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[5] [6] Interpersonal communication is often defined as communication that takes place between people who are interdependent and have some knowledge of each other: for example, communication between a son and his father, an employer and an employee, two sisters, a teacher and a student, two lovers, two friends, and so on.
The social penetration theory (SPT) proposes that as relationships develop, interpersonal communication moves from relatively shallow, non-intimate levels to deeper, more intimate ones. [1] The theory was formulated by psychologists Irwin Altman of the University of Utah [ 2 ] and Dalmas Taylor of the University of Delaware [ 3 ] in 1973 to ...
Relational dialectics is an interpersonal communication theory about close personal ties and relationships that highlights the tensions, struggles and interplay between contrary tendencies. [1] The theory, proposed respectively by Leslie Baxter [ 2 ] and Barbara Montgomery [ 3 ] in 1988, defines communication patterns between relationship ...
High-context cultures often exhibit less-direct verbal and nonverbal communication, utilizing small communication gestures and reading more meaning into these less-direct messages. [4] Low-context cultures do the opposite; direct verbal communication is needed to properly understand a message being communicated and relies heavily on explicit ...
The term Social Information Processing Theory was originally titled by Salancik and Pfeffer in 1978. [4] They stated that individual perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors are shaped by information cues, such as values, work requirements, and expectations from the social environment, beyond the influence of individual dispositions and traits. [5]
Barnlund's model of interpersonal communication involves two people who decode some of the cues available to them (orange arrows) and respond by encoding verbal and non-verbal behavioral responses (yellow arrows). Interpersonal communication is the paradigmatic form of communication. It happens when two or more people interact with each other.
Gebhard et al. reported an experimental study in the GMS Journal for Medical Education in Germany by developing the COMSKIL Communication Skills Training Program and then adapting theoretical foundations training by implementing the goals-plans-action theory, sociolinguistics theory, and the lay-etiological “common sense model of illness ...
Journal of Family Communication. 3.2 (2003): 67-93. Qin Z., Stella T., & John G.O. (2014) Linking emotion to the conflict face-negotiation theory: a U.S.-China investigation of the mediating effects of anger, compassion, and guilt in interpersonal conflict. Human Communication Research, 40, 373-375.