Curriculum
Vitae
Charles
Pavitt
Department
of Communication
Pearson
Hall
Education
Ph. D. in Communication
Arts,
M. A. in Communication Arts,
B. A. in Communication Arts
and Sciences,
Teaching
Experience
Professor, University of
Delaware, 2003-present
Associate Professor,
University of Delaware, 1994-2003
Assistant Professor,
University of Delaware, 1987-1994
Small
Group Communication
Communication
Theory
Interpersonal
Communication
Quantitative
Research Methods
Conversational
and Content/Interaction Analysis
Organizational
Communication
Visiting Associate
Professor,
Small
Group Communication
Communication
Theory
Quantitative
Research Methods
Lecturer, George Washington
University, 1986-1987
Small
Group Communication
Lecturer, Graduate Faculty,
Small
Group Communication
Research
Methods
Instructor,
Small
Group Communication
Teaching Assistant,
Small
Group Communication
Psychology
of Communication (Discussion Sections)
Introduction
to Human Communication (Discussion Sections)
Public
Speaking
Publications
Pavitt, C., Braddock, K., & Mann, A. (in
preparation). Group communication during
resource dilemmas: 3. Effects of social value orientation.
Pavitt, C. (in preparation). Group communication and social influence. In
Pavitt, C. (in press). Communication/relationship rules. In
Pavitt, C., High, A. C., Tressler, K. E., & Winslow, J. K. (in press). Leadership communication during group resource dilemmas. Small Group Research.
Pavitt, C. (2006). Impression
formation. In B. B. Whaley and W. Samter (Eds.), Explaining communication: Contemporary
theories and exemplars (pp. 61-72).
Pavitt, C., Zingerman, V.. Towey, E., & McFeeters,
C. (2006). Group communication during resource
dilemmas: 2: Effects of asymmetry in harvest limit and reward. Communication Research, 33, 64-91.
Pavitt, C., McFeeters, C., Towey, E., & Zingerman,
V. (2005). Communication during resource
dilemmas: 1. Effects of different replenishment rates. Communication Monographs, 72, 345-363.
Pavitt. C.
(2004). Theory-data
interaction from the standpoint of the scientific realist: A response to Bostrom. Communication
Monographs, 71, 333-342.
Pavitt, C., Philipp,
M., & Johnson, K. K. (2004). Who owns a group_s proposals: The initiator or the group as a
whole? Communication Research Reports,
21, 221-230.
Pavitt, C. (2004). Political
participation as group communication [Review of J. Gastil,
By popular demand: Revitalizing representative democracy through
deliberative elections.] Review
of Communication, 4, 114-117.
Pavitt, C., & Hopkins, J. (2004). Cooperative discussion in a group
setting. Atlantic Journal of
Communication, 12, 105-119.
Pavitt, C. (2003). Review of F. Batten
and J. F. Cruikshank, The Weather Channel: The
improbable rise of a media phenomenon.
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 80, 1003-1004.
Pavitt, C. (2003). Why we have to be reductionists about group memory. Human Communication Research, 29,
592-599; and
Pavitt. C. (2003). Why we still have to be reductionists
about group memory.
Human
Communication Research, 29, 624-629. (These essays open and close a colloquy on
the topic of group memory, respectively).
Shankar, A., & Pavitt, C. (2002). Resource and public goods dilemmas: A
new issue for communication research. Review
of Communication, 2(3), 251-272. Available
at http://www.natcom.org/roc
Pavitt, C., & Johnson, K. K. (2002). Scheidel
and Crowell revisited: A descriptive study of group proposal sequencing. Communication Monographs, 69, 19-32.
Pavitt, C., & Johnson, K. K. (2001). The association
between group procedural MOPs and group discussion
procedure. Small Group Research, 32,
595-624.
Pavitt, C. (2001). Philosophy
of science and communication theory.
Pavitt, C. (2000). Answering questions
requesting scientific explanations for communication. Communication Theory, 10, 379-404.
Pavitt, C., & Kemp, B.
(1999).
Contextual and relational factors in interpersonal negotiation
strategy choice. Communication
Quarterly, 47, 133-150.
