Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

The following book presents my attempt to rationalize one major argument: in order to
understand people's privacy perceptions and behaviors, we need to adopt a situational …

A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication Close Encounters:
Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their …

Expanding and building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume,
Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook provides new measures in mass …

The primary goal of this manuscript is to advance a new risk revelation model (RRM) that
explains the factors that predict when people will reveal or continue to conceal secrets. We …

This article documents individuals selectively disclosing their political attitudes and
discusses the consequences of these communication patterns for social influence and the …

This study combines the fever model with communication privacy management to examine
the conditions under which military wives are likely to disclose their family stressors or …

In the 20 years since Human Relationships was first published, there has indeed been the
huge increase in the number of courses on relationships in such disciplines as …

The authors examined the impact of intimacy, relational uncertainty, and a partner's
interference on the directness of communication about relational irritations. The authors …

Secrecy is a common and consequential human experience, and yet the literature lacks an
integrative theoretical model that captures this broad experience. Whereas initial research …