Ebook: Communication AND Human Behavior

A knowledge of human behavior helps us understand ourselves, our actions, our motives, our feelings, and our aspirations…

Communication and Human Behavior portrays a broad and colorful landscape of the field, outlines the history of communication study, and focuses on communication as a basic life process  that is necessary to our lives as individuals and to our relationships, groups, organizations, cultures, and societies.  

Communication and Human Behavior by Brent Ruben and Lea Stewart:

• integrates up-to-date examples and research findings throughout, including persuasion, interpersonal relationships, organizational communication and leadership, 21^st century careers, useful information about Middle Eastern culture, contemporary social media use, and more.
• examines the role of communication in multiple contexts of human life, including individual relationships, groups, organizations, cultural/intercultural frameworks, and public and mass communication.
• is expansive yet integrated, rigorous yet readable, and fuses theory and practice.