Monday, 26 November 2012

The Psychology of Contact

By Dean Miller


Communication is about using emblems and in case of individuals, using language, to convey meanings and tips between individuals and it consists of the act of evoking side effects from other individuals. Human communication is marked by intention and concern of the reactions and conversation in humans can be spoken when mediated by words or non-verbal when no dialect is involved. Communication can also be direct when a particular pattern of conduct evokes a certain type of response or delicate and indirect when behaviors are not expected or ambiguous and not even completely comprehensible. The purpose of connection is almost always inspired or intentional as we obviously expect a result from people.

We converse with. In fact all conversation is based on concern of response from others thus communication tend to have a path or purpose. However the communication gap can create problems in the process and the objective of communication may remain unfulfilled when disseminated ideas are too vague or indirect. The vagueness increases when programs of communication between two or more individuals are remote or distal rather than proximal.

Long distance communication processs such as emails and internet, telephone calls etc. bring in new difficulties to the study of communication as we are not able to see the person we connect with, we find it difficult to 'interpret' the stimuli that we expertise. As I have noted in an previous part of this discussion, the ability to 'interpret' the communicative stimuli is a very crucial part of the communicative process and the model or derivation of the meaning of what we hear or observe depends on our inherent need for analysis of all indirect body language cues, facial expression and hints or subtle or subconscious processes.

All online conversation and information on the web are thus prone to misinterpretation as we are not able to translate the information using the non verbal cues or words and phrases that are an important part of the communication procedure.

The communication gap is thus the gap of design as despite a lot of details there is certain dearth of essential information and our brain recognizes the communication process as incomplete. You may chat with a person online for several hours in a time but unless you are in a position to see or hear his or her facial and bodily expressions, you can never be assured that the conversation process is completely genuine. Of course, modern gadgets such as the webcam have greatly improved the communication process.




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