Providing a thorough review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill
enhancement, this Handbook serves as a comprehensive and contemporary survey of …

The expressive behaviors of adult and infant‐adult dyads are marked both by patterns of
reciprocity and compensation. An alternative to the equilibrium and arousal‐labeling …

An essential characteristic of human communicative behavior is that it is at once novel and
creative yet patterned and repetitive. This observation suggests processes of selection of …

Few behaviors have been found that consistently differentiate deceivers from truth-tellers.
Consequently, recent research has focused upon identifying the factors that impact upon the …

Children with complex care needs (CCNs) are in need of improved access to healthcare
services, communication, and support from healthcare professionals to ensure high-quality …

Questionnaires were obtained from 310 participants who reported on past intimate
relationships. Items assessed how the relationship and partner were perceived and how the …

There may be no observation about communication skills that is more fundamental, and
more far-reaching in its implications, than that they are developed and refined over time …

The impetus for this chapter derives from two characteristics of theory building, both affect-
laden, but of very different hedonic tone. On one hand, few pursuits are as satisfying as …

This chapter reviews the program of research on multiple-goal message production
conducted within the action assembly theory framework. Action assembly theory has served …

The last two decades have seen the development of a number of models that have proven
particularly important in advancing understanding of message-production processes. Now it …