoretic perspectives now before us. In place of the laws‐rules‐systems trichotomy this paper offers a multilevel analytic framework for organizing theoretical alternatives in commun

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00602.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY

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An earlier model of personal space expectations and their violations is expanded through specification of primitive terms, constitutive definitions, and the prepositional logic underlying the model. Five sample hypotheses are deduced and experimentally tested. Results generally support the model: violations by rewarding communicators produced more positive outcomes than violations by punishing communicators, and the relationships between distance and communication outcomes for each type of communicator were curvilinear.

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00603.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY

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This study conceptualized perceived trustworthiness of the individual, self‐disclosure to the individual, perceived trustworthiness of people in general, and disclosive tendencies to other people in general to be indicants of a broader construct of trust. Self‐disclosure and perceived trustworthiness of the individual were found to be related constructs assessing differential aspects of the trust construct. Likewise, self‐disclosure and perceived trustworthiness of the individual were found to be criterial attributes of interpersonal solidarity. These communication‐related phenomena indicated the solidarity of interpersonal relationships. In the progress of the research, a 20‐item measure of perceived interpersonal solidarity was developed as a criterion for assessing the impact of communication‐related variables on interpersonal relationships. Other exploratory research issues were i

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00604.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY

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This study reports two experiments designed to further our understanding of the effects of systematic desensitization (SD) training on college students. Experiment 1 demonstrates that students who participate in SD report significantly higher self‐esteem after doing so. Experiment 2 provides behavioral support for SD. Using Mulac and Sherman's BASA scale, it was discovered that students who successfully completed the SD program exhibited more verbal fluency and less rigidity in their speeches than did those students who were originally as anxious but did not join the program. Also included was the measurement of a student's predisposition towards verbal behavior. Mortensen, Arntson, and Lustig's scale was used to measure this predisposition. The results showed, however, that students in SD did not differ significantly from those who chose not to join S

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00605.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper details four alternative perspectives for conceptualizing the interpersonal communication process, emphasizing their implications for the theorist and researcher of interpersonal communication. The four perspectives discussed are thesituationalapproach,the developmentalapproach,the law‐governedapproach, and therule‐governedapproach. The strengths and limitations of each perspective are examined, and some suggested priorities for future research are offe

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00606.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0360-3989    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1978.tb00607.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1978

数据来源: WILEY