Daniel J Canary
Biographic Data
| ID | 80927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel J Canary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Canary |
| SIGNATURE | CANARY D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 705 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Effects of Mood on Conversational Argument Acts and Sequences: A Minimally Rational Perspective
Researching Interactive Communication Behavior: A Sourcebook of Methods and Measures
The roles of culture and fairness in maintaining relationships: A comparison of romantic partners from Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States
On babies, bathwater, and absolute claims: Reply to Stafford
Conversational Argument in Close Relationships: A Case for Studying Argument Sequences
This article examines how people develop their ideas with each other through the use of argument sequences. First, we discuss the argumentative function of communication in close relationships. Second, we articulate the theoretic cornerstones of our research program. Here we present the basic premises of the theory of Minimally Rational Argument, which identifies conversational argument as a process of developing a definition of the relationship …
Mediators' Facilitative Versus Controlling Argument Strategies and Tactics: A Qualitative Analysis Using the Conversational Argument Coding System
This study examined how utilization of the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme (CACS) demonstrates mediators' use of argument behavior to facilitate or control the manner in which mediation parties argued their positions. Data were collected from a community mediation program located in the southwestern United States. Forty mediation sessions, each having a single mediator, were videotaped and transcribed. Results revealed eight mediator argume…
Origins and Development of the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme
This article discusses the conceptual and methodological origins of the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme (CACS). The article first reviews the impulse for development of this content analysis scheme as part of structuration theory work in communication during the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially within the structuration approach to argument in group deliberations. We also position those conceptual efforts in the context of other schola…
Epilogue: Continued Uses of the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme
Cultural Differences in Equity Theory Predictions of Relational Maintenance Strategies
This study examined whether the theoretic role of equity in predicting relational maintenance strategies is modified by participant country and culture. Research on equity theory in relationships has been conducted primarily in the United States and Western Europe. We argue that equity theory predictions regarding relational communication probably change according to the countries and values under consideration. People from six countries self-rep…
Assessments of disclosure from the in-laws: Links among disclosure topics, family privacy orientations, and relational quality
This study investigated newlyweds' perceptions of private disclosures received from their in-laws and the outcomes of such disclosures for their familial relationships. In Study 1, 271 married individuals participated in a study designed to develop scales measuring relevant variables. Participants in Study 2 were 107 recently married individuals who completed online questionnaires. Results indicated that in-laws' disclosure regarding acceptance o…
People Want—and Maintain—Fair Marriages: Reply to Ragsdale and Brandau—Brown
Following three studies that criticized our research on the link between equity and relational maintenance strategies (Ragsdale, 1996; Ragsdale & Brandau-Brown, 2004, 2005), we (2006) submitted an
People Want?and Maintain?Fair Marriages: Reply to Ragsdale and Brandau?Brown
Targeted Neighborhood Sampling: A New Approach for Recruiting Abusive Couples
Equity and Interdependence as Predictors of Relational Maintenance Strategies
This article continues a research program on relational maintenance strategies used in marriage. In particular, we explore how equity and satisfaction, defined in terms of interdependence theory, individually and jointly are predictive of self-reported maintenance strategies. The rationale for the study is based on previous programmatic efforts, as well as a critique of these efforts. Over 200 married couples completed measures of equity, satisfa…
Actor goal achievement and sensitivity to partner as critical factors in understanding interpersonal communication competence and conflict strategies
Communication scholars have long argued that achieving one's personal goals with others constitutes an important element of interpersonal communication competence. Moreover, sensitivity to the partner's goals has been implicated in various lines of research related to competence. Despite the presumed status of goal achievement and sensitivity to the partner's goals, models do not develop the relationships between these constructs and how actors a…
A Panel Study of the Associations Between Maintenance Strategies and Relational Characteristics
Resilience in marriage is tied to the manner in which people strategically maintain their relationships. The associations between perceptions of five relational maintenance strategies (positivity, openness, assurances, social networks, and sharing tasks) and three fundamental relationship characteristics (liking, commitment, and control mutuality) are examined concurrently and over time. At three points in time, each separated by a month, married…
