Communication Research articles from April 1998

Communication Research archives from April 1998

Understanding obstacles preventing compliance: conceptualization and compliance.
April 1, 1998... Although the obstacle hypothesis has proven useful in understanding communication choices during request sequences, its utility is limited by the lack of explication of the obstacle construct. This article examines the types of obstacles that...

In-group and out-group communication patterns in international organizations: implications for social identity theory.
April 1, 1998... This study sought to find out whether social distance associated with social identity manifests itself in intergroup differentiation in communication patterns in multiple types of communication networks with the in-group and out-group members....

Preserving face in refusal situations.
April 1, 1998... Individuals often fabricate socially appropriate reasons for rejecting a request while withholding real but hurtful ones. Such synthetic obstacles to compliance become conventionalized ways of turning down requests. However, when socially...

Individual media dependency relations within television shopping programming: a causal model reviewed and revised.
April 1, 1998... This study uses media system dependency theory to review and expand an individual media dependency (IMD) model for television home shopping. The model is extended to account for audience-viewer effects as measured by a newly developed Broadcast...

Factors moderating the effect of televised aggression on viewer behavior.
April 1, 1998... Some researchers and theorists still question the existence of a link between televised aggression and aggression by viewers of televised aggression, but most quantitative reviews of the literature have reported overall positive linear...