Stephen Yoshimura

 

Faculty Image  Office Location: LA 347
 Office Telephone: (406) 243-4951
 E-mail: stephen.yoshimura@umontana.edu

Current Position:

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Description:

My research program focuses on how people communicatively manage problematic events in the context of personal relationships, specifically how people manage and enact emotions related to revenge and jealousy. Recently, I have begun researching the associations between communication in personal relationships (problematic and otherwise) and physical and emotional well-being.

For more information about the Department of Communication Studies, please see: http://www.cas.umt.edu/dcs/

Current Semester Office Hours:

Variable by semester, but always by appointment.

Field Of Study:

Communication in Personal Relationships, the "Dark Side" of interpersonal communication, communication and personal and relational well-being

Research Interests:

Communication of vengeful and jealous emotion; Associations between interpersonal communicative activity and health indicators

Courses:

Nonverbal Communication (COMM 202)

Communication and Health (COMM 395)

Education:

Arizona State University (Ph.D., 2002)

San Francisco State University (M.A., 1998)

Arizona State University (B.A., 1994)

Teaching Experience:

Courses Taught

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


Affiliations:

International Assocation for Relationship Research

International Communication Association

National Communication Association

Western States Communication Association


Countries Visited:

  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • British Virgin Islands