Current Research Programs on Relational Maintenance Behaviors
This chapter addresses how communication theoretically functions to maintain personal relationships. In particular, four sustained lines of research are reviewed that specify how communication helps to maintain ongoing heterosexual, romantic involvements. A synthesis of the research programs leads the authors to believe that communication can operate as an independent, mediating, or dependent factor. In other words, the chapter highlights some sp…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Relationship Conflict
Motives to Remain Platonic, Equity, and the Use of Maintenance Strategies in Opposite-Sex Friendships
This study examined maintenance strategies used by hetero-sexual participants in opposite-sex friendships. Individual reasons for adhering to a platonic relational definition and equity were used to predict maintenance behaviors. Factor analyses revealed six reasons for maintaining opposite-sex friendships as platonic: Not Attracted, Network Disapproval, Time Out, Safeguard Relationship, Third Party, and Risk Aversion. Relying on equity theory, w…
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication: Critical Essays and Empirical Investigations of Sex and Gender in Interaction
Prologue - Recurring Issues in Differences and Similarities in Communication, D.J. Canary and K. Dindia What's the Difference? Dialogue About Differences and Similarities Between Women and Men, J.T. Wood and K. Dindia Toward an Expanded Orientation to the Study of Differences in Friendship, P.H. Wright Differences in Interaction - a Reexamination, E. Aries Researching Differences Within Similarities - the Evolutionary Consequences of Reproductive…
Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
Relationship Conflict
Toward a theory of minimally rational argument: Analyses of episode‐specific effects of argument structures
Whereas the investigation of argument in public discourse has long held prominent status in the field of communication, research on argument in interpersonal settings has only recently emerged. This article concerns how argument structures (i.e., simple, complex, jointly enacted, and eroded) are related to perceptions of communicator competence, communication satisfaction, and attraction. Our theoretic assumptions portray argument as convergence‐…
Maintenance Strategies and Romantic Relationship Type, Gender and Relational Characteristics
This study examines the manner in which perceptions of relational maintenance strategies used in romantic dyads vary according to relationship type (married, engaged, seriously dating and dating) and gender. Additionally, this study investigates how perceptions of partners' maintenance behaviors differentially affect the relational characteristics of control mutuality, commitment, liking and satisfaction. Research assumptions were cast within a d…
Relational maintenance strategies and equity in marriage
Utilizing equity theory, this study extends previous research on maintenance strategies. The manner in which relational maintenance strategies are reported and perceived is examined. It was hypothesized that maintenance strategies are used more in equitable relationships than in relationships characterized by underbenefitedness. Further, the use of maintenance efforts by individuals in overbenefited relationships was explored. In addition, this s…
Appropriateness and Effectiveness Perceptions of Conflict Strategies
This study investigates how conflict strategies and communicator gender affect two properties of communicative competence, appropriateness and effectiveness, and how these properties are associated with interpersonal attraction. In total, 361 participants read one of 12 randomly distributed conflict scripts that operationalized one of three conflict strategies (i.e., integrative, distributive, or avoidance), communicator gender, and episode type …
Definitions and Theoretical Perspectives on Maintaining Relationships
Relational and Episodic Characteristics Associated with Conflict Tactics
This study sought to discover how select episodic and relational variables are functionally related to communication tactics in situations of interpersonal conflict. More precisely, this study examined how communication satisfaction and perceived communication competence of partner might mediate the link between partner's conflict messages and developing relationship features. Partner's use of integrative tactics produced communication satisfacti…
Assessments of disclosure from the in-laws: Links among disclosure topics, family privacy orientations, and relational quality
This study investigated newlyweds' perceptions of private disclosures received from their in-laws and the outcomes of such disclosures for their familial relationships. In Study 1, 271 married individuals participated in a study designed to develop scales measuring relevant variables. Participants in Study 2 were 107 recently married individuals who completed online questionnaires. Results indicated that in-laws' disclosure regarding acceptance o…
A Model of the Perceived Competence of Conflict Strategies
This study examines how strategic communication is linked to specific relational features. We hypothesize that perceptions of a communicator's competence mediate the effects of conflict strategies on the relational outcomes measured by trust, control mutuality, intimacy, and satisfaction. The components of competence were specific and general appropriateness, effectiveness, and global competence; these were included in LISREL analyses to investig…
