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Unquestioned Ease: Confronting Automaticity in Everyday Communication

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Availability:In StockContributor:Xiaowei Shi, Steve MortensonPublish date:2022-10-03Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lexington BooksISBN-13:9781793637963ISBN-10:1793637962UPC:9781793637963Book Category:Education, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Professional Development, Communication Studies, TeachingBook Topic:SubjectsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC3C3TFN54

This book highlights hidden unintentional biases, emotional defense mechanisms, and responses in haste. By revealing these preconceived notions present in message choices, Xiaowei Shi and Steve Mortenson demonstrate techniques to help prevent communication from becoming problematic. In a conversational style, the authors extend their interdisciplinary theoretic perspectives by introducing concepts and practices of supportive confrontation and argumentative interaction management. Through examining those automatic responses and reactions in our everyday conversation with friends, coworkers, and loved ones, this book engages the readers to confront their own hidden preferences and underlying beliefs about gender, relationships, and themselves with a new eye. The book moves beyond prior work on rational choice model in strategic communication by considering actual human attributes. Shi and Mortenson offer new insights into communication "noises" and how to engage in communication during a difficult life event or on a difficult subject in a more skillful manner. Scholars of social psychology, interpersonal communication, and communication training and development will find this book of particular interest.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Lexington BooksISBN-13:9781793637963ISBN-10:1793637962UPC:9781793637963Book Category:Education, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Professional Development, Communication Studies, TeachingBook Topic:SubjectsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC3C3TFN54

Xiaowei Shi associate professor in the department of Communication Studies at Middle Tennessee State University.

Steve Mortenson is associate professor at the University of Delaware.


Publisher: Lexington Books

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