Palomares, N. A. (2008, November). It's not just your goal, but also who you know: How the cognitive associations between goals and relationships determine the accuracy, onset latency and certainty of goal inferences in social interaction. Paper to be presented at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

Palomares, N. A. (2008, May). Women are sort of more tentative than men, aren’t they? How men and women use tentative language differently, similarly, and counter-stereotypically as a function of gender salience. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.
*Top Three Paper Award, Intergroup Communication Interest Group

Reid, S. A., Palomares, N. A., Anderson, G. L., & Bondad-Brown, B. A. (2008, May). A new proposal for breaking the glass-ceiling: A self-categorization perspective on gender, language, and social influence. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.
*Top Two Paper Award, Intergroup Communication Interest Group

Palomares, N. A. (2007, November). Did you see it coming? Effects of the specificity and efficiency of goal pursuit on the accuracy and onset of goal detection in social interaction. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
*Top Four Paper Award, Communication and Social Cognition Division

Palomares, N. A. (2007, May). Explaining gender-based language use: Effects of gender identity salience and message recipient’s sex on references to emotion and tentative language. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Palomares, N. A. (2006, November). Toward a theory of goal inferences in social interaction: The effects of contextual ambiguity and tactical functionality on goal inferences and inference certainty. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX.
*Top Three Paper Award, Communication and Social Cognition Division

Palomares, N. A. (2005, May). Toward a theory of goal detection in social interaction: Goal-, perspective-, and context-based similarities determine goal detection inaccuracy. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, New York, NY.

Palomares, N. A., & Flanagin, J. A. (2004, November). The potential of electronic communication and information technologies as research tools: Promise and problems for the future of communication research. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Palomares, N. A., & Kellermann, K. (2004, November). Relational bond and relational position: How relational types differ across a multi-dimensional space. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Palomares, N. A., Reid, S. A., & Bradac, J. J. (2004, May). A self-categorization perspective on gender and communication: Reconciling the gender-as-culture and dominance explanations. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.
*Top Three Paper Award, Intergroup Communication Interest Group

Dailey, R. M., & Palomares, N. A. (2003, November). Strategic topic avoidance: An investigation of topic avoidance frequency, strategies used, and relational correlates. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Miami Beach, FL. [Authorship order was determined randomly.]

Reid, S. A., Palomares, N. A., & Keerie, N. (2003, November). Language, gender salience, and social influence. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Miami Beach, FL.
*Top Three Paper Award, Communication and Social Cognition Commission

Mulac, A., Bradac, J. J., & Palomares, N. A. (2003, May). A general process model of the gender-linked language effect: Antecedents for and consequences of language used by men and women. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

Palomares, N. A. (2003, May). Gender schematicity, gender identity salience, and gender-linked language use. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
*Top Student and Top Minority Student Paper Awards, Interpersonal Communication Division

Kellermann, K., & Palomares, N. A. (2002, July). Topical profiling: Likely, co-occurring, and relationally-defining topics in talk. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Seoul, Korea.

Palomares, N. A. (2002, July). The conversational topic literature along a continuum of perspectives. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, Seoul, Korea.

Mulac, A., Flanagin, A. J., Tiyaamornwong, V., Palomares, N. A., & Hallet, J. (2001, November). Gender-linked language differences in virtual group deliberations. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA.