Used by more than a million readers, LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN has been the leading interpersonal communication
text for almost 30 years. Written in a reader-friendly voice that links scholarship to students' everyday lives,
this popular text motivates students to improve their interpersonal skills and sharpen their critical understanding
of the process of communication. Through thoughtful, diverse examples that include fine art, music, poetry, film,
and more, students can consistently see the importance of interpersonal communication and how it affects their
society and their lives.
New to the Edition
Discussion of communication models has been updated and clarified so students can more easily grasp their fundamental
concepts.
Coverage of electronically mediated communication has been expanded and updated to better reflect how technology
is affecting our interpersonal relationships.
This edition features discussion of topics new to the discipline, such as communibiology.
Skills applications, such as perception checking and self-assessments, help students apply the concepts presented
in the text.
Expanded technology integration creates a seamless transition from text to technology. Students can enhance
their experiences with the text by taking their learning online with the accompanying Looking Out/Looking In CD-ROM,
as well as with the Internet activities and Web links that appear in the text.
New "Invitation to Insight" activities direct students to CNN news stories on the Looking Out/Looking
In CD-ROM that highlight key concepts in the text, such as how social contact affects our health and how culture
affects perception.
New Communication Scenario on Perception Checking.
The authors expand the text's integration of content that reflects diversity in interpersonal communication.
Features
An attention-grabbing assortment of quotations, music lyrics, cartoons, art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction
highlight and reinforce the text concepts in a compelling way and illustrate how interpersonal concepts are aspects
of our everyday lives.
Integrated discussions of similarities and differences involving gender, culture and diversity are found throughout
the text.
Student-praised "Looking at Diversity" profiles give first-person accounts of how culture, physical
factors, and technology influence interaction.
Lively activities and exercises, such as "Skill Builder" and "Invitation to Insight," encourage
critical thinking and maintain a high level of student interest.
The "Communication Scenarios" feature integrated throughout the text and found on the accompanying
CD-ROM helps students understand difficult interpersonal communication concepts. This multimedia tool makes abstract
concepts come alive. Students maximize their experience by reading, watching, listening to, critiquing, and analyzing
the model communication encounters.
The Looking Out/Looking In CD-ROM lets students take their learning online. This CD-ROM consists of three integrated
components: InfoTrac® College Edition, access to chapter-by-chapter resources at the Looking Out/Looking In
Web site at Wadsworth's Communication Café, and Looking Out/Looking In "Communication Scenarios."
Each component of the CD-ROM is represented throughout the text with icons directing students to numerous digital
activities that reinforce and enrich the concepts presented.
Table of Contents
1. A First Look at Interpersonal Relationships.
2. Communication and Identity: The Self and Messages.
3. Perception: What You See Is What You Get.
4. Emotions: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting.
5. Language: Barrier and Bridge.
6. Nonverbal Communication: Messages without Words.