Motives to Remain Platonic, Equity, and the Use of Maintenance Strategies in Opposite-Sex Friendships
This study examined maintenance strategies used by hetero-sexual participants in opposite-sex friendships. Individual reasons for adhering to a platonic relational definition and equity were used to predict maintenance behaviors. Factor analyses revealed six reasons for maintaining opposite-sex friendships as platonic: Not Attracted, Network Disapproval, Time Out, Safeguard Relationship, Third Party, and Risk Aversion. Relying on equity theory, w…
A Panel Study of the Associations Between Maintenance Strategies and Relational Characteristics
Resilience in marriage is tied to the manner in which people strategically maintain their relationships. The associations between perceptions of five relational maintenance strategies (positivity, openness, assurances, social networks, and sharing tasks) and three fundamental relationship characteristics (liking, commitment, and control mutuality) are examined concurrently and over time. At three points in time, each separated by a month, married…
Loneliness and Relationally Competent Communication
Loneliness is seen as a common social experience, best understood through the mechanisms whereby actors attribute causes for their loneliness. From an attributional perspective, the effects of loneliness chronicity on relational, or communicative, competence are delineated in three hypotheses and empirically tested among dyads involved in a conversational exercise. The hypotheses are generally supported, revealing that chronically lonely people g…
Equity and Interdependence as Predictors of Relational Maintenance Strategies
This article continues a research program on relational maintenance strategies used in marriage. In particular, we explore how equity and satisfaction, defined in terms of interdependence theory, individually and jointly are predictive of self-reported maintenance strategies. The rationale for the study is based on previous programmatic efforts, as well as a critique of these efforts. Over 200 married couples completed measures of equity, satisfa…
Actor goal achievement and sensitivity to partner as critical factors in understanding interpersonal communication competence and conflict strategies
Communication scholars have long argued that achieving one's personal goals with others constitutes an important element of interpersonal communication competence. Moreover, sensitivity to the partner's goals has been implicated in various lines of research related to competence. Despite the presumed status of goal achievement and sensitivity to the partner's goals, models do not develop the relationships between these constructs and how actors a…
Toward a theory of minimally rational argument: Analyses of episode‐specific effects of argument structures
Whereas the investigation of argument in public discourse has long held prominent status in the field of communication, research on argument in interpersonal settings has only recently emerged. This article concerns how argument structures (i.e., simple, complex, jointly enacted, and eroded) are related to perceptions of communicator competence, communication satisfaction, and attraction. Our theoretic assumptions portray argument as convergence‐…
Attribution biases and associations between conflict strategies and competence outcomes
This study investigates the extent to which actor‐partner points of view influence the outcomes of conflict messages on perceptions of communicator appropriateness, effectiveness, and global competence. Actors perceived themselves as more competent and appropriate than partners judged them. Correlation analyses revealed that actor‐partner perceptual associations generally were strongest for distributive behaviors (i.e., anger, criticism, sarcasm)…
Cultural Differences in Equity Theory Predictions of Relational Maintenance Strategies
This study examined whether the theoretic role of equity in predicting relational maintenance strategies is modified by participant country and culture. Research on equity theory in relationships has been conducted primarily in the United States and Western Europe. We argue that equity theory predictions regarding relational communication probably change according to the countries and values under consideration. People from six countries self-rep…
People Want—and Maintain—Fair Marriages: Reply to Ragsdale and Brandau—Brown
Following three studies that criticized our research on the link between equity and relational maintenance strategies (Ragsdale, 1996; Ragsdale & Brandau-Brown, 2004, 2005), we (2006) submitted an
Current Research Programs on Relational Maintenance Behaviors
This chapter addresses how communication theoretically functions to maintain personal relationships. In particular, four sustained lines of research are reviewed that specify how communication helps to maintain ongoing heterosexual, romantic involvements. A synthesis of the research programs leads the authors to believe that communication can operate as an independent, mediating, or dependent factor. In other words, the chapter highlights some sp…
Origins and Development of the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme
This article discusses the conceptual and methodological origins of the Conversational Argument Coding Scheme (CACS). The article first reviews the impulse for development of this content analysis scheme as part of structuration theory work in communication during the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially within the structuration approach to argument in group deliberations. We also position those conceptual efforts in the context of other schola…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Relationship Conflict
