Supportive interactions often pose conflicting goals: Speakers want to give or receive
support, simultaneously conveying and receiving acceptance and preserving the autonomy …

Numerous factors affect the outcomes of supportive interactions, including aspects of the
supportive message, the helper, the interaction context, and the recipient. This article …

The study of supportive communication revolves around verbal and nonverbal behaviors
that are enacted with the primary intention of improving the psychological state of another …

I have spent much of the last 30 years engaged in the study of comforting communication,
which I define as messages having the goal of alleviating or lessening the emotional …

This article reports tests of hypotheses derived from a theory of supportive message
outcomes that maintains that the effects of supportive messages are moderated by factors …

Most recently, Brant battled metastatic esopha-geal cancer, ultimately passing away before
this chapter was completed, leaving us bereft not only of a coauthor but of a mentor, friend …

Viewing supportive communication as a multistage process, the present study proposed and
tested an integrated model of advice giving, which specifies three sequential moves in …

To test a recently proposed dual-process theory of supportive communication outcomes,
participants (N= 328) assumed they had experienced a mildly or moderately problematic …

This paper reports on a two-part investigation of people's criteria for evaluating (a) how
skillful comforting behavior is, and (b) the outcomes of comforting interactions for distressed …

People orient to multiple concerns during interaction. As is illustrated by research on
accounts (Cody & McLaughlin, 1985), embarrassment (Petronio, 1984), and social …