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| A scholar and administrator from the University of Illinois who has played a leading role in developing the theory of constructivism. |
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| A communication theory based on the assumption that persons make sense of the world through systems of personal constructs. |
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| A scholar from the University of Kansas who created the Role Category Questionnaire. |
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| Role Category Questionnaire (RCQ) |
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| A free-response instrument used by constructivists to measure a persons cognitive complexity in interpersonal communication. |
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| A sophisticated set of mental constructs that enables a person to distinguish subtle differences among people. |
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| The cognitive template or stencil we fit over social reality to order our impressions of people. |
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| A component of cognitive complexity measured by the number of separate personality constructs used to describe someone on the RCQ. |
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| Sophisticated communication that reflects an awareness of and adaptations to subjective, affective, and relational aspects of the communication contexts. Causally linked to cognitive complexity, person-centered messages are better able to accomplish multiple goals. |
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| A communication researcher from the University of Illinois who teamed up with Delia to study the link between person-centered messages and cognitive complexity in schoolchildren. |
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| A researcher at the University of Illinois who has pioneered the concept of message design logics. |
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| Three implicit theoriesexpressive, conventional, and rhetorical---of the ways in which communication can be shaped to serve as means to ends. |
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| The implicit belief that language is a medium for openly and honestly expressing our thoughts and feelings. |
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| Conventional Design Logic |
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| The implicit belief that communication is a game played cooperatively, according to socially conventional rules and procedures. |
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| The implicit belief that communication is the creation and negotiation of social selves and situations. |
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| A communication researcher from Purdue University who has explored the link between cognitive complexity and the success of comforting messages. |
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| A communication researcher from the University of Delaware who has teamed up with Burleson to test the relationship between cognitive complexity and relationship maintenance. |
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| Beverly Sypher and Theodore Zorn |
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| Communication researchers from the Virginia Tech (formerly from the University of Kansas) and the University of Waikato, New Zealand (formerly from the University of North Carolina), respectively, who have demonstrated the connection between cognitive complexity and organizational effectiveness. |
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| A communication scholar from the University of Kentucky whoalong with Burleson and Deliahas demonstrated that cognitive complexity is transmitted culturally. |
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