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Communication Research

Volume 36(4), 2009


CONTENTS

Fujioka, Yuki, Ryan, Erin, Agle, Mark, Legaspi, Melissa, and Toohey, Raiza	The role of racial identity in responses to thin media ideals: Differences between white and black college women	251-274

	A survey of 286 White and Black female college students examined the racial differences in perception of thin media images and its relation to personal importance of thinness and fear of fat

	Search CIOS databases for resources containing these metaterms: interpersonal african american issues and civil rights race and ethnicity cognition theory gender broadcasting and media

Palomares, Nicholas A.	Did you see it coming?: Effects of the specificity and efficiency of goal pursuit on the accuracy and onset of goal detection in social interaction	475-509

	To test aspects of a theoretical framework on goal detection in social interaction, an experiment examined dyadic initial interactions wherein one participant pursued a goal unbeknownst to another participant

	Search CIOS databases for resources containing these metaterms: personality and psychology interpersonal cognition

Theiss, Jennifer A., and Knobloch, Leanne K.	An actor-partner interdependence model of irritations in romantic relationships	510-537

	This study examined actor and partner effects of relationship characteristics on people's appraisals of irritations

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Palomares, Nicholas A.	Women are sort of more tentative than men, aren't they?: How men and women use tentative language differently, similarly, and counterstereotypically as a function of gender salience	538-560

	Based on self-categorization theory's explanation for gender-based language use, male and female participants sent e-mail on a masculine, feminine, or gender-neutral topic to an ostensible male or female recipient (i.e., intergroup or intragroup dyads)

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Givertz, Michelle, Segrin, Chris, and Hanzal, Alesia	The association between satisfaction and commitment differs across marital couple types	561-584

	Research and theory indicate that satisfaction is a key determinant of commitment

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Hendrickson, Blake, and Goei, Ryan	Reciprocity and dating: Explaining the effects of favor and status on compliance with a date request	585-608

	A robust finding in compliance-seeking message effects research is that providing an unsolicited favor to a target before making a direct request for compliance is more effective than a direct request alone

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