Barbara J O’keefe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4514002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara J O’keefe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara J |
| FAMILY NAME | O’keefe |
| SIGNATURE | O’KEEFE B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Charles Arthur Willard (1945–2021): In Memoriam
Managing the Flow of Ideas: A Local Management Approach to Message Design
This chapter develops the case for a local management model of message design. In contrast to other current approaches, in which message structure is understood in terms of holistic-functional categories, a local management approach separates the analysis of message structure and message function. Message structure is understood as patterns of expressed thoughts. Message function is understood in terms of context-sensitive mappings between antece…
Refusals and Rejections Designing Messages to Serve Multiple Goals
This experiment was conducted to test a rational model of the elaboration of themes found in rejection messages. The experiment involved a situation in which a candidate for membership in an organization must be rejected by an agent of the organization. The model proposed that five themes would be found in the rejection messages, elaborated selectively as a function of the relationship between organizational agent and candidate (friend vs. strang…
Against Theory
Journal Article Against Theory Get access Barbara O'Keefe Barbara O'Keefe 1Barbara O'Keefe is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 75–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01278.x Published: 07 February 2006
Sense and Sensitivity
Journal Article Sense and Sensitivity Get access Barbara J. O'Keefe Barbara J. O'Keefe 1Barbara J. O'Keefe is associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 42, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 123–130, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00784.x Published: 07 February 2006
Developing and Testing Rational Models of Message Design
Rethinking Communication: Vol. 2: Paradigm Exemplars
The logic of message design: Individual differences in reasoning about communication
It is hypothesized that there are systematic individual differences in the premises used to generate messages through ends to means reasoning. Reliance on these alternative sets of premises and beliefs—referred to as “message design logics"—can be detected in several different features of message design, including the kind of project undertaken in the message, the kinds of elements that appear in the message, the principles of coherence that conn…
The pursuit of multiple objectives in face‐to‐face persuasive interactions: Effects of construct differentiation on message organization
This is paper describes the development of a system for analyzing the management of multiple communicative goals in interpersonal arguments. The message analysis system was designed to classify conversationally produced messages in terms of (1) the communicative role of the message producer; (2) the position taken toward the issue on the floor; (3) the explicitness with which conflict is acknowledged; and (4) the manner in which the subsidiary co…
Message Design Logic and Message Goal Structure Effects on Perceptions of Message Quality in Regulative Communication Situations
O'Keefe has suggested that variations in the goal sets individuals choose to pursue and the form of reasoning they employ are sources of variation in message designs. She offered an analysis of the specific consequences of differences in goals (“message goal structure”) and in forms of reasoning (“message design logics”), and shouted how this analysis could be used to describe systematically functional variations in regulative messages. The study…
"Nonstationary Data Should Not Be "Corrected
Ellis (1979), in his study of interaction patterns in groups, discovered that his data did not satisfy the assumptions of a simple Markov model. In particular, he found that his data failed to satisfy the assumption of stationarity. In response to this, Ellis employed a new composite matrix procedure to generate a single set of predicted one-step transition probabilities. This essay argues that this procedure (1) does not generate one-step probab…
Construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity as predictors of the number and strategic adaptation of arguments and appeals in a persuasive message
Subjects differing in construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity wrote persuasive messages directed at a fictitious target person and gave written justifications for each argument or appeal used in their messages. Messages were scored for number of appeals used and appeal justifications were scored for the degree of strategic adaptation to the message target they reflected. Construct comprehensiveness correlated positively and significa…
Construct Individuality, Cognitive Complexity, and the Formation and Remembering of Interpersonal Impressions
Subjects differing in cognitive complexity formed impressions from either (1) three positive and three negative experimenter-selected traits, (2) three traits of each evaluation generated by the subject in a preliminary session, or (3) three experimenter-selected traits of one valence and three subject-generated traits of the opposite valence. Additionally, subjects reconstructed their impressions from memory after eight weeks. Impressions were d…
The logic of message design: Individual differences in reasoning about communication
It is hypothesized that there are systematic individual differences in the premises used to generate messages through ends to means reasoning. Reliance on these alternative sets of premises and beliefs—referred to as “message design logics"—can be detected in several different features of message design, including the kind of project undertaken in the message, the kinds of elements that appear in the message, the principles of coherence that conn…
The pursuit of multiple objectives in face‐to‐face persuasive interactions: Effects of construct differentiation on message organization
This is paper describes the development of a system for analyzing the management of multiple communicative goals in interpersonal arguments. The message analysis system was designed to classify conversationally produced messages in terms of (1) the communicative role of the message producer; (2) the position taken toward the issue on the floor; (3) the explicitness with which conflict is acknowledged; and (4) the manner in which the subsidiary co…
Message Design Logic and Message Goal Structure Effects on Perceptions of Message Quality in Regulative Communication Situations
O'Keefe has suggested that variations in the goal sets individuals choose to pursue and the form of reasoning they employ are sources of variation in message designs. She offered an analysis of the specific consequences of differences in goals (“message goal structure”) and in forms of reasoning (“message design logics”), and shouted how this analysis could be used to describe systematically functional variations in regulative messages. The study…
Refusals and Rejections Designing Messages to Serve Multiple Goals
