Communication Apprehension and Competence Division
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Interest Group Awards
2025
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA’s large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Chris R. Sawyer, “Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity and Recovery: A Component Analysis of Public Speaking State Anxiety Waveforms” |
| 2015 | Kevin T. Jones and Jeff Birdsell, “Embracing Opportunities to Change Lives: Teaching At-Risk High School Students Communication Competence Skills through Facework and Improved Self-Monitoring” |
| 2015 | Suzanne Prentiss, “Embracing Opportunities to Reduce Speech Anxiety in the Basic Course Classroom: Data analysis and implications for instructional initiatives” |
| 2015 | James Keaten, Lynne Kelly, and Diana M. Millette, “The Impact of Reticence on Usage of Text Messaging for Everyday Talk” |
| 2014 | Lynne Kelly, James Keaten, and Diane Millette, “The Impact of Reticence and Channel Usage on Small Talk Attitudes, Behavior, and Self-Perceived Competence” |
| 2014 | Heather Carmack and Jocelyn DeGroot, “Development and Validation of the Communication Apprehension about Death Scale” |
| 2014 | Michale Hazel and Chia-Fang Hsu, “Understanding Online Writing Apprehension: An Examination of Temperament, Motivation, Fear of Negative Evaluation and Self-Perceived Writing Competence” |
| 2014 | Joshua Westwick, Karla Hunter, and Laurie Haleta, “The Digital-Divide: Re-Examining Self-Perceived Communication Competency in Face-to-Face and Online Public Speaking Sections” |
| 2012 | Lynne Kelly, James Keaten, and Diane Millette, “’I’ll Text, Talk if I Must, but Don’t Expect Me to Meet with You!’: The Impact of Reticence and Fear of Negative Evaluation on Channel Choice” |
| 2012 | Michael Hazel, James Keaten and Lynne Kelly, “The Impact of Personality Temperament on Communication Reticence and Fear of Negative Evaluation” |
| 2012 | Stephen Croucher, Colleen Malachowski, and Melanie Booth-Butterfield, “An Exploration of Anxiety-provoking Discussion Topics in Interpersonal Relationships” |
Top Article of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Charles W. Choi, James M. Honeycutt, and Graham D. Bodie “Effects of Imagined Interactions and Rehearsal on Speaking Performance,” Communication Education 64 (2015): 25-44 |
| 2014 | Sandy Hsu |
Outstanding Service Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Amber Finn |