Description
Strategic Conflict offers a research-based, accessible analysis of how people can manage conflict productively. Moving beyond the basics of conflict, it examines interpersonal situations in which conflict occurs and promotes strategic communicative responses based on the latest theoretical research. Daniel J. Canary and his colleagues add personal observations, media examples, and samples of actual interaction to provide concrete illustrations of the research findings. This comprehensive volume provides students with the tools to understand conflict in real-world contexts.
Table of Contents
1: The Need for Strategic Conflict
2: Seeking Strategic Control: Communication Strategies and Tactics
3: Maintenance and Conflict: a Dual Process View
4: Seeking Episode Control: Conflict Instigation Due to Alcohol, Moods, Emotions, Stress, and the Environment
5: Interpersonal Transgressions
6: Accounts
7: Seeking Personal Control: Personality Differences in Managing Conflict
8: Power and Power Strategies
9: Seeking Attributional Control: Interpreting Conflict
10: Intercultural Conflict
11: Seeking Goal Control: Goal Achievement and Defense
12: Health and Conflict
13: Ongoing Serial Conflict
14: Abuse, Divorce, and Effects on Children
15: Seeking Resolution through Forgiveness