This experiment was conducted to test a rational model of the elaboration of themes found in rejection messages. The experiment involved a situation in which a candidate for membership in an organization must be rejected by an agent of the organization. The model proposed that five themes would be found in the rejection messages, elaborated selectively as a function of the relationship between organizational agent and candidate (friend vs. strang…
Developing and Testing Rational Models of Message Design
Construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity as predictors of the number and strategic adaptation of arguments and appeals in a persuasive message
Subjects differing in construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity wrote persuasive messages directed at a fictitious target person and gave written justifications for each argument or appeal used in their messages. Messages were scored for number of appeals used and appeal justifications were scored for the degree of strategic adaptation to the message target they reflected. Construct comprehensiveness correlated positively and significa…
Managing the Flow of Ideas: A Local Management Approach to Message Design
This chapter develops the case for a local management model of message design. In contrast to other current approaches, in which message structure is understood in terms of holistic-functional categories, a local management approach separates the analysis of message structure and message function. Message structure is understood as patterns of expressed thoughts. Message function is understood in terms of context-sensitive mappings between antece…
"Nonstationary Data Should Not Be "Corrected
Ellis (1979), in his study of interaction patterns in groups, discovered that his data did not satisfy the assumptions of a simple Markov model. In particular, he found that his data failed to satisfy the assumption of stationarity. In response to this, Ellis employed a new composite matrix procedure to generate a single set of predicted one-step transition probabilities. This essay argues that this procedure (1) does not generate one-step probab…
Construct Individuality, Cognitive Complexity, and the Formation and Remembering of Interpersonal Impressions
Subjects differing in cognitive complexity formed impressions from either (1) three positive and three negative experimenter-selected traits, (2) three traits of each evaluation generated by the subject in a preliminary session, or (3) three experimenter-selected traits of one valence and three subject-generated traits of the opposite valence. Additionally, subjects reconstructed their impressions from memory after eight weeks. Impressions were d…
Construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity as predictors of the number and strategic adaptation of arguments and appeals in a persuasive message
Subjects differing in construct comprehensiveness and cognitive complexity wrote persuasive messages directed at a fictitious target person and gave written justifications for each argument or appeal used in their messages. Messages were scored for number of appeals used and appeal justifications were scored for the degree of strategic adaptation to the message target they reflected. Construct comprehensiveness correlated positively and significa…
"Nonstationary Data Should Not Be "Corrected
Ellis (1979), in his study of interaction patterns in groups, discovered that his data did not satisfy the assumptions of a simple Markov model. In particular, he found that his data failed to satisfy the assumption of stationarity. In response to this, Ellis employed a new composite matrix procedure to generate a single set of predicted one-step transition probabilities. This essay argues that this procedure (1) does not generate one-step probab…
The pursuit of multiple objectives in face‐to‐face persuasive interactions: Effects of construct differentiation on message organization
This is paper describes the development of a system for analyzing the management of multiple communicative goals in interpersonal arguments. The message analysis system was designed to classify conversationally produced messages in terms of (1) the communicative role of the message producer; (2) the position taken toward the issue on the floor; (3) the explicitness with which conflict is acknowledged; and (4) the manner in which the subsidiary co…
Message Design Logic and Message Goal Structure Effects on Perceptions of Message Quality in Regulative Communication Situations
O'Keefe has suggested that variations in the goal sets individuals choose to pursue and the form of reasoning they employ are sources of variation in message designs. She offered an analysis of the specific consequences of differences in goals (“message goal structure”) and in forms of reasoning (“message design logics”), and shouted how this analysis could be used to describe systematically functional variations in regulative messages. The study…
The logic of message design: Individual differences in reasoning about communication
It is hypothesized that there are systematic individual differences in the premises used to generate messages through ends to means reasoning. Reliance on these alternative sets of premises and beliefs—referred to as “message design logics"—can be detected in several different features of message design, including the kind of project undertaken in the message, the kinds of elements that appear in the message, the principles of coherence that conn…
Rethinking Communication: Vol. 2: Paradigm Exemplars
Sense and Sensitivity
Journal Article Sense and Sensitivity Get access Barbara J. O'Keefe Barbara J. O'Keefe 1Barbara J. O'Keefe is associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 42, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 123–130, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00784.x Published: 07 February 2006
Developing and Testing Rational Models of Message Design
Against Theory
Journal Article Against Theory Get access Barbara O'Keefe Barbara O'Keefe 1Barbara O'Keefe is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 75–82, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01278.x Published: 07 February 2006
Refusals and Rejections Designing Messages to Serve Multiple Goals
This experiment was conducted to test a rational model of the elaboration of themes found in rejection messages. The experiment involved a situation in which a candidate for membership in an organization must be rejected by an agent of the organization. The model proposed that five themes would be found in the rejection messages, elaborated selectively as a function of the relationship between organizational agent and candidate (friend vs. strang…
Managing the Flow of Ideas: A Local Management Approach to Message Design
This chapter develops the case for a local management model of message design. In contrast to other current approaches, in which message structure is understood in terms of holistic-functional categories, a local management approach separates the analysis of message structure and message function. Message structure is understood as patterns of expressed thoughts. Message function is understood in terms of context-sensitive mappings between antece…
Charles Arthur Willard (1945–2021): In Memoriam
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