1. Jennifer L. Bevan is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada , Las Vegas.
2. Jerold L. Hale is associate professor and head of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia .
3. Sandra L. Williams is an Emerging Leaders Fellow at the National Institutes of Health . The authors wish to thank Jim Dillard and Jennifer Samp for their assistance in this project. The data were collected at the University of Georgia. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, 2001.