Brant R Burleson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 648967 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brant R Burleson |
| PRENOMES | Brant R |
| SOBRENOME | Burleson |
| ASSINATURA | BURLESON B R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 782 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 17 |
Explaining the Relationships among Supportive Message Quality, Evaluations, and Outcomes
Research on supportive communication has been concerned with two primary classes of dependent variables. Message evaluations refer to judgments about the supportive message and/or the sender of that message, and message outcomes refer to cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of messages. Most studies have utilized variables from one or the other class with less attention paid to the association between evaluations and outcomes. Indeed, the…
Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Emotional Upset on Processing Supportive Messages
We report tests of hypotheses derived from a theory of supportive communication outcomes that maintains the effects of supportive messages are moderated by factors influencing the motivation and ability to process these messages. Participants in two studies completed a measure of cognitive complexity, which provided an assessment of processing ability, and reported their degree of upset with a problem situation, which was hypothesized to impact b…
Explaining Recipient Responses to Supportive Messages
Avoidance May Be Bad for the Heart
The psychophysiologic model of marital distress proposes that demand/withdraw dyadic communication activates cardiovascular reactivity in the withdrawing partner, which eventually leads to cardiac illness. Thirty-one patients (23 men and 8 women) in a cardiac rehabilitation program were matched to community controls. Participants completed the Initiator Style Questionnaire, a measure of a person's tendency to initiate relationship problem discuss…
Cultural Similarities and Differences in Seeking Social Support as a Means of Coping
Two studies examined similarities and differences in how European Americans and Chinese view seeking social support as a strategy for coping with an upset. Participants (407 European Americans and 595 Chinese) completed instruments assessing the appropriateness of seeking social support and several self-reliant coping strategies (problem-solving, emotion management, avoidance) when confronting upsets. Both studies detected cultural and sex differ…
Explaining Gender Differences in Responses to Supportive Messages
Understanding the outcomes of supportive communication
Numerous factors affect the outcomes of supportive interactions, including aspects of the supportive message, the helper, the interaction context, and the recipient. This article proposes that the direct and interactive effects of these factors can be explained through a dual-process theory of supportive communication outcomes, which provides a comprehensive, integrative treatment of when and why collections of variables in supportive interaction…
Explaining Variations in the Effects of Supportive Messages A Dual-Process Framework
Although some recipients benefit from exposure to sophisticated and sensitive support messages, the effects of these messages are moderated (sometimes substantially) by characteristics of the recipient, the helper, and the situation. Thus, enhancing the success of helpers who provide support requires a comprehensive explanation of why support messages are effective in some circumstances but less effective in others. To understand why supportive m…
Bereaved Adults' Evaluations of Grief Management Messages
This study identifies grief management strategies that bereaved adults evaluate as more and less helpful, assesses whether the person centeredness of these strategies explains their helpfulness, and determines whether strategy helpfulness varies as a function of demographic, personality, and situational factors. Participants (105 bereaved young adults) assessed the helpfulness of 16 grief management strategies; these strategies were coded for the…
The Initiator Style Questionnaire
The tendency of partners in a dyad to initiate or avoid relationship problem discussions has proven to have both theoretical and clinical significance. This tendency is conceptualized here as initiator tendency, which is defined as the propensity to initiate relationship‐focused discussions with one’s partner or avoid such discussions. The current paper reports 3 studies summarizing the development of a measure to assess initiator tendency: the I…
Bereaved adolescents' evaluations of the helpfulness of support-intended statements
Currently, there is a lack of reliable methods for assessing how bereaved adolescents perceive the informal support they receive. This study provides methodological refinements in, and a theoretical grounding for, a recently developed measure designed to distinguish support efforts that bereaved adolescents find helpful versus harmful. Participants (114 bereaved adolescents) completed the Support Intended Statement Survey (SISS), which assessed t…
A Fluency of Feeling
The present study presents a multilevel analysis of cultural level and individual level differences in the evaluation of emotional support message strategies and interactive support goals. This is done in an effort to distinguish cultural norms regarding social support (i.e., recognizing what counts as an effective message) from a sense of cultural efficacy in social support (i.e., the motivation to provide effective support) and furthermore, to …
Guys Can't Say That to Guys”
Men are less likely than women to provide sensitive emotional support when attempting to comfort others. This paper reports four experiments that tested a normative motivation account for this sex difference, which maintains that men employ less sensitive messages because they desire to avoid acting in what they view as a feminine manner. We propose that target sex and gender schematicity influence the perceived normativeness of comforting behavi…
Some Consequences for Helpers Who Deliver “Cold Comfort”
The Association of Experienced Spousal Support With Marital Satisfaction
