William F. Sharkey, PhD

Professor
Undergraduate Chair
Department of Speech
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2560 Campus Rd.,
George Hall 326
Honolulu, HI 96822

Office
George Hall 332
ph: 808-956-8407
fax: 808-956-3947
email:
sharkey@hawaii.edu

Publications

Kim, M.S., Kam, K.Y., Sharkey, W.F., & Singelis, T.M. (2008/in press). "Deception: Moral transgression or social necessity?": Cultural-relativity of deception motivations and perceptions of deceptive communication. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1, 23-50.

Kim, M.S., Kam, K.Y., Sharkey, W.F., & Singelis, T.M. (in press). Culture and deception. Communication Currents.

Tarr, N. D., Kim, M. S., & Sharkey, W. F. (2005). The effects of self-construals and embarrassability on predicament response strategies. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29, 497-520. (lead article)

Sharkey, W. F., Park, H. S., & Kim, R. (2004). Intentional self-embarrassment. Communication Studies, 55, 379-399.

Sharkey, W. F., Kim, M. S., & Diggs, R. (2001). Intentional embarrassment: A look at embarrassors’ and targets’ perspectives. Personality and Individual Differences, 31, 1261-1272.

Kim, M. S., Klingle, R. S., Sharkey, W. F., Park, H. S., Smith, D. H., & Cai, D. (2000). A test of a cultural model of patient’s motivation for verbal communication in patient-doctor interactions. Communication Monographs, 67, 262-283.

Sharkey, W. F., Asamoto, P., Tokunaga, C., Haraguchi, G., & McFaddon-Robar, T. (2000). Hand gestures of blind and sighted interactants. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 94, 549-563. (lead article)

Sharkey, W. F., & Kim, M. S. (2000). The effect of embarrassability on perceived importance of conversational constraints during bind interactions. Human Communication, 3, 29-40.

Singelis, T. M., Bond, M. H., Sharkey, W. F., & Lai, S. Y. (1999). Unpackaging culture’s influence on self-esteem and embarrassability: The role of self-construals. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30, 315-341.

Park, H. S., Levine, T. R., & Sharkey, W. F. (1998). Self-construal and the attitudinal and normative determinants of behavioral intention: A test of the theory of reasoned action. Communication Studies, 49, 196-208.

Sharkey, W. F., Kulp, C., Carpenter, B. M., Lee, C., & Rodillas, U. (1997). Embarrassment: The effects of embarrassor and target perceptions. Communication Research Reports, 14, 460-469.

Sharkey, W. F. (1997). Why would anyone want to intentionally embarrass me. In R. Kowalski (Ed.), Aversive interpersonal behaviors (pp. 57-90). New York: Plenum.

Sharkey, W. F., & Singelis, T. M. (1995). Embarrassability and self-construal: A theoretical integration. Personality and Individual Differences, 19, 919-926.

Singelis, T. M., & Sharkey, W. F. (1995). Culture, self-construal, and embarrassability. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 26, 622-644.

Kim, M. S., & Sharkey, W. F. (1995). Independent and interdependent construals of self: Explaining cultural patterns of interpersonal communication in multi-cultural organizational settings. Communication Quarterly, 43, 20-38.

Kim, M. S., Sharkey, W. F., & Singelis, T. M. (1994). The relationship between individuals' self-construals and perceived importance of interactive constraints. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 18, 117-140.

Sharkey, W. F. (1993). A deaf child born to hearing parents: Communicative disruptions, implications and adjustments. Family Perspective, 27, 251-274.

Sharkey, W. F. (1993). Who embarrasses whom?: Relational and sex differences in the use of intentional embarrassment. In P. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Interpersonal communication: Evolving interpersonal relationships (pp. 147-168). Hillsdale, NJ: LEA.

Sharkey, W. F., & Hikins, J. W. (1993). Edward Miner Gallaudet's "Remarks on the combined system:" An analysis of the "preservative" function of rhetoric of education. Communication Education, 42, 50-69.

Sharkey, W. F. (1992). Use of and responses to intentional embarrassment. Communication Studies, 43, 257-275.

Sharkey, W. F. (1991). Intentional embarrassment: Goals, tactics and consequences. In W. R. Cupach & S. Metts (Eds.), Advances in interpersonal communication research 1991: Proceedings of the annual conference of the Western States Communication Association (pp. 105-128). Normal, IL: Personal Relationships Research Group.

Sharkey, W. F., & Stafford, L. (1990). Responses to embarrassment. Human Communication Research, 17, 315-342.

Sharkey, W. F., & Stafford, L. (1990). Turn-taking resources employed by congenitally blind conversers. Communication Studies, 41, 161-182.

Waldron, V. R., Cegala, D. J., Sharkey, W. F., & Teboul, B. (1990). Cognitive and tactical dimensions of conversational goal management. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 9, 101-118. Also found in: (1990). K. Tracy & N. Coupland (Eds), Multiple goals in discourse (pp. 101-118). Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.

Stafford, L., Burggraf, C. S., & Sharkey, W. F. (1987). Conversational memory: The effects of time, recall, mode, and memory expectancies on remembrances of natural conversations. Human Communication Research, 14, 203-229.