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The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice is the first resource to synthesize key theories, research, and practices of conflict communication in a variety of contexts. Editors John Oetzel and Stella Ting-Toomey, as well as expert researchers in the field, emphasize constructive conflict management from a communication perspective which places primacy in the message as the focus of conflict research and practice.
Social Cognition Approaches to Understanding Interpersonal Conflict and Communication
Social Cognition Approaches to Understanding Interpersonal Conflict and Communication
Conflict seems to occur in most interpersonal relationships and especially those that are intimate (Argyle & Furnham, 1983). Although scholars opine that interpersonal conflict can be functional, empirical evidence indicates that its potential is not often realized. Individuals often use negative metaphors to describe their everyday conflicts (McCorkle & Mills, 1992), and intimates frequently regret the attacks and criticisms that they express to one another (Knapp, Stafford, & Daly, 1986). Arguments account for 80% of the variance in a person's negative mood (Bolger, DeLongis, Kessler, & Schilling, 1989) and negative affectivity arising from an interpersonal conflict often leads to sleep disruption the night of the disagreement (Brissette & ...
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