“…To provide a fair assessment of the dialogue, however, we must note that such reactive inputs were balanced by constructive reviews of significant SCT works (Balthrop, 1979;Cathcart, 1986;Combs, 1980;Eadie, 1982;Measell, 1982;Mickey, 1982), by refutations of the critics and updates of SCT developments (Bormann, 1982b(Bormann, , 1983a(Bormann, , 1983b(Bormann, , 1983c(Bormann, , 1985a(Bormann, , 1986(Bormann, ,1989, by text book explanations of SCT (Brock, Scott, & Chesebro, 1990;FOSS, FOSS, & Trapp, 1985;Frey, Botan, Friedman, & Kreps, 1991;Hart, 1990;Infante, Rancer, & Womack, 1990;Larson, 1992;Littlejohn, 1992;Rybacki & Rybacki, 1991;Smith, 1990;Trendholm, 1991), and, of course, by the continued publication of SCT studies (Bormann, 1982a(Bormann, , 1985bBormann, Kroll, Watters, & McFarland, 1984;Bormann, Pratt, & Putnam, 1978;Cragan & Cutbirth, 1984;Cragan & Shields, 1992;Doyle, 1985;Endres, 1989;Foss & Littlejohn, 1986;Heisey & Treblin, 1983;Hubbard, 1985;Koester, 1982;Kroll, 1983;Mayerle, 1987;McFarland, 1985;Nimmo & Combs, 1982;…”