Current
Course Offerings:
COMM 410 -
Communication in Personal Relationships
COMM 202 - Nonverbal Communication
COMM 241 - Persuasion
COMM 395 - Communication and Health
COMM 460 - Research Methods
COMM 510 - Seminar in Communication in Personal Relationships
COMM 512 - Seminar in
Communication and Conflict
Specialties and
research interests:
Interpersonal/relational
communication; Communicative coping strategies used in the context of problems in personal
relationships; Communication in personal relationship contexts and health outcomes.
Professional Information:
Steve joined the
Communication Studies Department in 2002. His research program focuses on how people
communicatively manage problematic events in the context of personal relationships. His
research on vengeful communication suggests that individuals have a sophisticated array of
symbolic activities used to enact vengeful emotion in their interpersonal relationships
with others. Click the link to see the content of fifteen types of revenge activities
reported by college students when asked to describe something that they or someone they
knew had done to "get even" with a current or past romantic partner. His current
research examines how communication in personal relationships (problematic and otherwise)
links with physical and emotional well-being.
