Abstract
Over the past decade, considerable attention has been devoted to cognitive complexity in the human communication literature. However, the extent to which loquacity, or simple amount of verbal response to stimuli, rather than cognitive processes, has been measured by indices supposed to measure complexity is questionable. One issue that emerges from this controversy concerns whether partialing out the variance in variables, such as social perspective-taking, due to loquacity would lead to a low amount of shared variance between complexity and such variables. In the present study, cognitive complexity scores based on the Role Category Questionnaire correlated significantly with social perspective-taking scores. However, the results of a multiple regression analysis indicated that cognitive complexity scores did not contribute significantly to the prediction when loquacity was entered as the first variable in the equation.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 207-210 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Communication Quarterly |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1984 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Loquacity And Quantity Of Constructs As Predictors Of Social Perspective-Taking. / Beatty, Michael; Payne, Steven K.
In: Communication Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1984, p. 207-210.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Loquacity And Quantity Of Constructs As Predictors Of Social Perspective-Taking
AU - Beatty, Michael
AU - Payne, Steven K.
PY - 1984
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AB - Over the past decade, considerable attention has been devoted to cognitive complexity in the human communication literature. However, the extent to which loquacity, or simple amount of verbal response to stimuli, rather than cognitive processes, has been measured by indices supposed to measure complexity is questionable. One issue that emerges from this controversy concerns whether partialing out the variance in variables, such as social perspective-taking, due to loquacity would lead to a low amount of shared variance between complexity and such variables. In the present study, cognitive complexity scores based on the Role Category Questionnaire correlated significantly with social perspective-taking scores. However, the results of a multiple regression analysis indicated that cognitive complexity scores did not contribute significantly to the prediction when loquacity was entered as the first variable in the equation.
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