Verbal Slips and Double Entendres/Cognitive Processing

Motley, M.T., C.T. Camden, and B.J. Baars. (1979). Personality and situational influences upon verbal slips: A laboratory test of Freudian and prearticulatory-editing hypotheses. Human Communication Research 5:195-202.

Motley, M.T. (1986). The production of verbal slips and double entendres as clues to the efficiency of normal speech production. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 4:275-293.

Motley, M.T. (1981). A linguistic analysis of glossolalia: Evidence of unique psycholinguistic processing. Communication Quarterly 30:18-27.

Interpersonal Deception and Manipulation

Camden, C.T., M.T. Motley, and A. Wilson. (1984). White lies in interpersonal communication: A taxonomy and (preliminary) investigation of social motivations. Western Journal of Speech Communication 48:309-325.

Motley, M.T. and Smith, N.L. (1989). Effects of temperament upon hiring decisions: A preliminary examination of global personality traits and communicator compatibility. Communication Reports 2:22

Facial Expression in Natural Communication

Motley, M.T. & Camden, C.T. (1988). Facial expression of emotion: A comparison of posed versus spontaneous expressions in an interpersonal-communication setting, Western Journal of Speech Communication 52:1-22.

Motley, M.T. (1993 ). Facial affect and verbal context in conversation: Facial expression as interjection. Human Communication Research 20: 3-40.

Consciousness and Intention in Communication

Motley, M.T. (1986). Consciousness and intention in communication: A preliminary model and methodological approaches. Western Journal of Speech Communication 50:3-23.

Motley, M.T. (1990). On whether one can(not) not communicate: An examination via traditional communication postulates. Western Journal of Speech Communication 54:1-20.

Motley, M.T. (1992). Mindfulness in solving communicators' dilemmas. Communication Monographs 59:306-314.

Public-Speaking Anxiety

Motley, M.T. and Molloy, J.L. (1994) An efficacy test of a new therapy ("communication-orientation-motivation") for public-speaking anxiety. Journal of Applied Communication Research , 22: 48-58.

Motley, M.T. COM therapy. (1997). In Avoiding Communication , 2nd Ed. (Daly, McCrosky ? , Ayres, et al., Eds.), Hampton Press, 379-400.

Motley, M.T. (1998). Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking : A Proven Method . New York: Houghton Mifflin

Interpersonal-Communicator's Dilemmas

Motley, M.T. & Reeder, H. M. (1995). Unwanted escalation of sexual intimacy: Male and female perceptions of connotations and relational consequences of resistance messages, Communication Monographs , 62: 356-382.

Motley, M.T., & Osborn, S. (1999). Improving Human Communication . Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Motley, M.T., Reeder M.R., and Faulkner, L.J. (Forthcoming) Factors determining the fate of friendships after unrequited disclosures.

Motley, M.T., & Motley, S.M. (Forthcoming). The belief system underlying verbal coercion seduction strategies.