Communication plays an extremely important role in a person's life. Interacting with other people helps you solve complex problems that sometimes cannot be dealt with alone.
Interpersonal (direct) communication
Interpersonal communication occurs between two or more people. It allows you to directly establish contact between participants. That is why this type of communication is also called direct. Each participant is able to influence the process of interaction with others. This interaction occurs through words (verbal communication) and through signs, gestures or facial expressions (non-verbal communication).
Non-verbal communication is the primary language, since all its manifestations denote some kind of meaning. With the ability to read certain signs (facial expression, body language), a person can recognize the true motives of his interlocutor, especially if the latter is lying.
Interpersonal communication is based on the emotional attractiveness of a partner, since a person is primarily guided by his inner needs. A person will communicate with his own kind willingly only if he feels himself to a certain extent important next to them.
Mediated communication
Such communication takes place between a person and society. In this case, he is only able to receive information. The interaction goes only in one direction. An example is reading books, studying works of art. Mediated communication is extremely important for the formation of a person's personality. It allows him to feel as one with the society in which he lives. Thus, he communicates with the whole world.
Personal communication
Personal communication is focused on the inner world of a person. It is associated with experiences, feelings and is designed to defend the personality of a person in a huge and sometimes hostile world. Personal communication can occur between two people when they share the most intimate with each other.
In order for communication between people to become personal, qualities inherent in a person should be manifested through it: kindness, altruism. In this case, information plays a secondary role.
Formal role-based communication
This type of communication involves interaction between a boss and a subordinate, a teacher and a student, etc. Any person is assigned a role that cannot be exceeded. The interlocutors know exactly what to expect from each other. Each of them tries on a certain model of behavior on the other.
Official communication is formal. A person brings individuality to the social role assigned to him, but the rules of his behavior are dictated by the environment in which he is.
