Interpersonal Adaptation
Dyadic Interaction Patterns

This highly orginal book examines the numerous ways in which people communicate, verbally and nonverbally.

Judee K. Burgoon (Author), Lesa A. Stern (Author), Leesa Dillman (Author)

9780521451208, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 October 1995

356 pages, 11 b/w illus.
23.5 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.608 kg

"In this ambitious book, Burgoon, Stern and Dillman present the most comprehensve coverage of the literature on interpersonal adaptation that I have seen in recent years....The book gets more interesting as it goes along and the authors delve more into their own research....The book is worth its price for adavnced students and researchers in interpersonal adaptation." Cindy Gallois, Quarterly Journal of Speech

When people communicate, they often adapt their interaction styles to one another. This highly interesting book examines the numerous ways in which people do this verbally and nonverbally. It reviews theories that try to explain and predict interaction patterns and examines issues involved in conducting this kind of research. It concludes with a proposed theory, Interaction Adaptation Theory, and considers how different interaction patterns can lead to positive or negative outcomes.

List of figures and tables
Preface
Part I. Overview: 1. Introduction
Part II. Interaction Adaptation Theories and Models: 2. Biological approaches
3. Arousal and affect approaches
4. Social norm approaches
5. Communication and cognitive approaches
Part III. Issues in Studying Interaction Adaptation: 6. Reconceptualising interaction adaptation patterns
7. Operationalising adaptation patterns
8. Analysing adaptation patterns
Part IV. Multimethod Tests of Reciprocity and Compensation: 9. A first illustration
10. Further illustrations
Part V. Developing a New Interpersonal Adaptation Theory: 11. The theories revisited
12. A research agenda
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]