The affinity‐seeking function of communication

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• Robert A. Bell is a doctoral student at the University of Texas, Austin, and John A. Daly is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the same university. The authors express their appreciation to Mark Knapp for providing valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper and to Sue Koch for assisting in data coding.
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