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Active listening
Active listening is the act of intentionally engaging with communication.
Speakers receive confirmation that their point is coming across and listeners absorb more information, comprehension, and understanding by being consciously engaged. The goal of active listening is to eliminate any misunderstandings and establish clear communication of thoughts, perceptions, and ideas between the speaker and listener.
Research has demonstrated that active listening promotes trust and reduces misunderstandings.
Psychologists Carl Rogers and Richard Farson published the essay Active Listening in 1987, coining the term.
Practicing active listening also emphasized Rogers' (1980) concept of three facilitative conditions for effective counseling; empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. Rogers and Farson write: "Active listening is an important way to bring about changes in people. Despite the popular notion that listening is a passive approach, clinical and research evidence clearly shows that sensitive listening is a most effective agent for individual personality change and group development. Listening brings about changes in peoples' attitudes toward themselves and others; it also brings about changes in their basic values and personal philosophy. People who have been listened to in this new and special way become more emotionally mature, more open to their experiences, less defensive, more democratic, and less authoritarian."
When practicing active listening, the listener must pay attention to what the speaker is attempting to communicate and elicit clarification where necessary for comprehension. Most individuals overestimate their capacity to employ active listening.
From the speaker's perspective, active listening is a multidimensional construct, shown by attention, comprehension, and positive intention.
Active listening includes further understanding and closeness between the listener and speaker. The more basic ways this is done are through paraphrasing, reflective emotion, and open-ended questions. Paraphrasing involves putting the speaker's message in one's words to demonstrate one's understanding and continue the discussion. Reflective emotion involves identifying the speaker's feelings, whether expressed or not, and responding to those feelings that will further validate the person's emotional state. On the other hand, open-ended questions permit the interviewee to expound on their responses, thus allowing deeper insight into their thoughts and experiences and encouraging a more inclusive dialogue.
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Active listening
Active listening is the act of intentionally engaging with communication.
Speakers receive confirmation that their point is coming across and listeners absorb more information, comprehension, and understanding by being consciously engaged. The goal of active listening is to eliminate any misunderstandings and establish clear communication of thoughts, perceptions, and ideas between the speaker and listener.
Research has demonstrated that active listening promotes trust and reduces misunderstandings.
Psychologists Carl Rogers and Richard Farson published the essay Active Listening in 1987, coining the term.
Practicing active listening also emphasized Rogers' (1980) concept of three facilitative conditions for effective counseling; empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. Rogers and Farson write: "Active listening is an important way to bring about changes in people. Despite the popular notion that listening is a passive approach, clinical and research evidence clearly shows that sensitive listening is a most effective agent for individual personality change and group development. Listening brings about changes in peoples' attitudes toward themselves and others; it also brings about changes in their basic values and personal philosophy. People who have been listened to in this new and special way become more emotionally mature, more open to their experiences, less defensive, more democratic, and less authoritarian."
When practicing active listening, the listener must pay attention to what the speaker is attempting to communicate and elicit clarification where necessary for comprehension. Most individuals overestimate their capacity to employ active listening.
From the speaker's perspective, active listening is a multidimensional construct, shown by attention, comprehension, and positive intention.
Active listening includes further understanding and closeness between the listener and speaker. The more basic ways this is done are through paraphrasing, reflective emotion, and open-ended questions. Paraphrasing involves putting the speaker's message in one's words to demonstrate one's understanding and continue the discussion. Reflective emotion involves identifying the speaker's feelings, whether expressed or not, and responding to those feelings that will further validate the person's emotional state. On the other hand, open-ended questions permit the interviewee to expound on their responses, thus allowing deeper insight into their thoughts and experiences and encouraging a more inclusive dialogue.
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