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• Watch the following interview conducted by Allan Gregg with Daniel Goleman
(the individual who popularized emotional intelligence) (http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NeJ3FF1yFyc). After watching the interview with Goleman, what did you
learn about emotional intelligence? How can you apply emotional intelligence in
your own life?
• Complete the Self-Monitoring Scale created by Mark Snyder (http://personalitytesting.info/tests/SM.php).
After finishing the scale, what do your results say about
your ability to adapt to changing interpersonal situations and contexts?
3.3 Communication & Relational Dispositions
Learning
Outcomes
Daly’s communication dispositions.
Daly’s relational dispositions.
In the previous section, we explored the importance of temperament, cognitive dispositions, and personal-social
dispositions. In this section, we are going to explore the last two dispositions discussed by John
Daly: communication and relational dispositions. 68
Now that we’ve examined cognitive and personal-social dispositions, we can move on and explore some
intrapersonal dispositions studied specifically by communication scholars.
are general patterns of communicative behavior. We are going to explore the nature of introversion/extraversion,
approach and avoidance traits, argumentativeness/verbal aggressiveness, and lastly,
sociocommunicative orientation.
The concept of / is one that has been widely studied by both psychologists
and communication researchers. The idea is that people exist on a continuum that exists from highly
extraverted (an individual’s likelihood to be talkative, dynamic, and outgoing) to highly introverted (an
individual’s likelihood to be quiet, shy, and more reserved). Before continuing, take a second and fill out
the Introversion Scale created by James C. McCroskey and available on his website (http://www.jamescmccroskey.com/measures/introversion.htm).
There is a considerable amount of research that has found
an individual’s tendency toward extraversion or introversion is biologically based. 69 As such, where you
score on the Introversion Scale may largely be a factor of your genetic makeup and not something you
can alter greatly.
When it comes to interpersonal relationships, individuals who score highly on extraversion tended
to be perceived by others as intelligent, friendly, and attractive. As such, extraverts tend to have
more opportunities for interpersonal communication; it’s not surprising that they tend to have better
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