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Introducing Interpersonal Communication?
What Is Communication??
Defining Communication?
Understanding Communication Models?
What Is Interpersonal Communication??
Defining Interpersonal Communication
Principles of Interpersonal Communication
Motives for Interpersonal Communication?
What Is Interpersonal Communication Competence??
Understanding Competence?
Self-quiz: Test Your Self-Monitoring
Improving Your Competence Online?
Issues in Interpersonal Communication?
Culture?
Gender and Sexual Orientation?
Focus on Culture: Intercultural Competence
Online Communication?
The Dark Side of Interpersonal Relationships
?Making Relationship Choices: Dealing with a Difficult Friend?
The Journey Ahead?
Chapter Review
part one?/?Interpersonal Essentials
2
Considering Self?
The Components of Self
Self-Awareness?
Self-Concept?
Self-Quiz: Test Your Self-Concept Clarity?
Self-Esteem?
Focus on Culture: How Does the Media Shape Your Self-Esteem??
The Sources of Self?
Gender and Self?
Family and Self?
Culture and Self
Communicating Your Self?
Maintaining Your Public Self?
Disclosing Your Private Self
The Relational Self
Competently Disclosing Your Self
The Online Self?
Presenting Your Self Online
Evaluating Online Self Presentations
Improving Your Online Self Presentation
Improving Your Self?
?Making Relationship Choices: Workplace Self-Disclosure?
Chapter Review?
3
Perceiving Others?
Perception as a Process?
Selecting Information?
Organizing the Information You’ve Selected?
Interpreting the Information
Reducing Uncertainty?
Influences on Perception?
Perception and Culture
Perception and Gender?
Focus on Culture: Perceiving Race?
Perception and Personality?
Forming Impressions of Others?
Constructing Gestalts
Calculating Algebraic Impressions?
Using Stereotypes?
Improving Your Perception
Offering Empathy?
Self-Quiz: Test Your Empathy?
Checking Your Perception
Practicing Responsible Perception?
?Making Relationship Choices: Balancing Impressions and Empathy?
Chapter Review?
4
Experiencing and Expressing Emotions?
The Nature of Emotion?
Defining Emotion?
Feelings and Moods?
Types of Emotions?
Focus on Culture: Happiness across Cultures?
Forces Shaping Emotion?
Personality
Gender?
Managing Your Emotional Experience and Expression?
Emotional Intelligence
Self-Quiz: Test Your Emotional Intelligence
Managing Emotions After They Occur?
Preventing Emotions Before They Occur
Reappraising Emotions While They Occur?
Emotional Challenges?
Anger
Online Communication and Empathy Deficits?
Passion?
Grief?
Living a Happy Emotional Life?
?Making Relationship Choices: Managing Anger and Providing Support?
Chapter Review?
part two?/?Interpersonal Skills
5?
Understanding Culture?
Understanding Culture?
Culture Defined?
Co-Cultures
Focus on Culture: Is Technology a Cultural Divide??
Prejudice?
Cultural Influences on Communication?
Individualism versus Collectivism?
Uncertainty Avoidance?
Power Distance?
High and Low Context?
Emotion Displays?
Masculinity versus Femininity?
Views of Time?
Creating Intercultural Competence?
World-Mindedness
Attributional Complexity?
Communication Accommodation?
Self-Quiz: Are You World-Minded or Ethnocentric??
Dismantling Division
?Making Relationship Choices: Parent-Child Culture Clash?
Chapter Review?
6?
Understanding Gender
Understanding Gender
Gender Is Distinct from Sex and Gender Identity
Gender Is Learned
Gender Is Socially Constructed
Doing Gender
Considering Gender Roles
Focus on Culture: Gender Equity and Health
Gender and Communication
Gender and Verbal Communication
Gender and Nonverbal Communication
Gender and Relationships
Same-Sex Friendships
Romantic Relationships
Reflecting on Gender in Our Relationships
Self-quiz: Test Your Sexism
Moving Beyond Stereotypes
?Making Relationship Choices: Supporting a Gender-Nonconforming Friend
Chapter Review?
7
Listening Actively?
Listening: A Five-Step Process?
Receiving?
Attending?
Self-Quiz: Multitasking and Attention?
Understanding?
Responding?
Recalling?
The Five Functions of Listening?
Listening to Comprehend?
Listening to Discern?
Listening to Analyze?
Listening to Appreciate?
Listening to Support?
Adapting Your Listening Purpose?
Understanding Listening Styles?
Four Listening Styles?
Gender Differences in Listening Styles?
Culture and Listening Styles
Focus on Culture: Men Just Don’t Listen!?
Improving Listening Competence
Selective Listening?
Eavesdropping?
Pseudo-Listening?
Aggressive Listening?
Narcissistic Listening?
The Gift of Active Listening?
?Making Relationship Choices: Listening When You Don’t Want To?
Chapter Review?
8?
Communicating Verbally?
Describing Verbal Communication?
Language Is Symbolic?
Language Is Governed by Rules
Language Is Flexible?
Language Is Cultural?
Language Evolves?
Functions of Verbal Communication?
Sharing Meaning?
Shaping Thought?
Naming?
Focus on Culture: Challenging Traditional Gender Labels?
Performing Actions?
Crafting Conversations?
Managing Relationships?
Cooperative Verbal Communication?
