Laura Guerrero

Selected Publications

Books:

Guerrero, L. K., & McEwan, B. (2022). Interpersonal encounters: Connecting through communication. Sage.

Burgoon, J. K., Manusov, V., & Guerrero, L. K. (2022). Nonverbal communication (2nd ed.). Routledge.

Guerrero, L.K., Andersen, P. A., & Afifi, W. A. (2021). Close encounters: Communication in relationships (6th ed.). Sage. (First edition published in 1999).

Guerrero, L. K., & Hecht, M. L. (2008). The nonverbal communication reader: Classic and contemporary readings (3rd ed.). Waveland Press.  

Guerrero, L. K., & Floyd, K. (2006). Nonverbal communication in close relationships. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Part of the LEA Series on Personal Relationships) 

Andersen, P. A., & Guerrero, L. K. (Eds.), (1998).  Handbook of communication and emotion: Research, theory, contexts, and applications.  Academic Press.

Representative Articles and Chapters:

Hansom, A. M., & Guerrero, L. K. (2025). Attachment Style During a Partner’s Deployment with the United States Navy: Associations with Relational Satisfaction, Stress, and Changes over Time. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Hommadova Lu, A., & Guerrero, L. K. (2023). Effects of nonverbal immediacy and similarity on perceptions of likability and friendship potential: first impressions of US and Middle Eastern students on Zoom. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47(3), 321-344.

Guerrero, L. K. (2021). Attachment theory: A communication perspective. In Engaging theories in interpersonal communication (pp. 299-313). Routledge.

Guerrero, L. K. (2020). Conflict style associations with cooperativeness, directness, and relational satisfaction: A case for a six-style typology. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 13, 24-33.

Guerrero, L. K. (2017). Attachment theory in families: The role of communication. In Engaging theories in family communication (pp. 38-50). Routledge.

Guerrero, L. K. (2014). Jealousy and relational satisfaction: Actor effects, partner effects, and the mediating role of destructive communicative responses to jealousy. Western Journal of Communication, 78, 586-611.

Guerrero, L. K. (2013). Emotion and communication in conflict interaction. The SAGE handbook of conflict communication (2nd ed.),105-133.

Guerrero, L. K., & Andersen, P. A. (2013). The dark side of jealousy and envy: Desire, delusion, desperation, and destructive communication. In The dark side of close relationships (pp. 33-70). Routledge.

La Valley, A. G., & Guerrero, L. K. (2012). Perceptions of conflict behavior and relational satisfaction in adult parent-child relationships: A dyadic analysis from an attachment perspective. Communication Research, 39¸ 48-79.

Guerrero, L. K., Hannawa, A. F., & Babin, B. A. (2011). The Communicative Responses to Jealousy scale: Revision, empirical validation, and associations with relational satisfaction. Communication Methods and Measures, 5, 223-249.

Guerrero, L. K., Farinelli, L., & McEwan, B. (2009). Attachment and relational satisfaction: The mediating effect of emotional communication. Communication Monographs, 76, 487-514. 

Guerrero, L. K., La Valley, A. G., & Farinelli, L. (2008). The experience and expression of anger, guilt, and sadness in marriage: An equity theory explanation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 25, 699-724.

Bachman, G. F., & Guerrero, L. K. (2006). An expectancy violations analysis of relational quality and communicative responses following hurtful events in dating relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 23, 943-963.

Guerrero, L. K., Trost, M. L., & Yoshimura, S. M. (2005). Emotion and communication in the context of romantic jealousy. Personal Relationships, 12, 233-252.

Guerrero, L. K., Spitzberg, B. H., & Yoshimura, S. M. (2004). Sexual and emotional jealousy. In The handbook of sexuality in close relationships (pp. 311-345). Psychology Press.

Jones, S. M., & Guerrero, L. K. (2001). The effects of nonverbal immediacy and verbal person-centeredness in the emotional support process. Human Communication Research, 27, 567-596.

Guerrero, L. K., Jones, S. M., & Burgoon, J. K. (2000). Responses to nonverbal intimacy change in romantic dyads:  Effects of behavioral valence and expectancy violation. Communication Monographs, 67, 325-346.

Gross, M. A., & Guerrero, L. K. (2000).  Appropriateness and effectiveness of organizational conflict styles:  An application of the competence model to Rahim's conflict inventory. International Journal of Conflict, 11, 200-226.

Guerrero, L. K. (1997).  Nonverbal involvement across interactions with same-sex friends, opposite-sex friends, and romantic partners: Consistency or change?  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 14, 31-58.  

Guerrero, L. K. (1996).  Attachment-style differences in intimacy and involvement:  A test of the four-category model.  Communication Monographs, 63, 269-292.  

*A complete list of publications can be found in Guerrero's vita