| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | From coworkers to friends: The development of peer friendships in the workplace | Western Journal of Communication | 1998 | 305 |
| 2 | Impression development in computer‐mediated interaction | Western Journal of Communication | 1993 | 262 |
| 3 | The problem of hegemony: Rereading Gramsci for organizational communication studies | Western Journal of Communication | 1997 | 167 |
| 4 | Blended relationships: Friends as work associates | Western Journal of Communication | 1992 | 158 |
| 5 | Functions of humor in conversation: Conceptualization and measurement | Western Journal of Communication | 1992 | 125 |
| 6 | Kissing in Marital and Cohabiting Relationships: Effects on Blood Lipids, Stress, and Relationship Satisfaction | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 121 |
| 7 | Resisting whiteness' rhetorical silence | Western Journal of Communication | 1997 | 117 |
| 8 | What's love got to do with it? Exploring the impact of maintenance rules, love attitudes, and network support on friends with benefits relationships | Western Journal of Communication | 2005 | 112 |
| 9 | The materiality of discourse as oxymoron: A challenge to critical rhetoric | Western Journal of Communication | 1994 | 111 |
| 10 | Coping with the green‐eyed monster: Conceptualizing and measuring communicative responses to romantic jealousy | Western Journal of Communication | 1995 | 106 |
| 11 | Human Affection Exchange: XII. Affectionate Communication is Associated with Diurnal Variation in Salivary Free Cortisol | Western Journal of Communication | 2006 | 100 |
| 12 | Humor in member narratives: Uniting and dividing at work | Western Journal of Communication | 1997 | 99 |
| 13 | “Just listen”: “Listening” and landscape among the blackfeet | Western Journal of Communication | 1999 | 98 |
| 14 | Referees and affiliations | Western Journal of Communication | 1993 | 95 |
| 15 | On a Scale of State Empathy During Message Processing | Western Journal of Communication | 2010 | 92 |
| 16 | Perceived instructor argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness in the college classroom: Effects on student perceptions of climate, apprehension, and state motivation | Western Journal of Communication | 2001 | 86 |
| 17 | College Teacher Misbehaviors: Direct and Indirect Effects on Student Communication Behavior and Traditional Learning Outcomes | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 86 |
| 18 | Reflections on criticism and bodies: Parables from public places | Western Journal of Communication | 2001 | 85 |
| 19 | The acceptability of deception as a function of perceivers' culture, deceiver's intention, and deceiver‐deceived relationship | Western Journal of Communication | 2002 | 81 |
| 20 | Memory and myth at the Buffalo Bill Museum | Western Journal of Communication | 2005 | 80 |
| 21 | “I Would Just Like to be Known as an Athlete”: Managing Hegemony, Femininity, and Heterosexuality in Female Sport | Western Journal of Communication | 2008 | 80 |
| 22 | “You're the Kind of Guy That We All Want for a Drinking Buddy”: Expressions of Parasocial Interaction on Floydlandis.com | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 80 |
| 23 | “I Am Also in the Position to Use My Whiteness to Help Them Out”: The Communication of Whiteness in Service Learning | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 79 |
| 24 | An interpersonal model for participation in mentoring relationships | Western Journal of Communication | 1993 | 78 |
| 25 | Affectionate communication in nonromantic relationships: Influences of communicator, relational, and contextual factors | Western Journal of Communication | 1997 | 78 |
| 26 | The rhetoric of <family values>: Scapegoating, utopia, and the privatization of social responsibility | Western Journal of Communication | 1998 | 78 |
| 27 | The Role of “Active Listening” in Informal Helping Conversations: Impact on Perceptions of Listener Helpfulness, Sensitivity, and Supportiveness and Discloser Emotional Improvement | Western Journal of Communication | 2015 | 77 |
| 28 | The Uncivil Tongue: Invitational Rhetoric and the Problem of Inequality | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 76 |
| 29 | Family Communication Schemata and the Circumplex Model of Family Functioning | Western Journal of Communication | 2005 | 74 |
| 30 | Relational Maintenance in Cross‐Sex Friendships Characterized by Different Types of Romantic Intent: An Exploratory Study | Western Journal of Communication | 2005 | 74 |
| 31 | Argument and verbal aggression in constructive and destructive family and organizational disagreements | Western Journal of Communication | 1994 | 73 |
| 32 | A “changing culture of fatherhood”: Effects on affectionate communication, closeness, and satisfaction in men's relationships with their fathers and their sons | Western Journal of Communication | 2002 | 73 |
| 33 | Relational and Health Correlates of Affection Deprivation | Western Journal of Communication | 2014 | 73 |
| 34 | Relational characteristics of language: Elaboration and differentiation in marital conversations | Western Journal of Communication | 1997 | 72 |
| 35 | Equity and uncertainty in relational maintenance | Western Journal of Communication | 2003 | 72 |
| 36 | Seeking Health Information in the Information Age: The Role of Internet Self-Efficacy | Western Journal of Communication | 2008 | 72 |
| 37 | Overcoming the objectification of nature in constitutive theories: Toward a transhuman, materialist theory of communication | Western Journal of Communication | 1998 | 71 |
| 38 | Communicative and Relational Dimensions of Shared Family Identity and Relational Intentions in Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Relationships: Developing a Conceptual Model for Mother-in-Law/Daughter-in-Law Research | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 67 |
| 39 | Identity implications of influence goals: Initiating, intensifying, and ending romantic relationships | Western Journal of Communication | 2003 | 66 |
| 40 | It Depends on Who You're Talking To…: Predictors and Outcomes of Situated Measures of Organizational Identification | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 66 |
| 41 | Isn't it ironic: Using irony to explore the contradictions of organizational life | Western Journal of Communication | 1999 | 65 |
| 42 | Fueling the flames of the green‐eyed monster: The role of ruminative thought in reaction to romantic jealousy | Western Journal of Communication | 2000 | 65 |
| 43 | Memorable messages and newcomer socialization | Western Journal of Communication | 2004 | 64 |
| 44 | Investigating the Role of Identity Gaps among Communicative and Relational Outcomes within the Grandparent–Grandchild Relationship: The Young-Adult Grandchildren's Perspective | Western Journal of Communication | 2009 | 64 |
| 45 | Sustaining the desire to learn: Dimensions of perceived instructional facework related to student involvement and motivation to learn | Western Journal of Communication | 2003 | 63 |
| 46 | Employee Perspectives on Implementation Communication as Predictors of Perceptions of Success and Resistance | Western Journal of Communication | 2006 | 62 |
| 47 | Pillow Talk: Exploring Disclosures After Sexual Activity | Western Journal of Communication | 2012 | 62 |
| 48 | Antecedents and Consequences of the Perceived Threat of Sexual Communication: A Test of the Relational Turbulence Model | Western Journal of Communication | 2014 | 62 |
| 49 | Performing critical interruptions: Stories, rhetorical invention, and the environmental justice movement | Western Journal of Communication | 2001 | 61 |
| 50 | Emergent issues in families experiencing adolescent‐to‐parent abuse | Western Journal of Communication | 2004 | 61 |