Understandable Messages?
Using "I" Language?
Using "We" Language?
Gender and Cooperative Verbal Communication?
Barriers to Cooperative Verbal Communication?
Verbal Aggression?
Deception?
Self-Quiz: Test Your Deception Acceptance
Defensive Communication?
Communication Apprehension?
The Power of Verbal Communication?
?Making Relationship Choices: Dealing with Difficult Truths?
Chapter Review?
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Communicating Nonverbally?
Describing Nonverbal Communication?
Nonverbal Communication Differs from Verbal Communication
Nonverbal Communication Is Influenced by Culture?
Nonverbal Communication Is Influenced by Gender?
Nonverbal Communication Is Liberated Through Technology?
Nonverbal Communication Codes?
Communicating Through Body Movements?
Communicating Through Voice?
Communicating Through Touch?
Focus on Culture: Touch and Distance
Communicating Through Personal Space?
Communicating Through Physical Appearance?
Communicating Through Objects?
Communicating Through the Environment?
Functions of Nonverbal Communication?
Expressing Emotion?
Conveying Meanings?
Presenting Self?
Managing Interactions?
Defining Relationships?
Self-Quiz: Test Your Nonverbal Dominance Knowledge?
Competently Managing Your Nonverbal Communication?
?Making Relationship Choices: Dealing with Mixed Messages?
Chapter Review?
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Managing Conflict and Power?
Conflict and Interpersonal Communication?
What Is Conflict?
Conflict in Relationships?
Power and Conflict?
Power’s Defining Characteristics?
Power Currencies?
Power and Gender?
Power and Culture
Handling Conflict?
Approaches to Handling Conflict?
Gender and Handling Conflict?
Culture and Handling Conflict?
Focus on Culture: Accommodation and Radical Pacifism?
Technology and Handling Conflict?
Conflict Endings?
Short-Term Conflict Resolutions
Long-Term Conflict Outcomes?
Challenges to Handling Conflict?
Self-Enhancing Thoughts?
Destructive Messages?
Self-Quiz: Test Your Understanding of Destructive Thoughts
Serial Arguments?
Physical Violence?
Unsolvable Disputes?
Managing Conflict and Power?
?Making Relationship Choices: Dealing with Family Conflict?
Chapter Review?
part three?/?Interpersonal Relationships
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Relationships with Romantic Partners?
Defining Romantic Relationships?
Liking and Loving?
Different Types of Romantic Love?
Key Elements of Romantic Relationships?
Romantic Attraction?
Proximity?
Physical Attractiveness?
Similarity?
Reciprocal Liking?
Resources?
Technology and Romantic Attraction?
Relationship Development and Deterioration
Coming Together?
Coming Apart?
Maintaining Romantic Relationships?
Maintenance Strategies?
Maintaining Romance across Distance?
Deciding Whether to Maintain?
The Dark Side of Romantic Relationships?
Betrayal?
Self-Quiz: How Often Do You Betray Romantic Partners??
Jealousy?
Focus on Culture: Infidelity Internationally?
Relational Intrusion
Dating Violence?
The Hard Work of Successful Love?
?Making Relationship Choices: Managing Jealousy about a Partner’s Ex?
Chapter Review?
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Relationships with Family Members?
Defining Family?
Defining Characteristics of Family?
Types of Families?
Family Stories?
Communicating in Families?
Communication Dimensions?
Family Communication Patterns?
Maintaining Family Relationships?
Maintenance Strategies for Families?
Technology and Family Maintenance?
Dealing with Family Dialectics??
Focus on Culture: Autonomy and Class: Helicopter Parents?
Family Relationship Challenges?
Stepfamily Transition
Parental Favoritism?
Self-Quiz: How Much Family Favoritism Exists??
Interparental Conflict?
The Primacy of Family?
?Making Relationship Choices: Struggling with Family Transitions?
Chapter Review?
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Relationships with Friends?
The Nature of Friendship?
Friendship Defined?
Friendship Functions?
Friendship across the Life Span?
Friendship, Culture, and Gender?
Friendship and Technology?
Types of Friendships?
Best Friends?
Cross-Category Friendships?
Focus on Culture: Cross-Orientation Male Friendships?
Maintaining Friendships?
Following Friendship Rules?
Maintenance Strategies for Friends?
Friendship Challenges?
Betrayal?
Geographic Separation?
Self-Quiz: Friendship Distance-Durability?
Attraction: Romance and FWB Relationships?
The Importance of Friends?
?Making Relationship Choices: Choosing between Friends?
Chapter Review?
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Relationships in the Workplace?
The Nature of Workplace Relationships?
The Culture of the Workplace?
Networks in the Workplace?
Organizational Climates?
Technology in the Workplace?
Peer Relationships?
Types of Peer Relationships?
Maintaining Peer Relationships?
Mixed-Status Relationships?
Managing Up?
Communicating with Subordinates?
Focus on Culture: The Model Minority Myth
Maintaining Mixed-Status Relationships?
Challenges to Workplace Relationships?
Workplace Bullying?
Workplace Romances?
Sexual Harassment?
Self-quiz: Test Your Perception of Sexual Harassment
Workplace Relationships and Human Happiness
?Making Relationship Choices: Dealing with Workplace Abuse?
Chapter Review?
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Glossary?
References?
Name Index?
Subject Index?