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Uncertain terms: message features of online cancer news

Bilingual Health Communication and Medical Interpreters: Managing Role Performances and Communicative Goals

Colloquy on information seeking

Colloquy on Information Seeking - Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts

Communication and Uncertainty Management

Communication in the Management of Uncertainty: The Case of Persons Living with HIV or AIDS - Communication is a means of managing uncertainty. In a state of uncertainty: (a) information seeking can reduce uncertainty by allowing for better discrimination between or among alternatives; (b) information seeking can increase uncertainty by increasing the number of alternatives, or by blurring the distinction between or among alternatives; and (c) information avoidance can maintain uncertainty. Individuals living with HIV or AIDS, like many other chronically-ill or terminally-ill individuals, must manage high levels of uncertainty about their manage illness. Participants in a focus group study of persons with HIV or AIDS reported effective uncertainty management, including managing uncertainty that was challenging, managing uncertainty that was essential for maintaining hope, learning to live with chronic uncertainty, and managing information problems. New information can serve uncertainty management even if it fails to reduce the number or ambiguity of alternatives, because new information can invite a reappraisal of uncertainty. A theory of uncertainty management, based on these findings is offered

Collective AIDS activism and individuals' perceived self-advocacy in physician-patient communication

Collective AIDS Activism and Individuals' Perceived Self-Advocacy in Physician-Patient Communication

Research Articles - Majority-Minority Influence: Identifying Argumentative Patterns and Predicting Argument-Outcome Links

Majority-minority influence : identifying argumentative patterns and predicting argument-outcome links

Analyses of HCR and the communication discipline

Changing Conceptions of "Message Effects": A 24-Year Overview

Argument in Group Decision Making: Explicating a Process Model and Investigating the Argument-Outcome Link - For this research, we extended previous descriptive studies of group argument by (a) positing a theoretical process model of group argument and (b) investigating the predictive nature of argument in groups. Following development of the group argument process model, we employed two frameworks-the Group Valence Model and two versions of the Distribution of Valence Model-to study the argument-outcome link. We expanded all three models to include proportional, as well as dichotomous, variables. The results revealed that all models were fairly accurate predictors: However, in cases in which the models differed in prediction, the DVM Rank Sum model was more accurate. All the argument acts investigated were fairly accurate predictors of group outcomes, except for disagreement-relevant intrusions. Interpretations of these findings are offered, and avenues for future research are suggested

Argument in group decision making : explicating a process model and investigating the argument-outcome link

Sex differences and group argument : a theoretical framework and empirical investigation

Theorizing communication and health

Information manipulation theory : a replication and assessment

Revitalizing the study of small group communication

M1: Analysis of Treatment x Replication Designs