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Author Alda, Alan, 1936- author.

Title If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? : my adventures in the art and science of relating and communicating / Alan Alda.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, 2017.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  153.6 ALDA    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  153.6 ALDA    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  153.6 ALDA    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  153.6 ALDA    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  153.6 ALD    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  153.6 ALDA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  153.6 ALD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  153.6 ALD    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  153.6 ALDA    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  153.6 ALD    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 213 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Relating: it's the cake -- Theater games with engineers -- The heart and head of communication -- The mirror exercise -- Observation games -- Making it clear and vivid -- Reading minds: Helen Riess and Matt Lerner -- Teams -- Total listening starts with where they are -- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom -- Training doctors to have more empathy -- My life as a lab rat -- Working alone on building empathy -- Dark empathy -- Reading the mind of the reader -- Teaching and the flame challenge -- Emotion makes it memorable -- Story and the brain -- Commonality -- Jargon and the curse of knowledge -- The improvisation of daily life.
Summary The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
Subject Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal communication. (OCoLC)fst00977344
Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
ISBN 9780812989144
0812989147
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