Interpersonal Conversations Research Articles

Curable Migraines: part 1

Abstract This is the first of two papers about treatments for migraine sufferers. Part two will demonstrate some practical approaches to treatment of the upper body. This paper will highlight the interpersonal conversation that we engage in with the patient.

The Contributions of Dialogal Psychology to Phenomenological Research

The authors describe the emergence, application, and advantages of a dialogal approach to phenomenological research and show how it is rooted in a particular community of psychological theory and practice. This approach assumes that dialogue itself, interpersonal conversation, is critical not only in teaching and in therapy but also in research. Further, this approach overcomes the dichotomy between the personal and professional without sacrificing "objectivity," finds commonalities between psychotherapy and research, and draws on the insights of the humanities. Most striking, it relies on cooperative group dialogue rather than specific procedures in moving toward understanding and interpretation of "data." Examples are drawn from dialogal research on forgiveness, humility, and social activism.

Functions of mass media in interpersonal communication

SUMMARY This paper is the result of a research project on the function(s) of mass media in interpersonal conversation. Based on their research findings the authors conclude that mass media and mass media topics play an important role in conversation; that it forms an integrated component of personal communication; that the mass media is particularly often mentioned in small groups and in groups of lower intensity of conversation, and that the mentioning of the mass media as such fulfills several functions in conversation.

Social elements as mind.

The assumption that 'mind' is the product of individual development and that cognition and emotion must be sited in individual people has dominated psychology until recently. The new conception of a 'social construction of mind' is grounded in the idea that an interpersonal conversation is the fundamental psychological reality, and that individual minds are appropriations from it. Such a personal mind is created by making private what is originally and primarily public. This idea strikes at the Cartesian basis of both behaviourist and non-behaviourist psychology, suggesting a more complex multidimensional set of polar oppositions for defining the problems of scientific psychology. For example, perhaps knowledge should be studied as a collective resource rather than as individual beliefs. There is evidence from anthropology that even that intimate form of cognitive organization we call the 'self' may have social origins in favoured grammatical models and so may be expected to differ from one linguistic culture to another.

Biological sex and communication apprehension

Based upon earlier research which has indicated that males and females may differ in their levels of communication apprehension and shyness, this study explored the possible impact of biological sex on general communication apprehension, shyness, and apprehension about broad communication contexts. Samples of 778 college students and 106 secondary school teachers completed measures of general communication apprehension, shyness, and apprehension about communication in the contexts of public speaking, meetings, small groups, and interpersonal conversation. Results indicate that males may be slightly more shy than females, females may be slightly more apprehensive about public speaking than males, but female and males do not differ meaningfully in terms of general communication apprehension.

Social interaction and smoking topography in heavy and light smokers

The effects of social interaction on the topography of smoking behavior of heavy and light cigarette smokers was investigated. Smoking behavior was analyzed via closed circuit television monitoring during periods of informal interpersonal conversation and periods of isolation. Number of cigarettes smoked, number of puffs, cigarette duration, interpuff interval, puff duration, percent of tobacco burned, time with cigarette in mouth, and time with cigarette in hand were analyzed. Heavy and light smokers were affected differentially by the social conditions. Light smokers took more frequent and longer puffs when smoking alone with social interaction functioning to decrease the total amount of smoke inhaled. Heavy smokers were unaffected by the social conditions.

Social Skill Training with and without Modeling for Schizophrenic and Non-Psychotic Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients

This investigation compared the relative effectiveness of two social skill training packages for patients diagnosed either schizophrenic or non-psychotic. Patients who scored low on a global measure of social skill were randomly assigned to one of three training conditions: social skills training with modeling, social skills training without modeling, and a behavior rehearsal control. Effects of training were assessed on brief role playing and extended interaction tasks. The results indicated that both social skills training programs had positive effects. However, modeling was essential in improving the performance of schizophrenics, but was unnecessary for non-psychotics. The effects of training transferred to semistructured inter-personal conversations. The importance of designing social skill training programs for relatively homogeneous populations was discussed.

SPEECH ACT: BREAKING PROMISES ANALYSIS IN THE COMEDY TRANSCRIPTION FAMILY 2.0

This paper proposes interpersonal conversations or speech act among the member of family. The Family 2.0 represents some breaking promises among the Husband, Son, First husband (Dog), Daughter and Wife in a comedy framework dialogues analysis. It allows for yelling, persuading, greeting, commanding, asking, offering, promising, offering, and mocking among the family members. It also allows for giving responses in exchanging arguments, by breaking the promises The Family 2.0 gives a sense of humor throughout the story. As a results of the Husband bring about his responsibilities as a consequences of his promises to other members of The Family 2.0. The analysis result is shown that the playwright deliberately conveying about the attitudes and personality of the each characters. The most type of speech act is Expressive acts (40%), followed by Directive acts (33, 33%), Commissive acts (20%), Assertive act (3, 33%) and the last Declarative act (3, 33%). Keyword: Speech Act, Promise, Comedy, and The Family 2.0