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Miscommunication
Miscommunication takes a fascinating look at the way we communicate, and makes a distinct contribution to understanding miscommunication and its remedies.
Communication Theory
Communication is the most complex and elevating achievement of human beings. Most people spend up to 70 percent of our waking hours engaged in some form of communication. Listening and responding to the messages of others occupies much of this time; the rest is taken up by talking, reading, and writing. An additional consideration is the rich assortment of nonverbal cues humans share, which also constitute a form of communication. All together, the stream of verbal and nonverbal information that bombards our senses is composed of as many as 2,000 distinguishable units of interaction in a single day. The kinds of interaction change constantly: morning greetings, cereal labels, bus signs, char...
Human Conflict
Human Conflict distinguishes between "effective" and "ineffective" forms of face-to-face interaction in cases where agreement, disagreement, understanding, or misunderstanding prevail. This well-researched study of miscommunication seeks to identify the basic dynamics at work in encounters that somehow fall short of success in a particularly telling or striking manner. Following an in-depth look at the interplay of cognitive appraisals, value orientations, and social identity in the construction of everyday reality, the book then analyzes social constructions that contribute to a wider ability to fashion working agreements and mutual understanding. It also examines a wide spectrum of encounters where pairs reporting "hurt and harm" find themselves mutually engaged in strategic mechanisms of repair, renewal, and restoration. Scholars of conflict study, mediators, and others interested in the cognitive processes behind agreement and understanding will want to read this book.
Human Survival
Human Survival is subject to a delicate balance between physical laws and social influence. Optimum conditions require adaptation to lawful constraints, resilient social bonds, and secure sites of collective habitation. Survivability tests the capacities of living organisms to tolerate stress, strife and strain in daily life. Human struggle is revealed in a shared resolve to live with nature and nurture in a balanced state of co-existence. Generative life expectations promote optimistic views of longevity. Abiding life force opens up diverse options to live long and live well. Personal competence and relational compatibility test the conjunctive strength of working agreement and mutual understanding against the disjunctive weakness of working disagreement and mutual misunderstanding. The search for a good life must be earned, not presumed, through labor-intensive efforts to secure egalitarian relations with significant others. Constructive alliances maximize gain, minimize loss, and enable resourceful persons to discover purpose, meaning and fulfillment of their highest aspirations.
Communication Theory
An introduction to the theories of information and codes. The authors exploit the connection to give a self-contained treatment relating the probabilistic and algebraic viewpoints. A background in discrete probability theory is required; the necessary Galois theory is developed as needed.
Optimal Human Relations
This volume deals with the human desire to live the good life, defined as seeking that which "is good, optimal, or ultimately desirable." While there may be different ways of achieving this goal, the pathways are similar in some ways. In exploring the ways in which these paths cross, Mortensen asserts that an ability to sustain optimal human relations--that is, healthy communication, interpersonal compatibility, and prosocial influence--is a standard against which the good life can be measured. Optimal Human Relations explores the favorable conditions for human beings to live the best possible way of life imaginable; it both argues the case for and documents recent advances in the study of s...
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Speaking Professionally
Updated with new and current examples throughout, this concise guide is a rich resource for anyone who wants to become more effective in speaking settings. It covers all the basics and identifies essential principles that will help readers to efficiently prepare, deliver, and evaluate presentations.
Human Communication Handbook
Contains games and structured exercises designed to develop familiarity with the dynamics of personal, social, and mass communication
