Interpersonal communication

About: Interpersonal communication is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26243 publications have been published within this topic receiving 767999 citations.

Social Speech and Social Interaction: Egocentrism Revisited.

Abstract: GARVEY, CATHERINE, and HOGAN, ROBERT. Social Speech and Social Interaction: Egocentrism Revisited. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1973, 44, 562-568. To study the development of social speech, 18 dyads of children (31/2-5) were videotaped in 15-minute play sessions. Behavior was coded in terms of the time children spent in mutual interaction, and speech was coded in terms of the degree to which utterances were adapted to the verbal or nonverbal behavior of the partner. The results indicated a high level of mutual responsiveness in both speech and behavior. The paper suggests that children in this age range are capable of genuinely social behavior; it concludes that early forms of social speech entail a surprising level of interpersonal understanding, and that these speech forms are amenable to systematic study.

Has Dating Become More Egalitarian? A 35 Year Review Using Sex Roles

Abstract: In this selective review, we examined research on heterosexual dating published in Sex Roles since its inception to determine if dating practices have become more egalitarian over the past 35 years. An analysis of current best-selling dating advice books suggests that gender roles continue to be institutionalized in cultural scripts. A sexual scripts framework was used to categorize research findings to determine if the empirical evidence confirmed the durability of gender roles over time or revealed that dating has become less gender-typed. Research in Sex Roles suggests that heterosexual dating among young adults in the U. S. remains highly gender-typed in terms of cultural scripts (e.g., beliefs, ideals, and expectations), as well as interpersonal scripts (e.g., actual interpersonal emotions, interpersonal behaviors, or behaviors aimed at achieving or signaling a partner). Some variability was observed in interpersonal scripts in terms of occasional initiation of dates by women, for instance, but was not sufficiently widely used to challenge the dominant script. Functional reasons for the persistence of gender stereotypes in dating are presented. In addition, a friendship script is proposed as an alternative, egalitarian model of dating that might fulfill the same functions.

An extension of Marcia's Identity Status Interview into the interpersonal domain.

Abstract: This article describes an extension of Marcia's (1966) Identity Status Interview into three interpersonal domains: friendships, dating, and sex roles The Identity Status Interview method is assessed favorably in terms of identity theory, justification for the three new sections is provided on the basis of theory and research on sex differences in adolescent identity, and methodological refinements in the interview are described A study is reported in which the extended interview was administered to 41 male and 40 female high school juniors and seniors Average percentage of exact agreement for ratings of exploration, commitment, and identity status was over 70% when two coders were used and over 94% when the ratings of two out of three coders were used It is concluded that this extended interview is psychometrically sound and provides a method for assessing interpersonal issues salient to contemporary adolescents

Does citation reflect social structure?: longitudinal evidence from the Globenet interdisciplinary research group

Abstract: Many authors have posited a social component in citation, the consensus being that the citers and citees often have interpersonal as well as intellectual ties. Evidence for this belief has been rather meager, however, in part because social networks researchers have lacked bibliometric data (e.g., pairwise citation counts from online databases), and citation analysts have lacked sociometric data (e.g., pairwise measures of acquaintanceship). In 1997 Nazer extensively measured personal relationships and communication behaviors in what we call "Globenet," an international group of 16 researchers from seven disciplines that was established in 1993 to study human development. Since Globenet's membership is known, it was possible during 2002 to obtain citation records for all members in databases of the Institute for Scientific Information. This permitted examination of how members cited each other (intercited) in journal articles over the past three decades and in a 1999 book to which they all contributed. It was also possible to explore links between the intercitation data and the social and communication data. Using network-analytic techniques, we look at the growth of intercitation over time, the extent to which it follows disciplinary or inter-disciplinary lines, whether it covaries with degrees of acquaintanceship, whether it reflects Globenet's organizational structure, whether it is associated with particular in-group communication patterns, and whether it is related to the cocitation of Globenet members. Results show cocitation to be a powerful predictor of intercitation in the journal articles, while being an editor or co-author is an important predictor in the book. Intellectualties based on shared content did better as predictors than content-neutral socialties like friendship. However, interciters in Globenet communicated more than did noninterciters.