Pavitt, C. (1999). Theorizing about
the communication/leadership relationship: Causal and functional forms. In L. R. Frey, D. S. Gouran
& M. S. Poole (Eds.), The handbook of
group communication theory and research (pp. 313-334).
Pavitt, C., & Johnson, K. K. (1999). An examination of the coherence of group discussions. Communication Research, 26, 303-321.
Pavitt, C. (1999). The third way:
Scientific realism and communication theory.
Communication Theory, 9, 162-188.
Pavitt, C., Whitchurch,
G. G., Siple, H., & Petersen, N. (1997). Communication and
emergent group leadership: Does content count?
Communication Research Reports, 14, 470-480.
Pavitt, C., Perse,
E. M., & Burggraf, C. S. (1995). The stability of
college students' implicit theories of marriage. Communication Quarterly, 43, 332-341
(previously presented at the International Communication Association
convention,
Pavitt, C., Whitchurch,
G. G., McClurg, H., & Petersen, N. (1995). Melding the
objective and subjective sides of leadership: Perceptions and behaviors in
decision making groups. Communication
Monographs, 62, 243-264.
Pavitt, C. (1993). Does communication
matter in social influence during small group discussion? Five
positions. Communication
Studies, 44, 216-227 (published 1995).
Pavitt, C. (1994). Review of Horwich, P. (Ed.) (1993).
World changes: Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science,
and Cromer, A. (1993). Uncommon
sense: The heretical nature of science.
Communication Theory, 4, 324-330.
Pavitt, C. (1994). The theoretical
commitments presupposed by functional approaches to group discussion. Small Group Research, 25, 520-541.
Pavitt, C. (1994). Another view of
group polarizing: The "reasons for" one-sided oral
argumentation. Communication
Research, 21, 625-642.
Pavitt, C., & Curtis, E. (1994). Small
group discussion: A theoretical approach
(2nd ed.).
Perse, E. M., Burggraf,
C. S., & Pavitt, C. Q. (1993). College students'
perceptions of marriage on television. New
Jersey Journal of Communication, 1, 103-116 (previously presented at
the Eastern Communication Association convention,
Pavitt, C. (1993). What (little) we
know about formal group discussion procedures: A review of relevant
research. Small Group Research, 24,
217-235 (previously presented at the Speech Communication Association
convention,
Pavitt, C. (1992). Describing know-how
about group discussion procedure: Must the representation be recursive? Communication Studies, 43, 150-170
(previously presented at the Speech Communication Association convention,
Pavitt, C. (1991). An analysis of
artificial intelligence based models for describing communicative choice. Communication Theory, 1, 204-224
(previously presented at the Temple University Conference on Discourse
Analysis,
Pavitt, C. (1990). A controlled test
of some "complicating factors" relevant to the inferential model for
evaluations of communicative competence.
Western Journal of Speech Communication, 54, 575-592.
Pavitt, C., & Sackaroff,
P. (1990). Implicit theories of leadership and judgments of leadership among
group members. Small Group Research,
21, 374-394.
Perse, E. M., Pavitt,
C., & Burggraf, C. S. (1990). Implicit theories
of marriage and evaluations of marriages on television. Human Communication Research, 16,
387-408 (previously presented at the Eastern Communication Association
convention,
Pavitt, C. (1990). The ideal
communicator as the basis for competence judgments of self and friend. Communication Reports, 3, 9-14.
Pavitt, C., & Curtis, E. (1990). Small
group discussion: A theoretical approach.
Pavitt, C. (1989). Accounting for the
process of communicative competence evaluation: A comparison of predictive
models. Communication Research, 16,
405-433 (previously presented at the International Communication Association
convention,
Pavitt, C. (1989). Bias in the recall
of communicators' behaviors. Communication
Reports, 2, 9-15 (previously presented at the Eastern Communication
Association convention,
Pavitt, C., & Haight, L. (1986). Implicit theories of communicative
competence: The semantics of social behavior.
