ABSTRACT
This study examines the relationship among teachers’ perceptions of communicator style, children’s sex, and social attractiveness to peers and teachers. This investigation was undertaken in response to the many reactions received when presenting the results of an earlier study (Stohl, 1981). In that paper a relationship was reported between children’s communicator style and their social attractiveness to peers and teachers. Teachers were more attracted to children they perceived to have a style of communication that is attentive, relaxed, and friendly, whereas children preferred peers who communicate in a more contentious, impression-leaving, dramatic, animated, and open style.