(2004). The Association of Experienced Spousal Support With Marital Satisfaction: Evaluating the Moderating Effects of Sex, Ethnic Culture, and Type of Support. Journal of Family Communication: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 123-145
The Myth of Gender Cultures
The experience and effects of emotional support
Theorists claim that emotional support is one of the most significant provisions of close relationships, and studies suggest that the receipt of sensitive emotional support is associated with diverse indices of well–being. Research highlighting the beneficial outcomes of emotional support raises several important questions: Does emotional support play a similar role in the personal relationships of both men and women and those representing differ…
Effects of Helper and Recipient Sex on the Experience and Outcomes of Comforting Messages
Parental and Peer Contributions to the Emotional Support Skills of the Child
With advancing age, children increasingly turn to peers for emotional support, and the child's ability to provide sensitive emotional support to peers becomes an increasingly important predictor of social acceptance. Although individual differences in emotional support skills become evident in early childhood, little is known about the social experiences that lead some children to become more skillful providers of emotional support than others. T…
Effects of Sex, Culture, and Support Type on Perceptions of Spousal Social Support
Assessing Explanations for Sex Differences in Emotional Support A Test of the Different Cultures and Skill Specialization Accounts
Journal Article Assessing Explanations for Sex Differences in Emotional Support: A Test of the Different Cultures and Skill Specialization Accounts Get access Adrianne W. Kunkel, Adrianne W. Kunkel 1Adrianne W. Kunkel (M.A., Purdue University, 1994) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication, Purdue University, 1366 LAEB 2114, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1366 (Phone: 765-494-3429; FAX: 765-496-1394; e-mail: [email protected]) Search for…
Ethnicity and emotional support in same‐sex friendship
Emotional support is a central feature around which white, middle‐class adults organize their same‐sex friendships. The purpose of this study was to examine whether emotional support is accorded the same significance in the friendships of Asian‐ and African‐Americans. Participants included 199 students (60 Euro‐American men and women, 80 Asian‐American men and women, and 59 African‐American men and women) attending either a state or private unive…
The Relationship between Communication Skill and Marital Satisfaction
Brant R. Burleson, Wayne H. Denton, The Relationship between Communication Skill and Marital Satisfaction: Some Moderating Effects, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 884-902
A different voice on different cultures
Men's and Women's Evaluations of Communication Skills in Personal Relationships
Much recent research on gender and communication has emphasized differences in men's and women's communicative conduct, with some theorists going so far as to claim that men and women constitute different cultures. However, comparatively little research has assessed both similarities and differences in men and women's communication to determine whether the sexes are more alike or different. The present paper provides such assessments with respect…
Effects of Sex, Culture, and Support Type on Perceptions of Spousal Social Support
A new look at similarity and attraction in marriage
Most research on the relationship between similarity and attraction has been informed by Byrne's (1971) effectance‐arousal model. This model maintains that similarities promote attraction because the discovery of similarities, particularly attitudinal similarities, is reinforcing. The current paper offers an alternative account of the similarity/attraction relationship distinct from the effectance‐arousal model both in the similarities it views a…
The development of persuasive communication strategies in kindergarteners through twelfth‐graders
Previous research has documented age‐related developments in the differentiation and abstractness of the system of interpersonal constructs employed in perceiving persons and the relationship of such developments to qualitative changes in persuasive strategies. This study extended the analysis of the interrelations among these developments within a broad age range. In addition to other findings, the quality of persuasive strategies was demonstrat…
Assessing Explanations for Sex Differences in Emotional Support A Test of the Different Cultures and Skill Specialization Accounts
Journal Article Assessing Explanations for Sex Differences in Emotional Support: A Test of the Different Cultures and Skill Specialization Accounts Get access Adrianne W. Kunkel, Adrianne W. Kunkel 1Adrianne W. Kunkel (M.A., Purdue University, 1994) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication, Purdue University, 1366 LAEB 2114, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1366 (Phone: 765-494-3429; FAX: 765-496-1394; e-mail: [email protected]) Search for…
Understanding the outcomes of supportive communication
Numerous factors affect the outcomes of supportive interactions, including aspects of the supportive message, the helper, the interaction context, and the recipient. This article proposes that the direct and interactive effects of these factors can be explained through a dual-process theory of supportive communication outcomes, which provides a comprehensive, integrative treatment of when and why collections of variables in supportive interaction…
Men's and Women's Evaluations of Communication Skills in Personal Relationships
Much recent research on gender and communication has emphasized differences in men's and women's communicative conduct, with some theorists going so far as to claim that men and women constitute different cultures. However, comparatively little research has assessed both similarities and differences in men and women's communication to determine whether the sexes are more alike or different. The present paper provides such assessments with respect…
Item Desirability Effects in Compliance-Gaining Research Seven Studies Documenting Artifacts in the Strategy Selection Procedure
