Types of information: Human communication as a theme for psychological study -- Artificial and human communication systems -- The growth of communication theory -- The human being as an element in an artificial system -- The central nervous system as a transmitter of information -- Information as uncertainty reduction -- Information as content -- Hybrid information -- Information theory as model and as paradigm -- Closed and open systems -- The role of language in communication -- The communication of affective experience -- Three broad categories of information -- Scientific statement and artistic expression as the main specialist categories -- Barriers to human communication: The seven barriers named -- Limitation of the receiver's capacity -- Distraction -- The unstated assumption -- Incompatibility of schemas -- Influence of unconscious and partly conscious mechanisms -- Confused presentation -- Absence of communication channels -- Instances of failure described and discussed -- Communication problems in complex activities: Personnel selection -- Literary criticism -- Education and training -- Communication and military decision -- The administration of law -- Medicine -- Scientific research -- Creative art -- Personal relationships -- Is any experience essentially incommunicable -- Communication as an area of psychological research: Scientific method as an evolutionary process -- Psychology and the physical sciences -- The dangers of mechanomorphism -- Research on sign communication -- Research in the communication of cognitive content -- Research in the communication of affective experience

1. Communication -- Psychological Aspect