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Informationen zum Autor Laura K. Guerrero has been at Arizona State since 1996 where she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on relational communication, nonverbal communication, statistics, and research methods. Her research focuses on communication in close relationships, emphasizing nonverbal messages, emotion, and the "dark" and "bright" sides of interpersonal communication. She is the co-author/co-editor of Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships (Erlbaum), The Nonverbal Communication Reader, Third Edition (Waveland Press), Nonverbal Communication (Pearson), and the Handbook of Communication and Emotion (Academic Press). Klappentext Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, Fourth Edition takes a relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication by focusing on issues that are central to describing and understanding close relationships. Although the primary focus is on communication research, this book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of personal relationships by including research from various disciplines such as social psychology and family studies. Organized using a developmental approach, the authors first look at initial interaction and relational escalation, then move on to issues related to maintaining intimate relationships, and finally focus on challenges relational partners face, including relationship endings. Zusammenfassung New edition of this popular student introduction, taking a relational approach to the field of interpersonal communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Conceptualizing Relational Communication 2. Communicating Identity 3. Drawing People Together 4. Making Sense of Our World 5. Changing Relationships: Stages, Turning Points, and Dialectics 6. Revealing and Hiding Ourselves 7. Communicating Closeness 8. Making a Love Connection 9. Communicating Sexuality: The Closest Physical Encounter 10. Staying Close 11. Coping With Conflict 12. Influencing Each Other 13. Hurting the Ones We Love 14. Healing the Hurt 15. Ending Relationships ...
