a.vangelisti@mail.utexas.edu
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College: Communication

Home Department: Communication Studies

Education: Ph D, University of Texas at Austin

Research interests:Interpersonal communication among family members and between romantic partners; how communication affects, and is affected by, emotions and interpretive processes such as attribution; family communication; empirical research methods; interaction analysis.

Courses taught:
Undergraduate Courses:

CMS 358 Communication and Personal Relationships (Spring 2005) CMS 357 Family Communication (Fall 2004)

Graduate Courses:

CMS 386P Communication In Personal Relationships (Spring 2005) CMS 386S Comm, Cognition and Emotion (Fall 2004) CMS 386P Family Communication (Spring 2004) CMS 386N Research Methods (Fall 2003)

Awards/Honors: Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Family Communication, National Communication Association, 2004 Outstanding Teaching Award, International Association of Relationship Research, 2002 Franklin H. Knower Article Award, Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2000 Dean's Fellow, College of Communication, 2000

Recent Publications:Vangelisti, A. L., and Gerstenberger, M. (2004). Communication and marital infidelity. In G. Allan, J. Duncombe, K. Harrison, and D. Marsden (Eds.), The state of affairs (pp. 59- 78). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Vangelisti, A. L., Young, S. L., Carpenter-Theune, K., and Alexander, A. L. (2005). Why does it hurt?: The perceived causes of hurt feelings. Communication Research, 32, 443-477. Vangelisti, A. L. (2006). Family communication theories: Variations and challenges. In D.O. Braithwaite and L. A. Baxter (Eds.), Engaging theories in family communication: Multiple perspectives (pp.xi-xviii) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Vangelisti, A. L., and Bippus, A. M. (in press). Communicating friendship. In R. Cohen, G. Pollock, and R. Schulman (Eds.), Friends and friendship. Madison, CT: International Universities Press. Anita L. Vangelisti August 2005 7 Caughlin, J. P., and Vangelisti, A. L. (in press). Conflict in dating and romantic relationships. In J. Oetzel and S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.), The Sage handbook of conflict communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Vangelisti, A. L. (in press). Hurtful interactions and the dissolution of intimacy. In M. A. Fine and J. H. Harvey (Eds.), Handbook of divorce and relationship dissolution. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Vangelisti, A. L. (in press). Relationship dissolution: Antecedents, processes, and consequences. In P. Noller and J. A. Feeney (Eds.), Close relationships. London: Psychology Press. Sillars, A. L., and Vangelisti, A. L. (in press). Communication: Basic properties and their relevance to relationship research. In A. L. Vangelisti and D. Perlman (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of personal relationships. New York: Cambridge University Press.