Speech: Interpersonal Communication: Find Books

Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene ten years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book.

This is your ideal guide to understanding other people, and helping them understand you. Body language is a critical component of good communication, and often conveys a bigger message than the words you say. This book teaches you how to interpret what people really mean by observing their posture, gestures, eye movements, and more, and holds up a mirror to give you a clear idea of how you're being interpreted yourself.

This guide to human body language explains how to decipher nonverbal communication, how to read other people's thoughts and emotions through their gestures, and how to insure that one's own gestures are sending the right message.

This book shows how to get rid of the negative connotations and use this type of communication as a vehicle for growth.

Learn how to: Overcome fear of rejection; Be confident with people you don't know; Deal with difficult situations; Get better outcomes from disputes; and more.

This introductory text explores the socio-cultural surround in which interpersonal communication takes place, and considers the interface between interpersonal and mass communication.

Major themes covered: 1) The importance of understanding how we communicate 2) The dangers of oversimplified analysis 3) The impact of specific behaviours and techniques. This is a fully revised and updated second edition.

A clear and concise overview of state-of-the-art research into emotion focusing on cognitive appraisal, bodily changes, action tendencies and expressive displays.

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. The study considers the triggering of impoliteness; explores the dynamic progression of impolite exchanges, and examines the way in which such exchanges come to some form of resolution.

This volume brings together leading investigators who integrate two distinct research domains in social psychology--people's internal worlds and their close relationships. Contributors present compelling findings on the bidirectional interplay between internal processes, such as self-esteem and self-regulation, and relationship processes, such as how positively partners view each other, whether they are dependent on each other, and the level of excitement in the relationship.

John Bowlby Memorial Lecture
Drawn from the John Bowlby Memorial Conference, the theme of this book addresses the often hidden and ignored subject of attachment, race, and culture.