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The theory explicated herein postulates that communication is central to the initiation, maintenance, and repair of mentoring relationships. The initiation of mentoring is likened to the initiation of friendships and love relationships in terms of communicating appropriate relational expectations. Because the mentor has the most power in a mentoring relationship, the protégé is anticipated to direct more communicative attempts toward initiating, maintaining, and repairing the relationship than the mentor. Protégées are proposed to be more likely than males to use communicative strategies in achieving their mentoring goals. Mentors are proposed to use communication to initiate, maintain, and repair mentoring relationships if they are invested in the success of their protégés.

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This study examined the effects of self-monitoring and rehearsal on the ability of observers to detect deception and on the behavioralcorrelates of deception. It was hypothesized that observers would be more accurate at detecting deception perpetrated by low self-monitors than by high self-monitors. with the dfference particularly pronounced when messages were rehearsed. In addition, low selfmonitors communicating spontaneously were expected to display greater rates of verbal and nonverbal responding than high self-monitors who planned their communications. Sixteen high and low self-monitors both lied and told the truth (either spontaneously or after 20-minute rehearsals) regarding their feelings while viewing slides ofpleasant landscapes and of disfigured burn victims. Analysis of the responses of the 151 observers who made veracity judgments supported the hypothesis concerning accuracy of deception detection. Coding of 10 verbal and nonverbal behaviors revealed that unrehearsed low self-monitors displayed signijicantly greater pause and nonjluency rates than rehearsed high self-monitors. Additionalfindings are reported regarding the effects of self-monitoring, rehearsal, and truthful versus deceptive communication on the behavioral correlates of deception.Two major avenues of inquiry have been pursued in deception research. First, a substantial body of literature has dealt with the ability of persons to detect deceptive messages originating from relative strangers. Most of these studies indicate that people are not very accurate in their