Despite being the dominant perspective for understanding how messages are produced in
interpersonal communication, multiple goals theories of communication have not been …

People receiving a health diagnosis experience a range of emotions, including uncertainty
and fear, and may average 1 hour a day or more dealing with illnesses such as diabetes …

This research examines how sociotechnical affordances shape interpretation of disclosure
and social judgments on social networking sites. Drawing on the disclosure personalism …

Toward the end of their academic careers, most students are required to demonstrate their
ability to integrate theory and research methodology in their field of study by completing a …

Issues of disclosure and privacy management are important to the development and
maintenance of interpersonal relationships. We discuss communication privacy …

The lion's share of research on secrecy focuses on how deciding to keep or share a secret
impacts a secret‐keeper's well‐being. However, secrets always involve more than one …

The present study uses a rhetorical/normative perspective to examine families'
communication and coping in response to a parent's diagnosis of, and eventual death from …

Researchers in this study explored friends' boundary coordination and ownership
surrounding private information as posed by Communication Privacy Management theory …

Privacy dilemmas are prevalent for women who experience a fertility problem. In this study,
we use communication privacy management (CPM) theory to explore how privacy …

Most extant research on end-of-life communication in families has been based on the
assumption that more communication is better communication. We used a multiple goals …