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Presents a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the make-or-break factors that determine the efficacy of criticism, praise, and advice. This book can appeal to scholars and practitioners as a comprehensive review of the state of play in this field. It is also appropriate for use as a text for students in a range of disciplines.

Integrating and synthesizing research across disciplines, this book offers communication scholars and students a theoretical framework that will transform the way they see understanding, communication, and social connection.

With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers.

Deliberative Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict

Provides a timely and comprehensive review of work at the intersection of intergroup relations and communication. This book is divided into sections addressing specific groups, intergroup communication processes, and core contexts in which intergroup communication occurs.

In this book, the authors offer a state of the art review of applied social-psychological research on gender at work, shedding light on all the different ways that work-related perceptions, attributions, outcomes, and the like differ for women and men.

This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms.

Building on past research that includes prosocial-antisocial communication, positive psychology, as well as complementing the dark side of interpersonal communication, this volume brings together veteran interpersonal communication scholars to examine the bright, positive sides of communication in human relations.

Presents a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the make-or-break factors that determine the efficacy of criticism, praise, and advice. This book can appeal to scholars and practitioners as a comprehensive review of the state of play in this field. It is also appropriate for use as a text for students in a range of disciplines.

Offering a historical and empirical account, this book provides an overview of the socio-educational model of second language acquisition. It provides graduate students and researchers with coverage of this research-oriented approach.

Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military and political parties.

Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military and political parties.