Biological Dimensions of Communication: Perspectives, Methods, and Research

Over a decade ago, Beatty and McCroskey developed a paradigm for the scientific study of comunication that attributed individual differences in communication to individual differences in underlying neurobiological systems. The authors sought to provide a platform for the study of the biological influences on a wide range of communication processes regardless of paradigmatic orientation. This edited volume advances that goal through indepth discussions of theoretical perspectives in addition to communibiology such as evelutionary psycholgoy, cognitive neuroscience and the biosocial approach and methods of biologycally based inquiry.