Leanne Knobloch

Assistant Professor

Website: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/knobl/www/home.html

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Research Interests: Interpersonal communication; communication within close relationships; developmental trajectories of close relationships; the experience of cognition and emotion within close relationships.

Current Research: Professor Knobloch’s research seeks to understand how people’s interpersonal communication behavior shapes and reflects their understandings of their close relationships. Within that general framework, her work focuses specifically on the ways partners negotiate relationship development, relational uncertainty, and interdependence within romantic relationships. Her current projects examine how people (a) talk about their relationships, (b) process information about their relationships, and (c) experience and express emotion within their relationships.

Representative Recent Publications:

Knobloch, L.K. & Carpenter, K.E., (in press). Topic avoidance within developing romantic relationships: Associations with intimacy and relational uncertainty. Communication Research.

Knobloch, L.K., & Solomon, D.H. (in press-a). Interference and facilitation from partners in the development of interdependence within romantic relationships. Personal Relationships.

Knobloch, L.K., & Solomon, D.H. (in press-b). Manifestations of relationship conceptualizations in conversation. Human Communication Research.

Knobloch, L. K., & Solomon, D. H. (2002a). Information seeking beyond initial interaction: Negotiating relational uncertainty within close relationships. Human Communication Research, 28, 243-257.

Knobloch, L. K., & Solomon, D. H. (2002b). Intimacy and the magnitude and experience of episodic relational uncertainty within romantic relationships. Personal Relationships, 9, 457-478.