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Interpersonal communication refers to communication with another person. This kind of communication is subdivided into dyadic communication, public communication, and small-group communication.

The Johari window model focuses on the balance of interpersonal communication.

Interpersonal communication encompasses:

• Speech
• Nonverbal communication
• Unconscious communication
• summarizing
• paraphrasing
• listening
• questioning
• Initiating: Declaring one's conversational intent and inviting consent from one's prospective conversation partner
• Turn-taking: Managing the flow of information back and forth between partners in a conversation by alternating roles of speaker and listener

Having good interpersonal communication skills support such processes as:

• parenting
• intimate relationship
• management
• selling
• counseling
• coaching
• mentoring and co-mentoring, which is mentoring in groups
• conflict resolution

Interpersonal communication is the subject of a number of disciplines in the field of psychology, notably Transactional analysis.

It can be affected by a communication disorder or by arrogance, shyness, etc.

[edit] See also

• Speech
• Knowledge visualization
• Conflict Style Inventory
• Metacommunicative competence
• Intercultural competence

[edit] External links

• The Seven Challenges: A Workbook and Reader About Communicating More Cooperatively -- by Dennis Rivers, MA, 100 pages, free PDF file, creative commons license.
• The Geometry of Dialogue: A visual way of understanding interpersonal communication and human development by Dennis Rivers, MA, 220 pages, free PDF file, creative commons license.de:Zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation

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