Students' early impressions of instructors: Understanding the role of relational skills and messages

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-85

  Horan, Sean M ^a   Houser, Marian L ^b   Goodboy, Alan K ^c   Frymier, Ann Bainbridge ^d  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmation; Conversational skills; Power; Predicted outcome value theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551581044     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824096.2011.541362     Document Type: Article

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