Kathy Kellermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 107232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Kellermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kellermann |
| SIGNATURE | KELLERMANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Conversational Topic along a Continuum of Perspectives: Conceptual Issues
The literature regarding conversational topic is vast. Conversational topic, however, has various conceptualizations. For example, some studies examine topic changes, whereas others examine the broad subjects about which people talk. Four different perspectives (i.e., topic as a noun phrase, topic as a bounded unit, topic as a perception of language users, and topic as a subject matter of talk), focusing on different conceptions of topic for oste…
Topical Profiling: Emergent, Co-Occurring, and Relationally Defining Topics in Talk
This research profiles the topics of everyday talk, pinpointing topical patterns that are emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining. Participants reported topics of their conversations with particular types of people (e.g., parents, significant others, bosses, professors, service people, etc.). The most commonly emerging topics were those most central to participants' lives and that helped them "check in" with (i.e., update) and "check ou…
The meaning of means: The means don't justify the ends
This research examines assumptions underlying the employment of group means in communication research. The vector of outcomes of a group mean typically represents outcomes of different individuals rather than different outcomes of an individual. When the vector represents different individuals' outcomes, the sample mean can violate criteria of unbiasedness, consistency, and sufficiency. This research explores whether different individuals' outcom…
Classifying Compliance Gaining Messages: Taxonomic Disorder and Strategic Confusion
This research examines how problems with classification systems limit knowledge claims that can be made about compliance gaining message behavior. Strategies and their operationalizations from 74 compliance gaining message classifcation systems were previously integrated into a 64–category scheme that lists each strategy along with all definitions and examples located in the literature representing that strategy (Kellermann & Cole, 1991). Difficu…
Extrapolating Beyond: Processes of Uncertainty Reduction
Communication: Inherently strategic and primarily automatic
(1992). Communication: Inherently strategic and primarily automatic. Communication Monographs: Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 288-300
Strategies of conversational retreat: When parting is not sweet sorrow
This research explores strategies and tactics persons use to unilaterally retreat from conversations. Based on metagoal theory, efficiency and social appropriateness were expected to differentiate retreat strategies from each other, with strategies used in mutually negotiated endings being located in the socially appropriate and relatively efficient area of the conversational retreat strategy space. Retreat strategies were found to include verbal…
The Conversation MOP II. Progression Through Scenes in Discourse
Journal Article The Conversation MOP: II. Progression Through Scenes in Discourse Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is on the faculty of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 17, Issue 3, March 1991, Pages 385–414, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1991.tb00238.x Publ…
The conversation MOP: III. Timing of scenes in discourse
When Ignorance Is Bliss The Role of Motivation to Reduce Uncertainty in Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Journal Article When Ignorance Is Bliss: The Role of Motivation to Reduce Uncertainty in Uncertainty Reduction Theory Get access Kathy Kellermann, Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is on the faculty in the Communication Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rodney Reynolds Rodney Reynolds 2Rodney Reynolds is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speec…
Coherence: A Meaningful Adhesive for Discourse
Rejecting relevance, topicality, cohesive devices, syntactic structure, and comprehension as synonymous with and as necessary and/or sufficient for coherence, this chapter develops coherence as a cognitive judgment on the meaningful state of a text. This judgment of meaningfulness is determined by the relationship between the inferential demands of a text and the knowledge structures (schemata) available to the individual to accommodate those dem…
The conversation mop: Scenes in the stream of discourse
The interface of thought and talk was examined in a two‐stage research project that focused on the nature of cognitive structures guiding discourse and the nature of discourse structures produced by the cognitive structures. Schank's (1982) theory of dynamic memory employs scenes as the building blocks for cognitive structures that represent action sequences. These scenes are structured by memory organization packets (MOPs). Scenes in a conversat…
The Negativity Effect in Interaction It's All in Your Point of View
Journal Article The Negativity Effect in Interaction: It's All in Your Point of View Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 16, Issue 2, December 1989, Pages 147–183, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1989.tb00208.x Published: …
Conservatism in Judgment: Is the Risky Shift-ee Really Risky, Really
Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction
Journal Article Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1983) is an assistant professor of communication at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 13, Issue 1, September 1986, Pages 41–75, h…
Affect and Social Information Acquisition: Sit Back, Relax, and Tell Me About Yourself
