John A Courtright
Biographic Data
| ID | 649899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Courtright |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Courtright |
| SIGNATURE | COURTRIGHT J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Normative Images of Communication Media Mass and Interpersonal Channels in the New Media Environment
Journal Article Normative Images of Communication Media: Mass and Interpersonal Channels in the New Media Environment Get access Elizabeth M. Perse, Elizabeth M. Perse 1Elizabeth M. Perse is an Associate Professor and John A. Court right is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John A. Courtright John A. Courtright 1Elizabeth M. Perse i…
Message Control Intensity as a Predictor of Transactional Redundancy
This paper explores the relationship between message control intensity and transactional redundancy. Message intensity was previously introduced in an effort to expand the Rogers-Farace relational communication coding system, and is based on the implicit intensity continuum that underlies that coding scheme. The transactional redundancy measure refers to and reflects the degree of randomness contained within a dyad's communicative behaviors. The …
Message control intensity
This paper expands on the Rogers and Farace relational communication coding system by offering a definition and measure of message control intensity. The measure is based on the implicit intensity continuum which underlies the coding scheme. As a construct, message control intensity meets the face validity criterion for the "experienced" perspective on communication behavior as described by Poole and Folger. Results from exploratory correlational…
The Acquisition of Sexual Information by Young People
Examines the impact of the mass media on the sexual expectations and satisfactions of young people in the U.S. Potential of peers and mass as powerful agents in the acquisition of sexual information of young people; Role of media in the socialization of the young person; Contribution of experience in the information acquisition process
Relational Control and Dyadic Understanding
This paper attempts to explore the effects of domineeringness and dominance on spouses' ability to accurately predict each others' responses. Domineeringness and dominance are considered to be aspects of the dyad's relational communication structure and the accuracy of prediction is conceived of as an index of understanding. A modified stepwise regression procedure was used to derive the predictive models that accounted for 46% and 26% of the var…
Domineeringness and dominance
This paper continues the effort to define a dyadic system's relational structure on the basis of communicative behaviors. Domineeringness, an individual measure based on one‐up messages, and dominance, a joint measure based on the dyad's transactional patterns, are the central variables of concern. The findings offer additional support for the conceptual distinction between domineeringness and dominance. Further, these major variables are associa…
Three Language Variables in Communication Research
Journal Article Three Language Variables in Communication Research: Intensity, Immediacy, and Diversity Get access James J. Bradac, James J. Bradac 1University of Iowa University of Iowa 3James J. Bradac (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1970) is associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. John Waite Bowers (Ph.D., Iowa, 1962) is professor and chairman of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. John A. Courtright (Ph.D., …
A laboratory investigation of groupthink
A recent addition to the collection of theory on group communication is the concept of “groupthink,” formulated by Irving Janis. The purpose of this study was to examine the groupthink phenomenon under controlled, laboratory conditions. Because the original formulation was based on historical case studies of foreign‐policy decisions, a laboratory analogue which recreated the important elements of the theory was constructed. The results of this st…
Richness of Vocabulary
Five experiments demonstrated a positive relationship between a speaker's lexical diversity level and listeners' judgments of his socioeconomic status, competence, emotional state, and communication effectiveness. Two other language variables, lexical density and syntactic diversity, did not yield such relationships. Level of lexical diversity did not consistently affect listeners' attitudes toward neutral concepts described by speakers, nor did …
The Role of Prior Message Context in Evaluative Judgments of High- and Low-Diversity Messages
Two studies are reported. The first explored the possibility of contrast effects in judgments of messages exhibiting high or low lexical and syntactic diversity. Listeners heard an initial message and then a subsequent message which differed in diversity level. Results indicated that contrast effects were obtained, though these effects were facilitated or inhibited by other aspects of message quality. In light of a previous negative result, the s…
Rhetoric of the Gun
Three Language Variables in Communication Research
Journal Article Three Language Variables in Communication Research: Intensity, Immediacy, and Diversity Get access James J. Bradac, James J. Bradac 1University of Iowa University of Iowa 3James J. Bradac (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1970) is associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. John Waite Bowers (Ph.D., Iowa, 1962) is professor and chairman of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. John A. Courtright (Ph.D., …
Normative Images of Communication Media Mass and Interpersonal Channels in the New Media Environment
Journal Article Normative Images of Communication Media: Mass and Interpersonal Channels in the New Media Environment Get access Elizabeth M. Perse, Elizabeth M. Perse 1Elizabeth M. Perse is an Associate Professor and John A. Court right is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John A. Courtright John A. Courtright 1Elizabeth M. Perse i…
Domineeringness and dominance
This paper continues the effort to define a dyadic system's relational structure on the basis of communicative behaviors. Domineeringness, an individual measure based on one‐up messages, and dominance, a joint measure based on the dyad's transactional patterns, are the central variables of concern. The findings offer additional support for the conceptual distinction between domineeringness and dominance. Further, these major variables are associa…
A laboratory investigation of groupthink
A recent addition to the collection of theory on group communication is the concept of “groupthink,” formulated by Irving Janis. The purpose of this study was to examine the groupthink phenomenon under controlled, laboratory conditions. Because the original formulation was based on historical case studies of foreign‐policy decisions, a laboratory analogue which recreated the important elements of the theory was constructed. The results of this st…
