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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"message interpretation"”.
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The effects of message direction and sex differences on the interpretation of workplace gossip
… and individuals exposed to these gossip messages must decide how to interpret the gossip. This dissertation explains the definitions and research for gossip, message direction, sex differences, message interpretation, politicalism, and believability. Applying symbolic interactionism and …
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The effects of sex and context on student's interpretation of teachers' high immediacy messages
… that students receive from the behavior. Using a message interpretation perspective, this study examined how sex of the student and sex of the teacher effects students’ interpretations of teachers’ high immediacy behavior in both in-class and extra-class contexts. Results reveal that students …
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BOTTLED FANTASIES: COLLEGE STUDENTS' INTERPRETATIONS OF ALCOHOL ADVERTISING AND ITS EFFECTS
… stages. Under the theoretical framework of the Message Interpretation Process (MIP) model, this study involves how college students interpret alcohol advertising, how their desire, wishful thinking and expectancies toward drinking may account for both the impact of exposure to alcohol …
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Family conversations about end-of-life health decisions
… of a multiple goals perspective as a theory of message interpretation, suggesting a new direction for multiple goals research, which has tended to focus on message production. Practically, the findings imply that end-of-life conversations in families are most effective when family members are …