Author Bios
Kimo Ah Yun (PhD, Michigan State University, 1996) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University at Sacramento. In addition to studying the effect that attitude similarity has on interpersonal attraction, his research has also focused on compliance gaining in interpersonal relationships and the persuasiveness of narrative evidence. Dr. AhYun has published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Studies, and Communication Research Reports.
Mike Allen (PhD, Michigan State University, 1987) is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. His more than 100 published works deal with issues of HIV/ AIDS education and prevention, drug use, persuasion, and other sources of social influence. His work has appeared in Health Education and Behavior, Human Communication Research, Journal of Personal and Social Relationships, Law and Human Behavior, and Communication Education.
Charles R.Berger (PhD, Michigan State University, 1968) is Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, Davis. His research interests include the roles cognitive structures and processes play in social interaction and the ways apprehension and estimates of personal risk are influenced by various features of news reports. He is the former president of the International Communication Association, editor of Human Communication Research and co-editor of Communication Research. His book Planning Strategic Interaction (Erlbaum) compiled his research on plans, planning and message production, and recent articles in Journal of Communication and Human Communication Research have presented his work on threatening trends and risk perception.
Nancy A.Burrell (PhD, Michigan State University, 1987) is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Professor Burrell's research centers on managing conflict in family, workplace and educational contexts. She has published in Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs and Management Communication Quarterly. She is currently investigating the impact of workplace bullies to design dispute systems for organizations.
Daniel Canary (PhD, University of Southern California, 1983) is a Professor of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He has co-authored or edited nine books and two journal special issues. Dan has published over 50 articles, book chapters, and essays on the topic of interpersonal communication. He is the immediate Past President of the International Network for Personal Relationships and has served as a conference program planner for regional, national, and international associations. Finally, Professor Canary is the Editor-Elect of the Western Journal of Communication and serves as an editorial board member for several other scholarly journals.
Tara Crowell (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1999) is an Assistant Professor at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Her major areas of interests are Interpersonal, Health, and Instructional Communication. Professor Crowell continues to investigate HIV positive heterosexuals' communication, attitudes and behaviors prior to heterosexually contracting the virus, in order to link the communication, attitudes and behaviors of HIV positive individuals to those who are not infected. Her ultimate goal for this research is to motivate heterosexually individuals to start to personalize the risk of HIV and engage in safer sexual communication and behaviors.
Judith Marie Dallinger (PhD, University of Nebraska, 1984) is a professor at Western Illinois University. Her research interests fall primarily into the areas of conflict and sex differences in communication. She serves as the Executive Secretary for the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender. Her work has been published in Human Communication Research, Communication Research Reports, Communication Quarterly, and Communication Reports.
James Price Dillard (PhD, Michigan State University, 1983) is Professor of Communication Arts and Director of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison His research interests revolve around the study of influence and persuasion with a special emphasis on the role of emotion in persuasion. In addition to the many research articles and book chapters he has authored, he is responsible for the book entitled Seeking compliance: The production of interpersonal influence messages. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Persuasion Handbook: Developments in Theory and Practice. Dillard has served as the Chair of the Interpersonal Division of the International Communication Association and currently sits on the editorial boards for five social science journals. In recognition of his research achievements, he received the Villas Associate Award from UW-Madison in 1994 and the John E.Hunter Award for Meta-Analysis in 1995.
Kathryn Dinda (PhD, University of Washington, 1981) is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. She has served on the editorial board for Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Human Communication Research, Journal of Applied Communication Journal of Communication, and Women's Studies in Communication. She co-edited Sex differences and similarities in communication and Communication in personal relationships. Dinda has published approximately 30 articles and book chapters including articles in Psychological Bulletin, Human Communication Research Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and Personal Relationships.
Tara M.Emmers-Sommer (PhD, Ohio University, 1995) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona. Emmers-Sommer's area of research is problematic communication in social and personal relationships. Her work can be found in journals such as Human Communication Research, Communication Yearbook, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Communication Quarterly Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Sex Research. She is also the co-author, along with Daniel J.Canary, of the 1997 Guilford book, Sex and gender differences in personal relationships.
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick (PhD, Temple University, 1976) is Professor of communication Arts and Dean for the Social Sciences at the University of Wisconsin. Her research interests are in interaction in personal and social relationships. She has published in numerous journals such as Communication Monographs, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Human Communication Research, Communication Quarterly, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, etc.
Barbara Mae Gayle (PhD, University of Oregon, 1989) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Portland. Selected as a 2001-2002 Carnegie Scholar, Gayle is published in Women's Studies in Communication, Journal of Applied Communication, Management Communication Quarterly and Communication Research Reports.
Mark Hamilton (EDD, Boston University, 1983) is a Professor at the University of Connecticut. His focus is on issues surrounding the use and impact of various forms of language in social interaction and influence. He has published in Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, World Communication, and Communication Theory.
Dale Hample (PhD, University of Illinois, 1975) is Professor of Communication at Western Illinois University. His research interests are primarily argumentation, persuasion, message production, and conflict management. His work has been published in