Table Of Contents:

• VOLUME 1: INTRODUCTION, HISTORY & COMMUNICATOR CHARACTERISTICS
• Introduction
• Editors' Introduction
• History
• Interpersonal Communication: Theoretical perspectives, future prospects
• Personality
• Personality and Interpersonal Communication
• Conversational Involvement and Loneliness
• Validity of the PRCA as an Index of Oral Communication Apprehension
• Affirming and Nonaffirming Style, Dyad Sex, and the Perception of Argumentation and Verbal Aggression in an Interpersonal Dispute
• Developing and Testing Rational Models of Message Design
• Communication Apprehension as Temperamental Expression: A communibiology paradigm
• Big Five Personality Traits and Relationship Quality: Self-reported, observational, and physiological evidence
• Attachment theory: A communication perspective
• Cognition
• A Cognitive Approach to Human Communication: An action assembly theory
• Conversational Memory: The effects of recall mode and memory expectancies on remembrances of natural conversations
• Communication Failure and Plan Adaptation: If at first you don't succeed, say it louder and slower
• Attribution Theory and Research: Review and implications for communication
• The Negativity Effect and its Implications for Initial Interaction
• VOLUME 2: PROCESSES & MESSAGES
• Processes
• The Exchange of Nonverbal Intimacy: A critical review of dyadic models
• The Chameleon Effect as Social Glue: Evidence for the evolutionary significance of nonconscious mimicry
• Speech Accommodation Theory: The first decade and beyond
• Interpersonal Expectancy Effects: The first 345 studies
• Interaction Appearance Theory: Changing perceptions of physical attractiveness through social interaction
• Accuracy in Interpersonal Perception: A social-relations analysis
• Interpersonal Processes Involving Impression Regulation and Management
• The Construct of Intent in Interpersonal Communication
• Dialectical Contradictions in Relationship Development
• Messages
• Toward a Multidimensional Approach to the Study of Self-disclosure
• Nonverbal Behavior and Self-presentation
• Emotions are Social
• Communication Paradoxes and the Maintenance of Living Relationships with the Dying
• Truths, Lies, and Equivocations: The effects of conflicting goals on discourse
• Excuses: Their effective role in the negotiation of reality
• "Memorable" messages
• Computer-mediated Communication: Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction
• Compliments: A descriptive taxonomy
• VOLUME 3: FORMING AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS
• Development and Maintenance of Relationships
• Perceptions of Communication Behavior Associated with Relationship Terms
• Turning Points in Developing Romantic Relationships
• Maintenance Strategies and Romantic Relationship Type, Gender and Relational Characteristics
• Attraction and Initial Interaction
• The Measurement of Interpersonal Attraction
• An Overview (and Underview) of Research and Theory within the Attraction Paradigm
• Some Explorations in Initial Interaction and Beyond: Toward a developmental theory of interpersonal communication
• Small Talk: Social functions
• The Affinity-seeking Function of Communication
• Commitment and Comfort
• The Normative Context of Advice as Social Support
• The Production of Comforting Messages: Social-cognitive foundations
• Recipient's Criteria for Evaluating the Skillfulness of Comforting Communication and the Outcomes of Comforting Interactions
• Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect: Responses to dissatisfaction in romantic involvements
• Conflict
• Coding Verbal Conflict Tactics: Nonverbal and perceptual correlates of the "avoidance-distributative-integrative" distinction
• Facework Competence in Intercultural Conflict: An updated face-negotiation theory
• The Creation of Defensiveness in Social Interaction
• Marital Interaction: Physiological linkage and affective exchange
• When Words Hurt: The effects of perceived intentionality on interpersonal relationships
• Family Secrets: Forms, functions, and correlates
• VOLUME 4: PERSUASION AND COMPETENCE
• Persuasion
• Harnessing the Science of Persuasion
• Theories of Persuasion
• A Meta-analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for effective public health campaigns
• The Empirical Study of the Persuasive Effects of Evidence: The status after 50 years of research
• Domineeringness and Dominance: A transactional view
• The Theory of Reasoned Action and Self-construal: Evidence from three cultures
• The Persuasiveness of Source Credibility: A critical review of five decades' evidence
• Compliance-gaining Message Strategies: A typology and some findings concerning the effects of situational differences
• Competence
• Communication Competence as Knowledge, Skill, and Impression
• Explication and Test of a Model of Communicative Competence
• Methods of Social Skills Training and Development
• Family Communication Standards: What counts as excellent family communication and how are such standards associated with family satisfaction?
• Assessment of Basic Social Skills
• Thin Slices of Expressive Behavior as Predictors of Interpersonal Consequences: A meta-analysis
• Dimensions of Intercultural Effectiveness: Culture specific or culture general?
• Issues in the Development of a Theory of Interpersonal Competence in the Intercultural Context