Enhancing mutual understanding in synchronous computer-mediated communication by training: Trade-offs in judgmental tasks

Communication Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-177

  Cornelius, Caroline ^a   Boos, Margarete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Conversational coherence; Decision making; Mutual understanding; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038661115     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650202250874     Document Type: Article

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