Publications

Publication details [#60751]

Dibble, Jayson L., Emiko Taniguchi, Amy M. Wisner, Andrea Kubulins, Lisa van Raalte, Aili Peyton, Michael Cacal and Lauren Dobbins. 2015. Hesitation to Share Bad News: By-Product of Verbal Message Planning or Functional Communication Behavior? Communication Research 42 (1) : 213–236.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | feedback | message properties | onset of verbal behavior | politeness

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Two experiments employed a mock feedback test to define whether the usual lag in the onset of bad news reporting is better explained by politeness, negative verbal message planning, or both. Both tests endorse the functional politeness account, and test 2 also endorses the negative verbal message–planning account.