Review
Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and researchers
will find this work seminal and stimulating. -CHOICE
Product Description
Our interpretations of the world we live in, and the
people and institutions that comprise it, are acquired through complex interactions among what we believe to be true, what
the world is, and/or what others think it is. Understanding those complex interactions is one of the most important goals
of the social sciences. Of the many disciplines that have contributed to that understanding, two take center stage in this
book -- psychology and communication.
This volume's purpose is to reconnect the partially isolated environments of social
psychology and communication. To do so, it utilizes four building blocks:
* the cognitive foundations of interpersonal communication as it might be studied
from a social psychological perspective
* insiders' views of interpersonal communication from a cognitive psychological
standpoint
* insiders' approaches to interpersonal communication from an AI perspective
* a critique of the cognitive enterprise that reflects the strong philosophical
grounding of communication.
Overall, the chapters typify some of the most interesting cognitive work done in
the study of interpersonal communication. As such, the book should promote productive dialogue across disciplinary boundaries
and stimulate further work within the field of interpersonal communication.
