Communication Research

Here is something I'm very proud of. Thank you Champ Ravirath. Champ Ravirath Yesterday at 2:00am  �  Bangkok, Thailand  �  ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? � Thesis � 267 pages �  Joseph DeVito  Your IC approach was published in Thailand as training methodology! See Translation

  Here is a list of 25 skills of interpersonal communication--25 things a competent interpersonal communicator should know how to do--that I used on the inside cover of my Interpersonal Messages book. But, I thought such a list might be useful more generally as a starting point for discussing what students can expect to learn to do or learn to do better than they now do it from a course in interpersonal communication. Needless to say the list is incomplete.   1.       Communicate with an awareness of how the interpersonal process really works. 2.       Communicate in intracultural and intercultural situations with cultural awareness and sensitivity. 3.       Increase self-awareness and self-esteem. 4.       Increase your accuracy in forming impressions of others and in managing the impressions you give to others. 5.       Regulate your listening bet...

I�ve assembled (and rewrote) some of my blog posts and a variety of other brief pieces into a book that I published with iUniverse, a subsidy publisher (recently acquired by Penguin, a division of Pearson), called 50 Communication Strategies. One of the advantages of publishing a book this way was that I didn�t need an agent. Textbook authors rarely have agents; in fact, I don�t know of one textbook author who does have an agent. The other great advantage is that you don�t have to write a proposal. There are also disadvantages to doing a book this way as well. But, on balance, the procedure was relatively painless and certainly fast moving.   They even set up a website for the book�www.50communicationstrategies.com. In general, I'm very pleased with the finished product.

The term interaction management has been used in a variety of studies on interpersonal communication and refers to the techniques and strategies by which you regulate and carry on interpersonal interactions. It is certainly one of the essential interpersonal skills. Effective interaction management results in an interaction that�s satisfying to both parties. Neither person feels ignored or that he or she must carry on the entire conversation; each contributes to, benefits from, and enjoys the interpersonal exchange. Of course, all interpersonal communication theory, research, and skills are devoted to the effective management of interpersonal interactions. Here, however, are three specific suggestions: <   Maintain your role as speaker or listener and pass the opportunity to speak back and forth�through appropriate eye movements, vocal expressions, and body and facial gestures. This will show that you�re in control of and comfortable in the interaction. <   Keep the c...

Immediacy is the creation of closeness, a sense of togetherness, of oneness, between speaker and listener. When you communicate immediacy you convey a sense of interest and attention, a liking for and an attraction to the other person. You communicate immediacy with both verbal and nonverbal messages. And, not surprisingly, people respond to communication that is immediate more favorably than to communication that is not. People like people who communicate immediacy. You can increase your interpersonal attractiveness, the degree to which others like you and respond positively toward you, by using immediacy behaviors. In addition there is considerable evidence to show that immediacy behaviors are also effective in workplace communication, especially between supervisors and subordinates. For example, when a supervisors uses immediacy behaviors, he or she is seen by subordinates as interested and concerned; subordinates are therefore likely to communicate more freely and honestly about...