Message control intensity
This paper expands on the Rogers and Farace relational communication coding system by offering a definition and measure of message control intensity. The measure is based on the implicit intensity continuum which underlies the coding scheme. As a construct, message control intensity meets the face validity criterion for the "experienced" perspective on communication behavior as described by Poole and Folger. Results from exploratory correlational…
The Acquisition of Sexual Information by Young People
Examines the impact of the mass media on the sexual expectations and satisfactions of young people in the U.S. Potential of peers and mass as powerful agents in the acquisition of sexual information of young people; Role of media in the socialization of the young person; Contribution of experience in the information acquisition process
The Role of Prior Message Context in Evaluative Judgments of High- and Low-Diversity Messages
Two studies are reported. The first explored the possibility of contrast effects in judgments of messages exhibiting high or low lexical and syntactic diversity. Listeners heard an initial message and then a subsequent message which differed in diversity level. Results indicated that contrast effects were obtained, though these effects were facilitated or inhibited by other aspects of message quality. In light of a previous negative result, the s…
Relational Control and Dyadic Understanding
This paper attempts to explore the effects of domineeringness and dominance on spouses' ability to accurately predict each others' responses. Domineeringness and dominance are considered to be aspects of the dyad's relational communication structure and the accuracy of prediction is conceived of as an index of understanding. A modified stepwise regression procedure was used to derive the predictive models that accounted for 46% and 26% of the var…
Rhetoric of the Gun
Richness of Vocabulary
Five experiments demonstrated a positive relationship between a speaker's lexical diversity level and listeners' judgments of his socioeconomic status, competence, emotional state, and communication effectiveness. Two other language variables, lexical density and syntactic diversity, did not yield such relationships. Level of lexical diversity did not consistently affect listeners' attitudes toward neutral concepts described by speakers, nor did …
The Role of Prior Message Context in Evaluative Judgments of High- and Low-Diversity Messages
Two studies are reported. The first explored the possibility of contrast effects in judgments of messages exhibiting high or low lexical and syntactic diversity. Listeners heard an initial message and then a subsequent message which differed in diversity level. Results indicated that contrast effects were obtained, though these effects were facilitated or inhibited by other aspects of message quality. In light of a previous negative result, the s…
A laboratory investigation of groupthink
A recent addition to the collection of theory on group communication is the concept of “groupthink,” formulated by Irving Janis. The purpose of this study was to examine the groupthink phenomenon under controlled, laboratory conditions. Because the original formulation was based on historical case studies of foreign‐policy decisions, a laboratory analogue which recreated the important elements of the theory was constructed. The results of this st…
Relational Control and Dyadic Understanding
This paper attempts to explore the effects of domineeringness and dominance on spouses' ability to accurately predict each others' responses. Domineeringness and dominance are considered to be aspects of the dyad's relational communication structure and the accuracy of prediction is conceived of as an index of understanding. A modified stepwise regression procedure was used to derive the predictive models that accounted for 46% and 26% of the var…
Domineeringness and dominance
This paper continues the effort to define a dyadic system's relational structure on the basis of communicative behaviors. Domineeringness, an individual measure based on one‐up messages, and dominance, a joint measure based on the dyad's transactional patterns, are the central variables of concern. The findings offer additional support for the conceptual distinction between domineeringness and dominance. Further, these major variables are associa…
Three Language Variables in Communication Research
Journal Article Three Language Variables in Communication Research: Intensity, Immediacy, and Diversity Get access James J. Bradac, James J. Bradac 1University of Iowa University of Iowa 3James J. Bradac (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1970) is associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. John Waite Bowers (Ph.D., Iowa, 1962) is professor and chairman of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. John A. Courtright (Ph.D., …
Message Control Intensity as a Predictor of Transactional Redundancy
This paper explores the relationship between message control intensity and transactional redundancy. Message intensity was previously introduced in an effort to expand the Rogers-Farace relational communication coding system, and is based on the implicit intensity continuum that underlies that coding scheme. The transactional redundancy measure refers to and reflects the degree of randomness contained within a dyad's communicative behaviors. The …
Message control intensity
This paper expands on the Rogers and Farace relational communication coding system by offering a definition and measure of message control intensity. The measure is based on the implicit intensity continuum which underlies the coding scheme. As a construct, message control intensity meets the face validity criterion for the "experienced" perspective on communication behavior as described by Poole and Folger. Results from exploratory correlational…
The Acquisition of Sexual Information by Young People
Examines the impact of the mass media on the sexual expectations and satisfactions of young people in the U.S. Potential of peers and mass as powerful agents in the acquisition of sexual information of young people; Role of media in the socialization of the young person; Contribution of experience in the information acquisition process
Normative Images of Communication Media Mass and Interpersonal Channels in the New Media Environment
Journal Article Normative Images of Communication Media: Mass and Interpersonal Channels in the New Media Environment Get access Elizabeth M. Perse, Elizabeth M. Perse 1Elizabeth M. Perse is an Associate Professor and John A. Court right is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John A. Courtright John A. Courtright 1Elizabeth M. Perse i…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Diversity (politics (3 works) · Interpersonal communication (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)