A popular method for assessing compliance-gaming behavior involves having people rate lists of preformulated message strategies for likelihood of use. This "selection procedure" has been employed much more frequently than the alternative "construction procedure," a method that requires people to generate their own message strategies. The present article argues that the selection procedure is much less sensitive than the construction procedure to …
Age, social‐cognitive development, and the use of comforting strategies
Although considerable research indicates that both functional communication skills and prosocial behaviors increase across childhood and adolescence, relatively few studies have examined developmental and individual differences in the prosocial communication skill of comforting. The present study examines relationships among age, social‐cognitive development, and comforting skill and investigates how these relationships change over the course of …
The Myth of Gender Cultures
Social Cognition, Empathic Motivation, and Adults' Comforting Strategies
Previous research has found that social-cognitive abilities are important determinants of the competence to comfort affectively distressed others in a sensitive manner. However, being competent to comfort others sensitively does not necessarily imply that this competence will be exercised; presumably, persons must also be motivated to utilize their competencies if they are to produce highly sensitive comforting strategies. This study examined the…
Consistencies in theoretical and naive evaluations of comforting messages
Assesses the extent to which naive actors' perceptions of comforting strategy correspond with the formal analysis of comforting strategy sophistication embedded in the constructivist hierarchical coding scheme. Concerns that motivate interest in how actors evaluate different comforting strategies; Methodological implications associated with the study; Background on the constructivist hierarchical coding systems
Guys Can't Say That to Guys”
Men are less likely than women to provide sensitive emotional support when attempting to comfort others. This paper reports four experiments that tested a normative motivation account for this sex difference, which maintains that men employ less sensitive messages because they desire to avoid acting in what they view as a feminine manner. We propose that target sex and gender schematicity influence the perceived normativeness of comforting behavi…
Explaining the Relationships among Supportive Message Quality, Evaluations, and Outcomes
Research on supportive communication has been concerned with two primary classes of dependent variables. Message evaluations refer to judgments about the supportive message and/or the sender of that message, and message outcomes refer to cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of messages. Most studies have utilized variables from one or the other class with less attention paid to the association between evaluations and outcomes. Indeed, the…
Some Consequences for Helpers Who Deliver “Cold Comfort”
Ethnicity and emotional support in same‐sex friendship
Emotional support is a central feature around which white, middle‐class adults organize their same‐sex friendships. The purpose of this study was to examine whether emotional support is accorded the same significance in the friendships of Asian‐ and African‐Americans. Participants included 199 students (60 Euro‐American men and women, 80 Asian‐American men and women, and 59 African‐American men and women) attending either a state or private unive…
Effects of Helper and Recipient Sex on the Experience and Outcomes of Comforting Messages
The Production of Comforting Messages
Prior empirical research has documented the existence of significant individual differences in the quality of the comforting strategies people produce: some people typically produce relatively insensitive, unresponsive comforting strategies while other people produce highly empathic and sensitive comforting strategies. This paper describes the nature and significance of comforting behaviour, discusses methods employed in the study of comforting, …
The Relationship between Communication Skill and Marital Satisfaction
Brant R. Burleson, Wayne H. Denton, The Relationship between Communication Skill and Marital Satisfaction: Some Moderating Effects, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 884-902
Is Cognitive Complexity Loquacity? A Reply to Powers, Jordan, and Street
Journal Article Is Cognitive Complexity Loquacity? A Reply to Powers, Jordan, and Street Get access Brant R. Burleson, Brant R. Burleson 1Brant R. Bitrleson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1981) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication at the State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James L. Applegate, James L. Applegate 2James L. Applegare …
Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Emotional Upset on Processing Supportive Messages
We report tests of hypotheses derived from a theory of supportive communication outcomes that maintains the effects of supportive messages are moderated by factors influencing the motivation and ability to process these messages. Participants in two studies completed a measure of cognitive complexity, which provided an assessment of processing ability, and reported their degree of upset with a problem situation, which was hypothesized to impact b…
Explaining Variations in the Effects of Supportive Messages A Dual-Process Framework
Although some recipients benefit from exposure to sophisticated and sensitive support messages, the effects of these messages are moderated (sometimes substantially) by characteristics of the recipient, the helper, and the situation. Thus, enhancing the success of helpers who provide support requires a comprehensive explanation of why support messages are effective in some circumstances but less effective in others. To understand why supportive m…
Taking communication seriously
(1992). Taking communication seriously. Communication Monographs: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 79-86