The negativity effect and its implications for initial interaction
The negativity effect occurs in the formation of judgments when disproportionate weight is given to negative information in contrast to equidistantly valenced positive information. While multiple explanations for such an effect exist, the extremity hypothesis advanced by Fiske (1980) can be modified and expanded not only to provide a thorough understanding of the negativity effect, but to explain positivity effects (where disproportionate weight …
When Ignorance Is Bliss The Role of Motivation to Reduce Uncertainty in Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Journal Article When Ignorance Is Bliss: The Role of Motivation to Reduce Uncertainty in Uncertainty Reduction Theory Get access Kathy Kellermann, Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is on the faculty in the Communication Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rodney Reynolds Rodney Reynolds 2Rodney Reynolds is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speec…
Communication: Inherently strategic and primarily automatic
(1992). Communication: Inherently strategic and primarily automatic. Communication Monographs: Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 288-300
The negativity effect and its implications for initial interaction
The negativity effect occurs in the formation of judgments when disproportionate weight is given to negative information in contrast to equidistantly valenced positive information. While multiple explanations for such an effect exist, the extremity hypothesis advanced by Fiske (1980) can be modified and expanded not only to provide a thorough understanding of the negativity effect, but to explain positivity effects (where disproportionate weight …
Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction
Journal Article Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1983) is an assistant professor of communication at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 13, Issue 1, September 1986, Pages 41–75, h…
Classifying Compliance Gaining Messages: Taxonomic Disorder and Strategic Confusion
This research examines how problems with classification systems limit knowledge claims that can be made about compliance gaining message behavior. Strategies and their operationalizations from 74 compliance gaining message classifcation systems were previously integrated into a 64–category scheme that lists each strategy along with all definitions and examples located in the literature representing that strategy (Kellermann & Cole, 1991). Difficu…
The Conversation MOP II. Progression Through Scenes in Discourse
Journal Article The Conversation MOP: II. Progression Through Scenes in Discourse Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is on the faculty of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 17, Issue 3, March 1991, Pages 385–414, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1991.tb00238.x Publ…
The conversation mop: Scenes in the stream of discourse
The interface of thought and talk was examined in a two‐stage research project that focused on the nature of cognitive structures guiding discourse and the nature of discourse structures produced by the cognitive structures. Schank's (1982) theory of dynamic memory employs scenes as the building blocks for cognitive structures that represent action sequences. These scenes are structured by memory organization packets (MOPs). Scenes in a conversat…
The Negativity Effect in Interaction It's All in Your Point of View
Journal Article The Negativity Effect in Interaction: It's All in Your Point of View Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 16, Issue 2, December 1989, Pages 147–183, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1989.tb00208.x Published: …
Strategies of conversational retreat: When parting is not sweet sorrow
This research explores strategies and tactics persons use to unilaterally retreat from conversations. Based on metagoal theory, efficiency and social appropriateness were expected to differentiate retreat strategies from each other, with strategies used in mutually negotiated endings being located in the socially appropriate and relatively efficient area of the conversational retreat strategy space. Retreat strategies were found to include verbal…
The conversation MOP: III. Timing of scenes in discourse
Topical Profiling: Emergent, Co-Occurring, and Relationally Defining Topics in Talk
This research profiles the topics of everyday talk, pinpointing topical patterns that are emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining. Participants reported topics of their conversations with particular types of people (e.g., parents, significant others, bosses, professors, service people, etc.). The most commonly emerging topics were those most central to participants' lives and that helped them "check in" with (i.e., update) and "check ou…
Affect and Social Information Acquisition: Sit Back, Relax, and Tell Me About Yourself
Coherence: A Meaningful Adhesive for Discourse
Rejecting relevance, topicality, cohesive devices, syntactic structure, and comprehension as synonymous with and as necessary and/or sufficient for coherence, this chapter develops coherence as a cognitive judgment on the meaningful state of a text. This judgment of meaningfulness is determined by the relationship between the inferential demands of a text and the knowledge structures (schemata) available to the individual to accommodate those dem…
Affect and Social Information Acquisition: Sit Back, Relax, and Tell Me About Yourself
The negativity effect and its implications for initial interaction
