This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 32 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the analysis of conversational sequencing in group systems; (2) the effects of hearing aids on interpersonal perceptions; (3) styles of communication between parents and their bright, underachieving children and parents and their achieving children; (4) the effects of a marriage encounter program on marital communication, dyadic adjustment and the quality of the interpersonal relationship; (5) small group discussion leadership in a volunteer organization; (6) the effects of value dissimilarity on group representatives; (7) the development of turn taking in children's conversations; (8) the role of rapport in talking with foreigners; (9) the effect of fixed and changing interpersonal distance on the feedback behaviors of males; (10) family communication, media behavior, and deliquency; (11) deceptive communication in preschool children; (12) the use of formulaic speech in father-child conversational interaction; (13) language and ethnic self-identity among Jewish families; and (14) children's telephone conversations. (FL)