Multiple Effects of Messages with Multiple Goals Some Perceived Outcomes of Responses to Sexual Harassment
Sexual amassment of employees by organizational superiors is a significant and all too common problem in the workplace. Victims of harassment typically want to achieve a variety of instrumental, relational, and identity management goals. The present study tested the perceived effectiveness of different messages with respect to several of these goals. Messages varied systematically with respect to what O'Keefe (1988) has termed "design logic" and …
Cognitive and Motivational Influences on Spontaneous Comforting Behavior
Journal Article Cognitive and Motivational Influences on Spontaneous Comforting Behavior Get access Wendy Samter, Wendy Samter 1Wendy Samter (M.A., Purdue University) is a David Ross Fellow and a doctoral candidate in communication at Purdue University, West Layfayette, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Brant R. Burleson Brant R. Burleson 2Brant R. Burleson (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai…
The Association of Experienced Spousal Support With Marital Satisfaction
(2004). The Association of Experienced Spousal Support With Marital Satisfaction: Evaluating the Moderating Effects of Sex, Ethnic Culture, and Type of Support. Journal of Family Communication: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 123-145
The development of persuasive communication strategies in kindergarteners through twelfth‐graders
Previous research has documented age‐related developments in the differentiation and abstractness of the system of interpersonal constructs employed in perceiving persons and the relationship of such developments to qualitative changes in persuasive strategies. This study extended the analysis of the interrelations among these developments within a broad age range. In addition to other findings, the quality of persuasive strategies was demonstrat…
Habermas’ theory of communication
The theory of communication proposed by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has important implications for argumentation scholars, contemporary rhetorical theorists, and students of human interaction processes. This essay explicates and evaluates essential features of Habermas’ theory and indicates ties among Habermas’ concepts and the work of several speech communication scholars
Is Cognitive Complexity Loquacity? A Reply to Powers, Jordan, and Street
Journal Article Is Cognitive Complexity Loquacity? A Reply to Powers, Jordan, and Street Get access Brant R. Burleson, Brant R. Burleson 1Brant R. Bitrleson (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1981) is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication at the State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York 12222 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James L. Applegate, James L. Applegate 2James L. Applegare …
The Development of Comforting Communication Skills in Childhood and Adolescence
BURLESON, BRANT R. The Development of Comforting Communication Skills in Childhood and Adolescence. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1982, 53, 1578-1588. This study provides an analysis of the effects of age, sex, and communicative situations on several comforting communication skills. 12 subjects (6 males and 6 females) from each grade, 1 through 12, responded to 4 hypothetical situations in which a same-sex friend was experiencing some form of emotional dist…
The Affective Perspective-Taking Process
Social Cognition, Empathic Motivation, and Adults' Comforting Strategies
Previous research has found that social-cognitive abilities are important determinants of the competence to comfort affectively distressed others in a sensitive manner. However, being competent to comfort others sensitively does not necessarily imply that this competence will be exercised; presumably, persons must also be motivated to utilize their competencies if they are to produce highly sensitive comforting strategies. This study examined the…
Age, social‐cognitive development, and the use of comforting strategies
Although considerable research indicates that both functional communication skills and prosocial behaviors increase across childhood and adolescence, relatively few studies have examined developmental and individual differences in the prosocial communication skill of comforting. The present study examines relationships among age, social‐cognitive development, and comforting skill and investigates how these relationships change over the course of …
Cognitive and Motivational Influences on Spontaneous Comforting Behavior
Journal Article Cognitive and Motivational Influences on Spontaneous Comforting Behavior Get access Wendy Samter, Wendy Samter 1Wendy Samter (M.A., Purdue University) is a David Ross Fellow and a doctoral candidate in communication at Purdue University, West Layfayette, IN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Brant R. Burleson Brant R. Burleson 2Brant R. Burleson (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai…
Decision-Making Procedure and Decision Quality
Although communication scholars usually have assumed that social interaction is intrinsic to the process of producing good group decisions, some writers have argued that social interaction actually may harm the quality of group decisions. Consequently, several noninteractive group decision-making procedures have been proposed; among these are the staticized group procedure and the nominal group procedure. While some research suggests the effectiv…
Consistencies in theoretical and naive evaluations of comforting messages
Assesses the extent to which naive actors' perceptions of comforting strategy correspond with the formal analysis of comforting strategy sophistication embedded in the constructivist hierarchical coding scheme. Concerns that motivate interest in how actors evaluate different comforting strategies; Methodological implications associated with the study; Background on the constructivist hierarchical coding systems
The Production of Comforting Messages
