TEACHING AND RESEARCH
INTERESTS
- Undergraduate Teaching
- Graduate Teaching
- Research
Interests
My primary teaching and research interests
center on nonverbal and relational communication, with emphasis on such
interpersonal communication processes and outcomes as expectancy violations,
deception, nonverbal relational messages, conversation involvement and dominance,
and dyadic adaptation patterns. I also hae a subsidiary interest in mass
media uses and evaluations.
Teaching (Undergraduate)
My teaching focuses on theory, research,
and methods related to these same topics. At the undergraduate level, I
have taught:
• Nonverbal communication
• Interpersonal communication
• Relational communication
• Nonverbal communication in close
relationships
• Signs and Sign Behavior
• Small Group Communication
•Theories of Human Communication
• Discussion Methods
• Argumentation
• Advanced Argumentation
• Learning Theories and Communication
•Voice and Diction
• Principles of Human Communication
• Effective Communication in the
Classroom
Teaching (Graduate)
At the graduate level, I have taught many
of these same courses plus:
• Communication Theory: Interpersonal
Relationship Management
• Dyadic Interaction Processes
• Interpersonal Expectancies and
Violations
• Theories of Intimacy Exchange/Theories
of Interpersonal Intimacy
• Research Methods II: Advanced
Analysis of Variance and Multiple Regression
• Multivariate Research Methods
• Nonverbal Research Methods
Research
Interests
My current research interests include:
• Interpersonal adaptation patterns
and tests of Interaction Adaptation Theory
• Mediate interpersonal communication
and tests of the Inter-Activity Effect
• Nonverbal expectancy violations
and tests of Expectancy Violations Theory
• Interactional Dominance
• Interpersonal deception and Tests
of Interpersonal Deception Theory
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