Central States Speech Journal, 37, 204-219 (previously presented
at the Speech Communication Association convention,
Pavitt, C., & Haight, L. (1986). Implicit theories of communicative
competence: Situational and competence level differences in judgments of prototype
and target. Communication Monographs,
53, 221-235 (previously presented at the Speech Communication Association
convention,
Pavitt, C., & Penrod, S. (1986). A test of two implicit assumptions of
algebraic modelling: Salience and familiarity effects
in affective evaluations of national leaders.
Journal of Social Psychology, 128, 291-303 (previously presented
at the American Psychological Association convention,
Pavitt, C., & Haight, L. (1985). The "competent communicator"
as a cognitive prototype. Human Communication Research, 12, 225-241
(previously presented at the International Communication Association
convention,
Hewes, D. E., Graham, M. L., Doelger,
J., & Pavitt, C.
(1985). "Second-guessing":
Message interpretation in social networks.
Human Communication Research, 11, 299-334 (previously presented
at the International Communication Association convention,
Pavitt, C. (1981). A test of six
models of coorientation: The effect of task and
disagreement level on judgments of uncertainty, utility, and desired
communicative behavior. In M. Burgoon (Ed.), Communication
yearbook 5 (pp. 303-330).
Pavitt, C. (1981). Preliminaries to a
theory of communication: A system for the cognitive representation of person-
and object-based information. In M. Burgoon (Ed.), Communication
yearbook 5 (pp. 211-232).
Pavitt, C., & Cappella, J. N. (1979). Coorientational
accuracy in interpersonal and small group discussions: A literature review,
model, and simulation. In D. Nimmo (Ed.), Communication
yearbook 3 (pp. 123-156).
Unpublished
Convention Papers
Rouleau, S., Burggraf
Torppa, C. S., Pavitt, C.,
& Samter, W. (1998). Differences in casual dating MOPs: Coercive sexuality and dynamic memory. National Communication Association,
Pavitt, C. (1997). Tension cycles in
structured and unstructured group discussion.
Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore.
Pavitt, C. (1994). Student evaluations
of communication research methods courses: Relative levels and contributing
factors. Eastern Communication
Association, Washington.
Burggraf, C. S., Pavitt,
C., & Perse, E. M. (1991). Marital and
television schema and judgments of observed television marriages. Speech Communication Association,
Burggraf, C. S., & Pavitt,
C. (1991). Understanding on varying levels of
abstraction and its association with marital satisfaction. Speech Communication Association,
Perse, E. M., Pavitt,
C., & Burggraf, C. S. (1991). Effects of color
and black-and-white programs on activation of pro- and anti-social
schemata. Speech Communication
Association,
Pavitt, C., & Perse,
E. M. (1991). The measurement of stability in
communication-relevant implicit theories: A new issue to argue about. International Communication Association, Chicago.
Pavitt, C. (1990). Instructional
implications of the social cognitive process in small discussion groups. Eastern Communication Association,
Burggraf, C. S., Pavitt,
C., & Perse, E. M. (1990). Further
explorations of the relationship between implicit theories of marriage and
perceptions of marriage on television.
Eastern Communication Association,
Binda, M., Burggraf,
C. S., & Pavitt, C. (1990). The health belief
model and theory of reasoned action as predictors of health maintenance
activities. Eastern Communication
Association,
Pavitt, C. (1989). The dimensional
structure of communicative competence and style measures: Is it
"ubiquitous"? Eastern Communication Association,
Pavitt, C. (1989). Practical
scientific explanation.
Pavitt, C. (1984). From communicator's
behavior to observer's competence judgment: Is a single or multistage
processing model sufficient? Eastern
Communication Association,
Pavitt, C. & Penrod,
S. (1983). Perceived trait/behavior consistency
for specific and prototypical persons. American Psychological Association,
Pavitt, C. (1983). Cognition,
communication, and coorientation: The role of belief
structure similarity and amount of communication in accuracy of
perception. International Communication
Association, Dallas.
Pavitt, C. (1982). Conceptual issues
in the communication/coorientational accuracy
relationship. Speech Communication
Association,
Pavitt, C. (1980). A test of two
models of coorientation: The effect of task and disagreement level on
communication and accuracy in dyadic discussions. Speech Communication Association,
Invited
Addresses
Panel Member, Revisiting
Central Questions of Theory and Epistemology, National Communication Association convention, 2004.