Prior empirical research has documented the existence of significant individual differences in the quality of the comforting strategies people produce: some people typically produce relatively insensitive, unresponsive comforting strategies while other people produce highly empathic and sensitive comforting strategies. This paper describes the nature and significance of comforting behaviour, discusses methods employed in the study of comforting, …
Communication Skills and Childhood Peer Relationships
(1986). Communication Skills and Childhood Peer Relationships: An Overview. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 9, Communication Yearbook 9, pp. 143-180
Popular, Rejected, and Supportive Preadolescents
On the Continued Undesirability of Item Desirability A Reply to Boster, Hunter, and Seibold
Journal Article On the Continued Undesirability of Item Desirability: A Reply to Boster, Hunter, and Seibold Get access Brant R. Burleson, Brant R. Burleson 1Brant R. Burleson (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign, 1982) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven R. Wilson Steven R. Wilso…
Item Desirability Effects in Compliance-Gaining Research Seven Studies Documenting Artifacts in the Strategy Selection Procedure
A popular method for assessing compliance-gaming behavior involves having people rate lists of preformulated message strategies for likelihood of use. This "selection procedure" has been employed much more frequently than the alternative "construction procedure," a method that requires people to generate their own message strategies. The present article argues that the selection procedure is much less sensitive than the construction procedure to …
Multiple Effects of Messages with Multiple Goals Some Perceived Outcomes of Responses to Sexual Harassment
Sexual amassment of employees by organizational superiors is a significant and all too common problem in the workplace. Victims of harassment typically want to achieve a variety of instrumental, relational, and identity management goals. The present study tested the perceived effectiveness of different messages with respect to several of these goals. Messages varied systematically with respect to what O'Keefe (1988) has termed "design logic" and …
Behavioral Complexity Is in the Eye of the Beholder Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Message Complexity on Impressions of the Source of Comforting Messages
Recent theorizing suggests that exposure to sophisticated or behaviorally complex messages (i.e., messages that reflect a concern with multiple goals) may enhance the cognitiue development of message recipients. Reasoning that persons attempt to accommodate their cognitive structuring of an environment to the level of complexity in that environment, it was hypothesized that persons exposed to behaviorally complex messages would form more differen…
A new look at similarity and attraction in marriage
Most research on the relationship between similarity and attraction has been informed by Byrne's (1971) effectance‐arousal model. This model maintains that similarities promote attraction because the discovery of similarities, particularly attitudinal similarities, is reinforcing. The current paper offers an alternative account of the similarity/attraction relationship distinct from the effectance‐arousal model both in the similarities it views a…
Taking communication seriously
(1992). Taking communication seriously. Communication Monographs: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 79-86
Are There Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Academic Performance and Social Behavior
A growing body of research suggests that peer-related communication skills and experiences may facilitate academic achievement, especially in the college environment. However, there is substantial evidence that men and women differ in peer-related interaction skills and patterns, suggesting that there may be gender differences in the relationship between academic performance and interaction with peers. Thus far, only one study has systematically …
Friendship and similarities in social‐cognitive and communication abilities
Although researchers have examined how different forms of similarity (e.g., demographic similarity, attitudinal similarity) affect interpersonal attraction, little work has focused on how similarities in social‐cognitive abilities and communication skills affect attraction and relationship development. The present article suggests how the similarity/attraction literature and filter theories of relationship development can be integrated with resea…
Personal Relationships as a Skilled Accomplishment
This article pursues some implications of viewing personal relationships as a skilled accomplishment. It suggests that the social skills through which people conduct their relationship can be an integrative focus for research, sketches an approach to social skills grounded in a functional analysis of personal relationships, and describes how this type of analysis can be coupled with a `doubly developmental' model of relationship change
Men's and Women's Evaluations of Communication Skills in Personal Relationships
Much recent research on gender and communication has emphasized differences in men's and women's communicative conduct, with some theorists going so far as to claim that men and women constitute different cultures. However, comparatively little research has assessed both similarities and differences in men and women's communication to determine whether the sexes are more alike or different. The present paper provides such assessments with respect…
Ethnicity and emotional support in same‐sex friendship
Emotional support is a central feature around which white, middle‐class adults organize their same‐sex friendships. The purpose of this study was to examine whether emotional support is accorded the same significance in the friendships of Asian‐ and African‐Americans. Participants included 199 students (60 Euro‐American men and women, 80 Asian‐American men and women, and 59 African‐American men and women) attending either a state or private unive…
The Relationship between Communication Skill and Marital Satisfaction
Brant R. Burleson, Wayne H. Denton, The Relationship between Communication Skill and Marital Satisfaction: Some Moderating Effects, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 884-902
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