Goal Types, Compliance-Gaining and Locus of Control
This study argues that situations can be conceptualised according to actors' prototypes (Cantor & Mischel, 1979a, b) for obtaining goals. In addition, these goals are constructed from salient dimensions of perceptions found in previous literature on compliance-gaining. Fourteen goal types were selected and used in a study concerning perceptions of influence situations and expected use of influence approaches. Perceptions and influence strategies …
The roles of culture and fairness in maintaining relationships: A comparison of romantic partners from Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States
On babies, bathwater, and absolute claims: Reply to Stafford
People Want?and Maintain?Fair Marriages: Reply to Ragsdale and Brandau?Brown
Loneliness and Relationally Competent Communication
Loneliness is seen as a common social experience, best understood through the mechanisms whereby actors attribute causes for their loneliness. From an attributional perspective, the effects of loneliness chronicity on relational, or communicative, competence are delineated in three hypotheses and empirically tested among dyads involved in a conversational exercise. The hypotheses are generally supported, revealing that chronically lonely people g…
Goal Types, Compliance-Gaining and Locus of Control
This study argues that situations can be conceptualised according to actors' prototypes (Cantor & Mischel, 1979a, b) for obtaining goals. In addition, these goals are constructed from salient dimensions of perceptions found in previous literature on compliance-gaining. Fourteen goal types were selected and used in a study concerning perceptions of influence situations and expected use of influence approaches. Perceptions and influence strategies …
Situation Perception: Interactions Between Competence and Messages
Appropriateness and Effectiveness Perceptions of Conflict Strategies
This study investigates how conflict strategies and communicator gender affect two properties of communicative competence, appropriateness and effectiveness, and how these properties are associated with interpersonal attraction. In total, 361 participants read one of 12 randomly distributed conflict scripts that operationalized one of three conflict strategies (i.e., integrative, distributive, or avoidance), communicator gender, and episode type …
Relational and Episodic Characteristics Associated with Conflict Tactics
This study sought to discover how select episodic and relational variables are functionally related to communication tactics in situations of interpersonal conflict. More precisely, this study examined how communication satisfaction and perceived communication competence of partner might mediate the link between partner's conflict messages and developing relationship features. Partner's use of integrative tactics produced communication satisfacti…
A Model of the Perceived Competence of Conflict Strategies
This study examines how strategic communication is linked to specific relational features. We hypothesize that perceptions of a communicator's competence mediate the effects of conflict strategies on the relational outcomes measured by trust, control mutuality, intimacy, and satisfaction. The components of competence were specific and general appropriateness, effectiveness, and global competence; these were included in LISREL analyses to investig…
Attribution biases and associations between conflict strategies and competence outcomes
This study investigates the extent to which actor‐partner points of view influence the outcomes of conflict messages on perceptions of communicator appropriateness, effectiveness, and global competence. Actors perceived themselves as more competent and appropriate than partners judged them. Correlation analyses revealed that actor‐partner perceptual associations generally were strongest for distributive behaviors (i.e., anger, criticism, sarcasm)…
Maintenance Strategies and Romantic Relationship Type, Gender and Relational Characteristics
This study examines the manner in which perceptions of relational maintenance strategies used in romantic dyads vary according to relationship type (married, engaged, seriously dating and dating) and gender. Additionally, this study investigates how perceptions of partners' maintenance behaviors differentially affect the relational characteristics of control mutuality, commitment, liking and satisfaction. Research assumptions were cast within a d…
Relational maintenance strategies and equity in marriage
Utilizing equity theory, this study extends previous research on maintenance strategies. The manner in which relational maintenance strategies are reported and perceived is examined. It was hypothesized that maintenance strategies are used more in equitable relationships than in relationships characterized by underbenefitedness. Further, the use of maintenance efforts by individuals in overbenefited relationships was explored. In addition, this s…
An inductive analysis of relational maintenance strategies: Comparisons among lovers, relatives, friends, and others
This investigation reports a typology of maintenance behaviors that were derived through inductive analyses of papers students wrote about their strategies for maintaining various relationships. Ten major strategies were inductively derived: positivity; openness; assurances; sharing tasks; social networks; joint activities; cards/letters/calls; avoidance; anti‐social; and humor. These strategies extend the previous research on relational maintena…
Is there any reason to research sex differences in communication?
