A cognitive-style map was prepared for each of seven instructors and 125 college students drawn from those enrolled in a course in interpersonal communications. Students were partitioned into low-match, moderate-match, and high-match subgroups, on the basis of the degree of cognitive match with their instructors, before completing a communicaton accuracy exercise. Hypotheses that students with higher degrees of cognitive match would score relatively higher on the task were not supported by the data. (Author/AA)