The negativity effect occurs in the formation of judgments when disproportionate weight is given to negative information in contrast to equidistantly valenced positive information. While multiple explanations for such an effect exist, the extremity hypothesis advanced by Fiske (1980) can be modified and expanded not only to provide a thorough understanding of the negativity effect, but to explain positivity effects (where disproportionate weight …
Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction
Journal Article Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1983) is an assistant professor of communication at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 13, Issue 1, September 1986, Pages 41–75, h…
Conservatism in Judgment: Is the Risky Shift-ee Really Risky, Really
Coherence: A Meaningful Adhesive for Discourse
Rejecting relevance, topicality, cohesive devices, syntactic structure, and comprehension as synonymous with and as necessary and/or sufficient for coherence, this chapter develops coherence as a cognitive judgment on the meaningful state of a text. This judgment of meaningfulness is determined by the relationship between the inferential demands of a text and the knowledge structures (schemata) available to the individual to accommodate those dem…
The conversation mop: Scenes in the stream of discourse
The interface of thought and talk was examined in a two‐stage research project that focused on the nature of cognitive structures guiding discourse and the nature of discourse structures produced by the cognitive structures. Schank's (1982) theory of dynamic memory employs scenes as the building blocks for cognitive structures that represent action sequences. These scenes are structured by memory organization packets (MOPs). Scenes in a conversat…
The Negativity Effect in Interaction It's All in Your Point of View
Journal Article The Negativity Effect in Interaction: It's All in Your Point of View Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 16, Issue 2, December 1989, Pages 147–183, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1989.tb00208.x Published: …
The conversation MOP: III. Timing of scenes in discourse
When Ignorance Is Bliss The Role of Motivation to Reduce Uncertainty in Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Journal Article When Ignorance Is Bliss: The Role of Motivation to Reduce Uncertainty in Uncertainty Reduction Theory Get access Kathy Kellermann, Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is on the faculty in the Communication Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rodney Reynolds Rodney Reynolds 2Rodney Reynolds is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speec…
Strategies of conversational retreat: When parting is not sweet sorrow
This research explores strategies and tactics persons use to unilaterally retreat from conversations. Based on metagoal theory, efficiency and social appropriateness were expected to differentiate retreat strategies from each other, with strategies used in mutually negotiated endings being located in the socially appropriate and relatively efficient area of the conversational retreat strategy space. Retreat strategies were found to include verbal…
The Conversation MOP II. Progression Through Scenes in Discourse
Journal Article The Conversation MOP: II. Progression Through Scenes in Discourse Get access Kathy Kellermann Kathy Kellermann 1Kathy Kellermann is on the faculty of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 17, Issue 3, March 1991, Pages 385–414, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1991.tb00238.x Publ…
Communication: Inherently strategic and primarily automatic
(1992). Communication: Inherently strategic and primarily automatic. Communication Monographs: Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 288-300
Extrapolating Beyond: Processes of Uncertainty Reduction
Classifying Compliance Gaining Messages: Taxonomic Disorder and Strategic Confusion
This research examines how problems with classification systems limit knowledge claims that can be made about compliance gaining message behavior. Strategies and their operationalizations from 74 compliance gaining message classifcation systems were previously integrated into a 64–category scheme that lists each strategy along with all definitions and examples located in the literature representing that strategy (Kellermann & Cole, 1991). Difficu…
The meaning of means: The means don't justify the ends
This research examines assumptions underlying the employment of group means in communication research. The vector of outcomes of a group mean typically represents outcomes of different individuals rather than different outcomes of an individual. When the vector represents different individuals' outcomes, the sample mean can violate criteria of unbiasedness, consistency, and sufficiency. This research explores whether different individuals' outcom…
Topical Profiling: Emergent, Co-Occurring, and Relationally Defining Topics in Talk
This research profiles the topics of everyday talk, pinpointing topical patterns that are emergent, co-occurring, and relationally defining. Participants reported topics of their conversations with particular types of people (e.g., parents, significant others, bosses, professors, service people, etc.). The most commonly emerging topics were those most central to participants' lives and that helped them "check in" with (i.e., update) and "check ou…
Conversational Topic along a Continuum of Perspectives: Conceptual Issues
The literature regarding conversational topic is vast. Conversational topic, however, has various conceptualizations. For example, some studies examine topic changes, whereas others examine the broad subjects about which people talk. Four different perspectives (i.e., topic as a noun phrase, topic as a bounded unit, topic as a perception of language users, and topic as a subject matter of talk), focusing on different conceptions of topic for oste…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Communication (5 works)