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2006 Interpersonal Communication Division Panels
April 5 - April 9, 2006, Dallas/Addison, TX
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION ACROSS DISTANCES AND
BOUNDARIES
- Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
- Chair: Patricia Amason, University of Arkansas
- Distance and Relationships: The Effects of Moving Away on Platonic Relationships.
Jennifer Bernardi, Louisiana State University
- Family Values: Keeping the Publication Connection via CMC.
Marceline Thompson-Hayes, Arkansas State University; Danna Gibson, Columbus State
University; Andrea Scott Towers, University of Central Florida; and Lynne M. Webb, University
of Arkansas
- An Interpersonal and Relational Study in How Privacy Management and Boundaries are
Maintained in Sibling Relationships.
L. Lori Poole, University of Denver
- It's Not Your Mother's Interpersonal Communication: Erving Goffman and Carl Rogers
in Cyberspace.
Sarah E. Cavendish, University of Kentucky
- Names and Compliance-Gaining.
Thomas Baglan, Nerma Reggans, Melissa Jackson, and Vicki Spann, Arkansas State
University
- Respondent: Amber Walker, Pennsylvania State University
ATTRIBUTIONS AND ATTACHMENT, STORIES AND EMOTIONS IN
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
- Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
- Chair: Patricia Rockwell, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- The Role of Relationship Enhancing Attributions in Interaction Appearance Theory.
Kelly Albada, North Carolina State University
- Understanding Attachment Theory and Relationship Maintenance in Father-Daughter
Relationships.
Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter, Texas Tech University
- Narrative and Recovery from Alcoholism: An Interpersonal Approach.
William M. Weathers, University of Kentucky
- Mediators' Emotional Experience: A Pilot Study.
Melissa Young, Greg Stephens, and Erica Gann, Texas Christian University
- Respondent: James Pauff, Tarleton State University
FINANCES, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS
- Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
- Chair: Andrew F. Herrmann, University of South Florida
- Family Matters: Negotiating Social Class in the Home.
Sara B. Dykins Callahan, University of South Florida
- A Future With Hope: The Social Construction of Hope, Help and Dialogic Reconciliation
in a Community Mental Health System of Care.
Christine S. Davis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Undesirable and Desiring: The Stigma of an Inability to Consume.
Liz Edgecomb, University of South Florida
- Heart is Where the Home Was: A Family's Stories of Foreclosure.
Andrew F. Herrmann, University of South Florida
TOP PAPERS IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
- Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
- Chair: Michael Irvin Arrington, University of Kentucky
- * Differential Benefits and Risks of Nonverbal Affection Behavior for Women and
Men.
Kory Floyd, Arizona State University, and Alan C. Mikkelson, Whitworth College
- ** Interpersonal Communication and the Illness Experience in the Sex and the City
Breast Cancer Narrative.
Jennifer B. Gray, University of Kentucky
- Perceptions of Normal Family Communication in the U.S.: A Preliminary Assessment
among Young Adults.
Todd Lee Goen, University of Georgia, Lynne M. Webb, Patricia Amason, and Robert H. Wicks,
University of Arkansas
- Sequential Persuasion in 'Change Relationship' Goals: The Effects of Goal Complexity
and Resistance Strategy.
David C. Schrader, Oklahoma State University
- Stretching Our 'Family Values:' Commitment, Communication, and Confronting
Heteronormativity in Interpersonal Research.
Elissa Foster, San Jose State University
- Respondent: J. Donald Ragsdale, Sam Houston State University
- * Top paper
- ** Top student paper
ABOLISHING FAMILY VIOLENCE THROUGH CHANGING VERBAL
AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION PATTERNS
- Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
- Chair: James Stacy, Louisiana State University at Alexandria
- Panelists:
- Marcus Porter, LSU Baton Rouge
- Jennifer Fontenot, LSU Alexandria
- Elizabeth Norwood, LSU Alexandria
- Vicki Parrish, Northwestern State University (LA)
- The panel will focus on family violence from a communication perspective. A survivor of
marital
abuse will tell her story, and other panelists will discuss family relationships and programs of
intervention now in place in Louisiana.
