Psychology of Communication

ISBN-13: 9783031470905 / Angielski

Jessica Röhner; Astrid Schütz

Spis treści

1.       Definitions

1.1   What is communication?

1.2   What is communication competency?

1.3   What is communication psychology?

1.4   Summary and book recommendations

References

 

2.       Classical communication models

2.1   An overview on models of communication

2.2   Communication model by Shannon and Weaver

2.3   Communication model by Schulz von Thun

2.4   Maxim of communication by Grice

2.5   Rules for successful communication by Rogers

2.6   Communication model by Watzlawick

2.7   Summary and book recommendations

1.1   References

 

2.       An integrative communication model of Hargie and collegues

2.1   Basics

2.2   Characteristics of the person

2.3   Characteristics of the situation

2.4   Goals

2.5   Mediating processes

2.5.1.1   Cognitive processes

2.5.1.2   Affective processes

2.6   Response behavior

2.7   Feedback

2.8   Perception

2.9   Summary and book recommendations

References

 

3.       Nonverbal communication

3.1   Haptic signals

3.2   Body language

3.2.1.1   Gestures

3.2.1.2   Head movements

3.2.1.3   Body posture

3.2.1.4   Eye contact

3.2.1.5   Facial expression

3.3   Proxemics

3.4   Physical characteristics

3.5   Summary and book recommendations

References

 

4.       Verbal communication

4.1   Listening

4.2   Questions

4.3   Explanations

4.4   Laughing and humor

4.5   Summary and book recommendations

References

 

5.       Forms of communication

5.1   Intrapersonal communication

5.2   Interpersonal communication

5.2.1.1   Individual communication

5.2.1.2   Mass communication

5.3   Summary and book recommendations

References

 

Index of persons

Index of subjects

 

 

O autorze

Dr. Jessica Röhner, is a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Bamberg, Germany. She studies faking behavior, the validity of indirect and direct assessment procedures, and diffusion model analyses. She has a Ph.D. (with a minor in philosophy) from Technical University of Chemnitz. In 2015 she was awarded the Hogrefe-Poster-Award on Psychological Assessment. Dr. Röhner is the author or coauthor of  7 monographs, 19 book chapters or encyclopaedia entries, and 10 papers in refereed scientific journals.

Prof Astrid Schütz, is a professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Bamberg, Germany, where she leads the Personality Psychology and Assessment research group as well as the Competence Center for Applied Personnel Psychology. She studies the impact of personality and situational factors on social behavior. She is interested in how individual views and situational constraints shape social interaction – and how social interactions in turn affect well-being and effectiveness. She has developed qualitative and quantitative tools to measure self-concept, (implicit) attitudes, and interactive behavior. In using laboratory research as well as naturalistic studies she aims at better understanding the interplay of self-views and self-presentation with well-being and performance. She is also the University’s officer for gender fairness and served as the University’s Vice President (in the field of research and academic careers) from 2012 to 2015. She has been a professor of psychology at Chemnitz University of Technology from 1999-2011 and a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia, Case Western Reserve University, Universidad de Huelva, and the University of Southampton before she joined the University of Bamberg in 2011. Her current research interests includes personality differences and self-presentation as well as social interaction in face-to-face and virtual environments. Prof. Schütz authored or co-authored 14 books and 3 psychometric tests, co-edited 6 books or journal volumes, and authored or co-authored over 100 book chapters or encyclopedia entries. She has over 110 papers in refereed journals and over 160 conference presentations Her publications received over 7200 citations (h-index 41 in google scholar). She is associate editor of the Journal of Individual Differences and Frontiers in Psychology and member of the editorial board of Self and Identity. She has received funding for more than 10 research projects and has been awarded a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and has served as member of the Task force on European Research Funding of the German Rectors‘ Conference.

Blurb

Available to English readers for the first time, this new edition and translation of the successful German book explains how human communication works in an approachable, understandable way. It begins by explaining the central terms and themes of the established communication models by Watzlawick, Schulz von Thun, and Hargie and his colleagues; then continues by expanding on ideas of verbal and non-verbal communication; and finally ties these things together with a clearly structured summary of communication forms. Intercultural differences, stumbling blocks, and concrete fields of application are explored, while practical examples and discussion points throughout the book provide insightful overviews of the material to consolidate what’s been learned by the reader. Additionally, ancillary learning materials and end-of-chapter questions are available to test the reader’s knowledge.

 

This book will be useful to both students and professors of psychology as well as those in the field of communication studies, and anyone interested in learning more about the many faces of communication.