EDMUND ARENS Professor of Fundamental Theology at the University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandSHARON ATTIA doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social Psychology at LSE, UKMARTIN BAUER Professor of Social Psychology at LSE, UK CATHERINE CAMPBELL Professor of Social Psychology at LSE, UK and the Director of the MSc in Health, Community and DevelopmentAMA DE-GRAFT AIKINS Research Fellow in social psychology at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow of LSE Health, LSE, UK JAPINDER DHESI doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social Psychology at LSE, UK LAUREN FELDMAN Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at American University, Washington, DC, USABRADLEY FRANKS Senior Lecturer in Psychology at LSE, UK. HELEN AMELIA GREEN PhD student at the Institute of Social Psychology at LSE, UK JANE GREGORY Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College, London, UK. Her JOANNE HARDMAN Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa DEREK HOOK Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Lecturer in Social Psychology at LSE, UKCAROLINE HOWARTH Lecturer in Social Psychology at LSE, UKMATTHEW C. NISBET Associate Professor in the School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C, USAGORDON SAMMUT Associate Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of MaltaKERRY SCOTT is a health and social development specialist who recently completed the MSc in Health, Community and Development at the LSE, UKCATHY VAUGHAN public health practitioner who, since 1996, has worked in South East Asia and the Pacific in the areas of HIV and AIDS, youth health and the evaluation of health care programs

'A very timely book...the focus on the multi-faceted nature of the social and behavioural changes that are allied to communication processes is impressive' - Jaan Valsiner, Professor, Department of Psychology, Clark University, USA '...The Social Psychology of Communication is rich in differing and often even competing theoretical perspectives and practical applications, and yet it also manages to be a book of singular purpose...the reader will jump back and forth between agreement, objection, and wonder. When this occurs, the book has accomplished its goal.' Psychology in Society

• Glossary of Keywords and Definitions Introduction: The Social Psychology of Communication: Towards an 'Inter-Field' Approach; D.Hook & B. Franks PART I: INTRODUCING THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION The Developmental Impact of Communicative Interaction; J.Hardman Dialogue, Critical Consciousness and Praxis; C.Vaughan Non-verbal Communication and Culture; A.de-Graft Aikins Social Influence: Modes and Modalities; G.Sammut & M.Bauer Pragmatic Theory and Social Relations; B.Franks & H.Green Communicative Action and the Dialogical Imagination; S.Jovchelovitch PART II: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONIdentity and Resistance in Communication; C.Howarth Rumours and Gossip as Genres of Communication; B.Franks & S.Attia Empty and Full Speech; D.Hook Argument and Rhetoric; V. Glaveanu with M.Bauer Evolution and Communication; B.Franks & J.Dhesi PART III: APPLIED AREAS AND PRACTICE Religion as Communicative Action; E.Arens Media Health Campaigns: From Information to Social Change; C.Campbell & K.Scott Social Psychology of Political Communication; M.C.Nisbet & L.Feldman Science Communication; J.Gregory