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Arthur Jensen Professor Ph.D., University of Massachusetts 205 Crouse College (315) 443-5890 Email: adjensen@syr.edu

Courses Taught

Research Interests
Dr. Jensen is the former Director of the Speech Communication Department. He teaches courses in small group, organizational, and interpersonal communication.  His research focuses on the relationship between forms of communication and individual and communal identities, as well as historical evolution of interpersonal communication practices.  He has co-authored three textbooks, including Interpersonal Communication, and Small Group Communication.  He has also written several articles and book chapters.
  
Expertise
Interpersonal Communication, Small Group Communication.  

Scholarly Publications

Books:
Trenholm, S. and Arthur Jensen, Interpersonal Communication Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, Inc., 2000, 4th edition.  

Barwind, J. and Arthur Jensen, Communication in Everyday Life: The Workbook Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt, 1994.

Arthur Jensen and Joseph Chilberg, Small Group Communication Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, Inc., 1991.

Articles in Refereed Journals:
Hayward, D.G. & Jensen, A.D. "Enhancing a sense of the past: Perceptions of visitors and interpreters." The Interpreter, 1981, 12, 4-11.

Andersen, J.F., Andersen, P.A. & Jensen, A.D. "The measurement of nonverbal immediacy." Journal of Applied Communication, 1979, 7, 153-180.

Book Chapters:
Jensen, A.D. “Communication and the impersonal realm: Forms of communication and the enactment of community,” in S. Gilmore (ed.), Communication: Key Research in the Discipline Belmont, CA: ITP, 2000.

Buttny, R. & Jensen, A.D. “Hot-stove league talk,” in G. Gumpert & S. Drucker (eds.), Communication and Baseball.  Take me out to the ball game: Communicating baseball (pp.71-93). Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Jensen, A.D. & Trenholm, S. “Social cognition: How we perceive individuals, relationships, and social events,” in K. Galvin & P. Cooper (eds.), Making connections: Readings in relational communication (Los Angeles: Roxbury, 1996; 2000).  Also reprinted in R. Adler and N. Towne (eds.), Looking Out/Looking In  Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1996. 

Buttny, R. & Jensen, A.D. "Telling problems in a family therapy session: The hierarchical organization of problem-talk." In G.H. Morris & R.J. Chenial (Eds.) The Talk of the Clinic.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum 1995.

Elliot, S.M., Scott, M.D., Jensen, A.D. & McDonough, M. "Perceptions of reticence: A cross-cultural investigation." In M. Burgoon (ed.), Communication Yearbook 5. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books,1982.

Book Reviews:
Jensen, A.D.  Review of Pamela J. Kalbfleisch (Ed.) Interpersonal Communication: Evolving Interpersonal Relationships Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Jensen, A.D. "Communicating through life."  A review of Jon F. Nussbaum (Ed.), Life-Span Communication: Normative Processes (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989). Published in Communication Quarterly, Spring 1991, 39, 190-191.