This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles discuss a variety of topics, including the following: (1) caregiver talk to toddlers in dyadic and polyadic care; (2) communication tactics for neutralizing verbal aggression; (3) physical attractiveness and nonverbal skills; (4) the effects of communication training on marital communication, satisfaction, and self-concept; (5) the interpersonal relationships of teachers, parents, and students; (6) evaluation of a communications skills program with stepfather-adolescent-mother triads; (7) the parent-adolescent dyad in the formation of political attitudes and perceptions; (8) communication equity and conversation in marital dyads; (9) a curriculum project in interpersonal communication and relationships; (10) communication strategies of public school and Montessori parents and teachers; (11) human communication networking in a teleconferencing environment; (12) communication barriers inhibiting sex education in the home; (13) interpersonal relationships as reflected in eleventh grade learning style preferences; and (14) the effects of interviewer presumptuousness and interviewee sex on interviewee self-disclosure in a female-conducted counseling interview. (HTH)