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The sweet spots in human communication.

Philip Salem1

  • 1Department of Communication Studies, Texas State University San Marcos, TX 78666, USA. ps05@txstate.edu

Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences
|June 8, 2011
PubMed
Summary

This study models human communication as an emergent social process, identifying "sweet spots" of dynamic tension between similarity and difference for optimal transformation. Finding these communication sweet spots requires a process orientation and understanding modeling techniques.

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