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Author:

Alda, Alan, 1936- author.

Title:

If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? : my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating / Alan Alda.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xviii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.

Contents:

Relating: it's the cake -- Theater games with engineers -- The heart and head of communication -- The mirror exercise -- Observation games -- Making it clear and vivid -- Reading minds: Helen Riess and Matt Lerner -- Teams -- Total listening starts with where they are -- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom -- Training doctors to have more empathy -- My life as a lab rat -- Working alone on building empathy -- Dark empathy -- Reading the mind of the reader -- Teaching and the flame challenge -- Emotion makes it memorable -- Story and the brain -- Commonality -- Jargon and the curse of knowledge -- The improvisation of daily life.

ISBN:

0812989147
9780812989144

OCLC:

(OCoLC)970641564

LCCN:

2016045922

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