Interpersonal communication has been studied in terms of both communication functions and
specialized contexts. This handbook comprehensively covers the field including research on
processes of social influence the role of communication in the development maintenance and
decline of close personal relationships nonverbal communication cognitive approaches
communication and conflict bargaining and negotiation health communication organizational
socialization and supervisor-subordinate communication social networks and
technologically-mediated interpersonal communication. Two chapters are dedicated to research
methods in the field. The handbook includes chapters by widely recognized and respected
scholars in the field.
