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Used by more than a million students, LOOKING OUT/LOOKING IN, Fourteenth Edition, maintains its outstanding tradition of combining current information with a fun, reader-friendly voice that links course topics to your everyday life. You'll discover how you will benefit from improving your interpersonal skills and sharpening your critical understanding of the communication process. Diverse and compelling examples illustrate and reinforce how communication skills can affect both the world around you and your own lives. Improve your relationships and your future career success with this engaging text that teaches interpersonal concepts through popular music, art, movies, and television.

1. A First Look at Interpersonal Communication. 2. Communication and Identity: Creating and Presenting the Self. 3. Perception: What You See Is What You Get. 4. Emotions: Feeling, Thinking, and Communicating. 5. Language: Barrier and Bridge. 6. Nonverbal Communication: Messages beyond Words. 7. Listening: More Than Meets the Ear. 8. Communication and Relational Dynamics. 9. [NEW TOPIC] Communication in Close Relationships. (subsections: Communication in the Family. Communication among Friends. Communication in Intimate Relationships.) 10. Improving Communication Climates. 11. Managing Interpersonal Conflicts.