Teaching Interpersonal Communication in a Business Communication Course

"Most friendships develop so naturally that you don't even realize how or when they started.

"But sometimes you want to make an effort to befriend a new acquaintance or become a better friend to existing pals. Using tricks and techniques like mirroring, subliminal touching, smiling, and letting that other person talk about themselves can make you appear more likable.

We scoured the psychological research on the science of attraction to find strategies to get people to like you."

Want to stand out as a particularly collaborative colleague? Add these phrases to your office vocabulary.

Psychologists have identified the driving force behind malevolent tendencies like psychopathy, narcissism, egoism, sadism, spitefulness, and more.

When the pressure is on, why do we sometimes fail to live up to our potential? Cognitive scientist and Barnard College president Sian Leah Beilock reveals what happens in your brain and body when you choke in stressful situations, sharing psychological tools that can help you perform at your best when it matters most.

According to new research, we shy away from writing thank-you notes because we believe they won't be received as positively as they actually are.

Tips from a comedian and a journalist on the art of going from small talk to big ideas. Try these out at the next summer wedding reception.

'You can almost hear the clock ticking in the background. The deadline for your presentation is just minutes away and you are nowhere close to finishing it. The reason? A talkative colleague who loves sharing his stories with you and being in the limelight just won't quit! He is done for the day and decides to visit you and share a bit of his day with you, failing to pay heed to the presentation slides open on your computer.

We face such people everyday – be it in the driveway to the office, in the lobby, during lunch break, or even in more formal settings like a meeting or negotiation. The question then is: how do you tell such people that you are no longer interested in what they have to say or that it is someone else's turn to make a point?

A team of researchers has successfully achieved brain-to-brain human communication using non-invasive technologies across a distance of 5,000 miles.

"With the help of some Quora users and social psychology research, we were able to identify 14 social behaviors that could make you less likable."

"Too many people succumb to the mistaken belief that being likable comes from natural, unteachable traits that belong only to a lucky few — the good looking, the fiercely social, and the incredibly talented. It’s easy to fall prey to this misconception.

In reality, being likable is under your control, and it’s a matter of emotional intelligence (EQ)."

Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.

We should use tech to unlock and enable conversation for better communication, not discourage it.

Likable people are are often more successful because they are easier to work with. Success for likable people can take many forms including success in business relationships."

"If you can move beyond the boring basics when you’re asked “What do you do?," you’ll set yourself up for new relationships, opportunities and revelations, says introduction expert Joanna Bloor."

Whether you're excited or nervous to introduce yourself, make a better first impression by avoiding these mistakes.

To communicate effectively, to understand and to be understood, is a set of skills to be learned and practiced.

A popular school of thought, dramatized in the recent TV drama Lie to Me, is that a careful study of facial expressions—especially eye movements—tells investigators if a perp is dissembling. Reality is neither as dramatic nor as decisive. Even experienced investigators average only about a 65 percent success rate, according to researchers. Could computers do a better job?

"Researchers at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (U.B.), claim their video-analysis software can analyze eye movement successfully to identify whether or not a subject is fibbing 82.5 percent of the time." . . .