Panel Member, When is a Group a >Group=: Dialoguing about the Domain of the Proverbial Animal, National Communication
Association convention, 2004.
A Review of Research on Group Discussion Procedure:
The First Hundred Years. Department of Communication,
Panel Member, Woolbert
Award Presentation, Speech Communication Association convention,
"White Faculty at Black
Universities." Tri-State Communication
Association convention,
"The Structure and Function of
Implicit Theories of Communicative Competence." Department of Communication and Theater,
Honors
and Awards
Third-ranked paper,
Interpersonal/Organizational Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association
convention,
Special commendation from
Information Systems Division of International Communication Association for
contributions, 1982.
Second-ranked student paper,
Interpersonal Communication Division, International Communication Association
convention,
First-ranked student paper,
Interpersonal/Small Group Interaction Division, Speech Communication
Association convention,
Grants
For the study of interpersonal
negotiation, $700 grant-in-aid from the
For the study of small group
procedure, $1000 grant-in-aid from the
For the study of perception of small group
leadership, $250 grant-in-aid from the College of Arts and Science, University
of Delaware, 1989; $650 grant-in-aid from the College of Arts and Science,
University of Delaware, 1990; $1200 grant-in-aid from the College of Arts and
Science, University of Delaware, 1992.
For the study of the dimensional structure of
communication competence and style measures, $400 grant-in-aid from the College
of Arts and Science, University of Delaware, 1987.
University
Service
Member, University Committee on Undergraduate
Curriculum, 1991-1994, 2003-2006
Member, University Faculty
Senate, 1996-2001
Member, University Rules
Committee, 2000-2002
Member, College Committee on
Special Academic Programs, 1992-1995
Chair, College Committee on
Special Academic Programs, 1995-2000
Member, College Steering
Committee, 1995-2000
Departmental
Service
Departmental director of
undergraduate studies, 2003-present
Faculty assessment fellow
and department assessment coordinator, 2006-present
Course\program revision
proposal coordinator, 1996-2003
Chair, workload policy
committee, 2003-2004
Chair,
faculty review committee, 2004.
2006
Chair, promotion and tenure
committee, 2005
Departmental safety chair,
2003-present
Faculty advisor, departmental
alumni newsletter internship, 1992
Member of departmental
committees-of-the-whole
Graduate
program planning, 1987
Faculty
search chair, 2002
Faculty
search, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006
Workload
policy, 1990-1992
Department
evaluation, 1997, 2005
Member of department
committees
Faculty
review, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2003
Class
size, 1993-1994
Communication
minor, 1994
Revision
of promotion and tenure document, 1994, 2004
Promotion
and tenure, 1994, 2000, 2005
Doctoral/master_s proposal pre-planning, 1999
Interpersonal/organizational committee-of-the-whole
on Curriculum, 1988-present
Research on effect of videotaping on public
communication performance, 1988-1990
Professional
Service
Editorial Board:
Communication Monographs, 2001-present
Communication Research, 1996-present
Communication Research Reports, 1999-present
Communication Theory, 2000-present
Handbook of Group Communication Theory and Research, 1997
Human Communication Research, 2001-2003, 2005-present
Journal of Communication, 2005-present
Paper Reviewer (not on editorial board):
Communication Quarterly
Communication Studies
Electronic Journal of Communication
European Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of Applied Communication Research
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Media
Psychology
Small Group Research
Western Journal of Communication
Service to National (formerly Speech) Communication Association
Membership Representative for
Nominating Committee Member, Interpersonal
Interaction Division, 1991
Convention Panel Chair, Mass Communication Division,
1991
Paper reader, Mass Communication Division, 1994
Paper
reader, Group Communication Division, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006
Awards
committee, Group Communication Division, 2005-2007 (chair, 2007)
Service to International Communication Association
Nominated for Secretary, Information Systems
Division, 1988
By-Laws Committee,
Language and Social Interaction Interest Group, 1991-1992
Paper reader, Language and
Social Interaction Interest Group, 1992
Panel respondent,
Interpersonal Communication Division, 1993
Paper reader, Information
Systems Division, 1993-2004