1st Edition

The Cognitive Bases of Interpersonal Communication

Edited By Dean E. Hewes Copyright 1995
270 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Our interpretations of the world we live in, and the people and institutions that comprise it, are acquired through complex interactions among what we believe to be true, what the world is, and/or what others think it is. Understanding those complex interactions is one of the most important goals of the social sciences. Of the many disciplines that have contributed to that understanding, two take... Read more
Contents: D.E. Hewes, Introduction. Part I:Interpersonal Communication: Cognitive Social Psychologists' Perspective. R.S. Wyer, Jr., D.H. Gruenfeld, Information Processing in Interpersonal Communication. Part II:The Cognitive Psychological Perspective Inside Interpersonal Communication Theory. J.O. Greene, An Action-Assembly Perspective on Verbal and Nonverbal Message Production: A Dancer's Message Unveiled. S.W. Smith, Perceptual Processing of Nonverbal-Relational Messages. D.E. Hewes, Cognitive Processing of Problematic Messages: Reinterpreting to "Unbias" Texts. Part III:Interpersonal Communication From an Artificial Intelligence Perspective. C.R. Berger, A Plan-Based Approach to Strategic Communication. K. Kellermann, The Conversation MOP: A Model of Patterned and Pliable Behavior. Part IV:The Cognitive Approach to Interpersonal Communication: A Philosophical Critique. R.D. McPhee, Cognitive Perspectives on Communication: Interpretive and Critical Responses.

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Hewes, Dean E.

"Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and researchers will find this work seminal and stimulating."
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