Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships - Softcover

Guerrero, Laura K.; Andersen, Peter A.; Afifi, Walid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150637672X ISBN 13: 9781506376721

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Show your students how state-of-the-art research and theory can be applied to help them better understand, develop, maintain, repair, and end their relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members.

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About the Authors

Laura K. Guerrero has been at Arizona State since 1996 where she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on relational communication, nonverbal communication, statistics, and research methods. Her research focuses on communication in close relationships, emphasizing nonverbal messages, emotion, and the "dark” and “bright” sides of interpersonal communication. She is the co-author/co-editor of Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships (Erlbaum), The Nonverbal Communication Reader, Third Edition (Waveland Press), Nonverbal Communication (Pearson), and the Handbook of Communication and Emotion (Academic Press).

Peter Andersen (PhD, Florida State University) is a professor at San Diego State University. The author of five books and more than 150 book chapters, research papers, and journal articles, he has received recognition as one of the 100 most published scholars in the field of communication.

Walid A. Afifi (PhD, University of Arizona) is professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches interpersonal communication, relational communication, nonverbal communication, and social marketing. His research revolves around people’s experience of uncertainty and their decisions to seek or avoid information in relational contexts.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150637672X
• ISBN 13: 9781506376721
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 552