Anita Vangelisti currently teaches courses at the University of Texas at Austin on communication in personal relationships, family communication, communication and emotion, empirical research methods, and interaction analysis. Her work focuses on how communication affects, and is affected by, emotions and interpretive processes such as attribution. She has published articles in journals such as Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personal Relationships, Family Relations, Journal of Adolescent Research, and Journal of Social and