This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the development of a module to attain the leadership competency of encouraging improved interpersonal communication through feedback; (2) communicating in an American Taoist community; (3) the structural features, interaction patterns, and function of friendship for reticent and nonreticent populations; (4) the effects of interviewees' nonverbal behavior on interviewers' evaluations during a selection interview; (5) seat selection as nonverbal communication; (6) the relationship between small group discussion and self-reflexive evaluation; (7) the impact of fatigue on communication in a dual-career family; (8) therapeutic change in family systems; (9) relational schemata; (10) cultural influences on caretaker-infant interaction; (11) the development of a measure of rhetorical competence in interpersonal communication; (12) mass and vernacular technologies for interpersonal communication via computer; (13) the relationship between communicator style and marital adjustment; (14) the theoretical and empirical integration of two approaches to investigating marital interaction; and (15) the function and significance of metacommunication within marriage. (FL)