This paper reviews Immediacy Theory which posits a mechanism making schizophrenic behavior preponderantly controlled by stimuli immediate in the patient’s environment. It reviewed all studies of schizophrenia in the 2003 year of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Of those 12 studies, nine were found to confirm that mechanism and three not to be relevant.

This paper presents material in support of the position that risk management in oil and gas (O&G) production is characterized by a loss of immediacy to the production process. We illustrate how loss of immediacy is an outcome of the O&G information infrastructure's mediation of the production process, and how engineers cope with the loss of immediacy when managing risk situations.

This study sought to examine instructor immediacy and presence in an online learning environment in relation to student affective learning, cognition, and motivation. It found a statistically significant positive relationship between instructor immediacy and presence. It also found that the linear combination of instructor immediacy and presence is a statistically significant predictor of stude...

The traditional focus in engineering syllabi on technical abilities has been well substantiated by the type of expertise required in industrial processes. However, the emerging requirements in industrial operating environments necessitate a more personal configuration of competencies facilitating both intrapersonal and interpersonal processes at workplace. The concomitant reform of engineering ...

This study examines the use of instant messaging (IM) for student-teacher communication in distance education (DE) courses. IM is a simple Internet communication tool that may reduce the sources of dissatisfaction cited by many DE students and improve their performance, perception of the amount of information learned, and satisfaction with a class. As a relatively synchronous communication tool...

Immediacy was examined in a 17-session case of brief therapy with a bright, articulate, inner-city, African American female client seeing an interpersonally oriented, White, male therapist. The main types of therapist immediacy were reinforcing the client for in-session behavior, inviting the client to collaborate, inquiring about client reactions to therapy, and reminding the client that it wa...