Judee K. Burgoon (born 1948) is a professor of communication, family studies and human development at the University of Arizona, where she serves as director of research for the Center for the Management of Information and site director for the NSF-sponsored Center for Identification Technology Research.
A year later, she began working toward a master's degree in Speech Communication from Illinois State University, which she completed in 1972.
Her main emphasis is in interpersonal communication processes and outcomes, expectancy violations, deception, nonverbal relational messages, conversation involvement and dominance, and dyadic adaptation patterns.
Grounded in the latest multidisciplinary research and theory, Nonverbal Communication strives to remain very practical, providing both information and application to aid in comprehension.
[11] Developed in 1995 by Burgoon, Stern & Dillman,[12] "Interaction Adaptation Theory," this theory "predicts and explains how, when, and why people adapt to another's verbal and nonverbal communication (→ Nonverbal Communication and Culture) in similar or dissimilar ways.
Simultaneously, communication receivers try to unveil or detect the validity of that information, causing suspicion about whether or not the sender is being deceitful.
[19] In 2006 Burgoon was honored by the International Communication Association (ICA) with the Steven H. Chaffee Career Productivity Award.
"[21] The ICA also states that "the selection committee favors research that is original, asks conceptually rich questions, and offers empirically sound evidence.
The research must have comprised multiple projects and publications and generated second-generation work among students and other scholars.
"[21] Along with the prize, Burgoon was awarded $1000 at the ICA's 56th annual international conference in Dresden, Germany.
In addition to her many achievements, a recent survey named her the most prolific female scholar in the field of communication of the 20th century.