Interpersonal communication

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mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time

Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive to defend a right point of view or a relevant statement. In the field of psychology and psychotherapy, it is a skill that can be learned and a mode of communication. ''Dorland's Medical Dictionary'' defines assertiveness as:

Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, communication, and social interaction. Proxemics is one among several subcategories in the study of nonverbal communication, including haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time).

In sociology, popularity is how much a person, idea, place, item or other concept is either liked or accorded status by other people. Liking can be due to reciprocal liking, interpersonal attraction, and similar factors. Social status can be due to dominance, superiority, and similar factors. For example, a kind person may be considered likable and therefore more popular than another person, and a wealthy person may be considered superior and therefore more popular than another person.

a sociological theory focused on cultural symbols exchanged during interpersonal interactions

exchange of information between two or more people who are interdependent

sensual proximity or touching

process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events

Microaggression is a term used for commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental slight, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward members of marginalized groups. The term was coined by Harvard University psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce in 1970 to describe insults and dismissals which he regularly witnessed non-black Americans inflicting on African Americans. By the early 21st century, use of the term was applied to the casual disparagement of any socially marginalized group, including LGBT, poor, and disabled people. Psychologis

thumb|Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Kinesics is the interpretation of body communication such as facial expressions and gestures, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the body or the body as a whole. The equivalent popular culture term is body language, a term Ray Birdwhistell, considered the founder of this area of study, neither used nor liked (on the grounds that what can be conveyed with the body does not meet the linguist's definition of language).

passing of information from person to person using oral communication

field of study in communication studies

spontaneous spread of emotions among a group

generalization Theory

limits that a person creates to identify permissible ways for other people to behave towards them

American sociolinguist

type of communication

communication model

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in phonetics, measure of how comprehensible speech is

model of interpersonal communication

postpositivist communication theory that, when interacting, people need information about the other party in order to reduce their uncertainty

Enmeshment is a concept in psychology and psychotherapy introduced by Salvador Minuchin to describe families where personal boundaries are diffused, sub-systems undifferentiated, and over-concern for others leads to a loss of autonomous development. According to this hypothesis, by being enmeshed in parental needs, trapped in a discrepant role function, a child may lose their capacity for self-direction; their own distinctiveness, under the weight of "psychic incest"; and, if family pressures increase, may end up becoming the identified patient or family scapegoat.

theory that sees communication as an exchange of behaviors, where one’s behavior can be used to violate another’s expectations, which can be perceived positively or negatively depending on an existing relationships

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