Research presents an inconsistent picture of sex differences in communication. In order to clarify how sex differences are related to communication, empirical findings and conceptual problems are analyzed. Results from meta‐analyses suggest we should expect small differences due to sex and that these differences are moderated by a number of factors. Studies that directly compare the effects due to sex and those due to interaction show that sex ef…
Definitions and Theoretical Perspectives on Maintaining Relationships
Toward a theory of minimally rational argument: Analyses of episode‐specific effects of argument structures
Whereas the investigation of argument in public discourse has long held prominent status in the field of communication, research on argument in interpersonal settings has only recently emerged. This article concerns how argument structures (i.e., simple, complex, jointly enacted, and eroded) are related to perceptions of communicator competence, communication satisfaction, and attraction. Our theoretic assumptions portray argument as convergence‐…
Relationship Conflict
Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
Sex and Gender Differences in Personal Relationships
Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication: Critical Essays and Empirical Investigations of Sex and Gender in Interaction
Prologue - Recurring Issues in Differences and Similarities in Communication, D.J. Canary and K. Dindia What's the Difference? Dialogue About Differences and Similarities Between Women and Men, J.T. Wood and K. Dindia Toward an Expanded Orientation to the Study of Differences in Friendship, P.H. Wright Differences in Interaction - a Reexamination, E. Aries Researching Differences Within Similarities - the Evolutionary Consequences of Reproductive…
Current Research Programs on Relational Maintenance Behaviors
This chapter addresses how communication theoretically functions to maintain personal relationships. In particular, four sustained lines of research are reviewed that specify how communication helps to maintain ongoing heterosexual, romantic involvements. A synthesis of the research programs leads the authors to believe that communication can operate as an independent, mediating, or dependent factor. In other words, the chapter highlights some sp…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Relationship Conflict
Motives to Remain Platonic, Equity, and the Use of Maintenance Strategies in Opposite-Sex Friendships
This study examined maintenance strategies used by hetero-sexual participants in opposite-sex friendships. Individual reasons for adhering to a platonic relational definition and equity were used to predict maintenance behaviors. Factor analyses revealed six reasons for maintaining opposite-sex friendships as platonic: Not Attracted, Network Disapproval, Time Out, Safeguard Relationship, Third Party, and Risk Aversion. Relying on equity theory, w…
Actor goal achievement and sensitivity to partner as critical factors in understanding interpersonal communication competence and conflict strategies
Communication scholars have long argued that achieving one's personal goals with others constitutes an important element of interpersonal communication competence. Moreover, sensitivity to the partner's goals has been implicated in various lines of research related to competence. Despite the presumed status of goal achievement and sensitivity to the partner's goals, models do not develop the relationships between these constructs and how actors a…
A Panel Study of the Associations Between Maintenance Strategies and Relational Characteristics
Resilience in marriage is tied to the manner in which people strategically maintain their relationships. The associations between perceptions of five relational maintenance strategies (positivity, openness, assurances, social networks, and sharing tasks) and three fundamental relationship characteristics (liking, commitment, and control mutuality) are examined concurrently and over time. At three points in time, each separated by a month, married…
Equity and Interdependence as Predictors of Relational Maintenance Strategies
This article continues a research program on relational maintenance strategies used in marriage. In particular, we explore how equity and satisfaction, defined in terms of interdependence theory, individually and jointly are predictive of self-reported maintenance strategies. The rationale for the study is based on previous programmatic efforts, as well as a critique of these efforts. Over 200 married couples completed measures of equity, satisfa…
People Want—and Maintain—Fair Marriages: Reply to Ragsdale and Brandau—Brown
Following three studies that criticized our research on the link between equity and relational maintenance strategies (Ragsdale, 1996; Ragsdale & Brandau-Brown, 2004, 2005), we (2006) submitted an
Psychology (33 works) · Social Psychology (30 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (20 works) · Perception (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Conflict Management and Negotiation (10 works) · Competence (human resources (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)