Gary A. Beck (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is Assistant Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University. His work has been published in Communication Monographs, Personal Relationships, and Journal of Social Psychology. Thomas J. Socha (PhD, University of Iowa) is Professor of Communication at Old Dominion University. He was founding editor of the Journal of Family Communication and was the recipient of the National Communication Association¿s (NCA) Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Family Communication Scholarship.