Feelings, perceptions, and assumptions influence interpersonal interactions in several ways. Feelings fall into categories like joyful/affectionate, sad, and hostile. Perceptions involve selecting, organizing, and interpreting information and can be distorted by biases. Assumptions are things accepted as true without proof, and interacting parties often assume interactions are strategic and require competence.

1. Feelings, Perception and
Assumptions that Influence
Interpersonal Interactions
P.Sruthi Malakshmi
AC&RI Madurai

2. Interpersonal Interactions
Interpersonal interactions is a communication
process that involves exchange of information,
feelings and meaning by the means of verbal or
non-verbal messages between two or more
persons.

3. Feelings
Feelings are emotional state or reaction

4. How feelings influence interactions
Feelings falls under three categories
 Joyful/Affectionate
 Sad
 Hostile

5. Joyful/Affectionate
• Happiness
• Love
• Passion
• Liking

6. Sad
Sadness involves feeling unhappy, sorrowful,
and discouraged, usually resulting from some
form of loss. Indeed, the loss of a person, and
the termination of the relationship, are two of
the most common causes of sadness.

7. Sadness
• Depression
• Grief
• Fear
• Social anxiety
• Emotional contagion

8. Hostile
This kind of feeling destroy the relationships,
Includes;
• Anger
• Contempt
• Disgust
• Jealousy
• Envy

9. Perceptions
Perception means the process of making
meaning from things we experience in people
and our relationships.
It includes three components
• Selection
• Organization
• Interpretation

11. Distortions in Perception
Stereotypes:
A stereotype is any thought widely adopted
about specific types of individuals or certain
ways of behaving intended to represent the
entire group of those individuals or behaviors as
a whole.

13. Primary and Recency effects
First impressions are known as the primacy
effect. First impressions are important because
they set the tone for future interactions.
Recency effects are final impressions. These
matter, because this is how people tend to
remember us.

14. Perceptual set
It is an tendency to perceive or notice some of
the available sensory data and ignore the others
Halo Effect
The tendency for an impression created in one
area to influence opinion in another area
eg: Good looking people

15. Attribution
Humans are motivated to assign causes to their
actions and behaviors. It is the process in which
the individuals need to explain the causes of
behaviors and events.

16. Assumptions
A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to
happen, without proof.
• Interpersonal interactions requires an
exchange between people
• It occurs between people who are themselves
developing (Changing)
• It involves symbols

17. • Interpersonal interaction is strategic
• Interactions must be competent in order to
achieve their goals
• People should consider how their
communication affects others

18. Reference
• https://prezi.com/pt3loscopjem/perception-
interpersonal-communication/
• open.lib.umn.edu/communication/.../6-3-
emotions-and-interpersonal-communication/
• https://www.bellevuecollege.edu/artshum/m
ateris/spch/Hurst/.../SPCH200CC&MCh1.p