Three experiments examined the relationships among plan complexity, access to planned actions, and verbalfluency while pursuinga persuasiongoal. Consistent with theoretical expectations, complex planners were less fluent than less complex planners under high access conditions. Persons whose access was raised were less fluent than those whose access was not raised. A second experiment showed that reducedfluency was not induced by lowering of self-confidence. The third experiment replicated thefindings of the second experiment and demonstrated that the questioning procedure used to raise access in the first two experiments produced increases in plan complexity as suggested by theo y.These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for the study of strategic communication.ver the past ten years, there has been a virtual explosion in the amount of research focused on strategies for accomp-0 lishing all manner of social goals. Communication researchers have delineated strategies for gaining compliance (Cody,

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