Tag: effective listening
Mood Congruency Recall and It’s Effect on Communication
June 22nd, 2009, 11 Comments
Mood Congruency and Its Effect On Our Communication
The Effect of Mood Valence on Memory Recall and Communication.
Have you ever noticed that when you are depressed that pretty much everything seems depressing? You may look at a couple happily walking down the street and all you are thinking about is how they are eventually going to [...]
David J. Parnell’s Crash Course on Cognitive Rule Set’s | Part 2 of 2 | Cognitive Rule Set Elicitation
April 4th, 2009, 1 Comment
Communication Expertise with Cognitive Rule Sets 2.
So now that we have a rough frame work of how a decision is made, let’s talk about the rational component of this process which is the “cognitive decision”. Although they are not necessarily the most important, or influential part of the general decision making process, they are indeed [...]
David J. Parnell’s Crash Course on Cognitive Rule Set’s | Part 1 of 2 | How A Decision Is Made
April 3rd, 2009, No Comments
Cognitive Rule Sets are an integral part of decision making
Communication Expertise with Cognitive Rule Sets.
Decision making has been an inherently interesting subject for the field of psychology. In understanding the process by which people make decisions, it is significantly easier to predict and direct their behavior…
For us to move further in our discussion, the [...]
The Blueprint of a Listener | Part 3 of 3 | Mental/Lexical Categorization
March 5th, 2009, No Comments
Yesterday we discovered how the brain uses the mental lexicon to determine the literal meaning of the communication that is being presented to it. Today we will finish the segment by talking about how the brain fits that information into its own world to determine the interpersonal meaning of that communication to the listener. This [...]
The Blueprint of a Listener | Part 2 of 3 | The Mental Lexicon
March 5th, 2009, No Comments
Your effective communication skills start in your mental lexicon.
Yesterday we discussed the initial exposure to the sound stimulus and phonemes. Today we are going to talk about how the brain turns the phonemes into words via our mental lexicon so let’s get to it…
Decoding of a word’s meaning with the Mental Lexicon:
The processes that we [...]
The Blueprint of a Listener | Part 1 of 3 | Stimulus Processing And Decoding
March 5th, 2009, No Comments
Understanding the blueprint of a listener is necessary if your are to be a communication expert.
This one is a bit dense… So although it isn’t terribly lengthy I decided to break it up into three parts so you don’t fry your brain on it Although this is extremely foundational information, I believe [...]
David J. Parnell’s Introduction To Sleight of Mouth Patterns | Part 2 of 2 | The Quantum Nature Of A Thought’s Linguistic Perimeter
March 4th, 2009, No Comments
One of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, the field from which we have derived the effective communication tool of quantum linguistics
The word quantum is Latin and means “how great” or “how much.” Now in quantum mechanics, it refers to a discrete (specific) unit (measurement) that quantum theory assigns to certain quantities, such as the [...]
David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 7 of 7 | Body Language Displays For Effective Communication
March 3rd, 2009, No Comments
The Psychoevolutionary Theory and its place in the development of effective communication skills using body language
Today we are going to talk about how to increase congruence in your body language display and the message you want to send. I will cover 3 of the most often used emotions on a daily basis so that you [...]
David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 3 of 7 | Incongruence And Our Subconscious
March 3rd, 2009, No Comments
Incongruence literally means “not harmonious” per Webster’s dictionary (from incongruous). For our purposes this refers to the system of communication and the term system comprises many things… Language, content, abstraction level, tonality, etc… and last but certainly NOT least is body language. Let’s talk a bit further about how and where incongruity happens and how [...]
David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 2 of 7 | What Body Language REALLY Conveys
March 3rd, 2009, No Comments
There is quite a bit of controversy wrapped around body language… Lie detection, mind reading, fortune telling… you name it; I have heard or read it. But what can we believe? Where do myth and fact part ways to help you learn a skill that is indeed viable for providing accurate information? Let’s chat a [...]
