INTERPERSONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interpersonal mean? 

• INTERPERSONAL (adjective)
  The adjective INTERPERSONAL has 1 sense:

1. occurring among or involving several people

  Familiarity information: INTERPERSONAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERPERSONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring among or involving several people

Context example:

interpersonal situations in which speech occurs

Similar:

social (living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups)

 Context examples 

Methods, products, and devices to facilitate interpersonal communication.

(Communication Tools, NCI Thesaurus)

Its focus is on spontaneous movement, concentration, visual and auditory objectivity, controlled self-consciousness, and responsiveness to interpersonal relationships.

(Fleming Method Relaxation, NCI Thesaurus)

Interaction includes communication or interpersonal contact between investigator and subject.

(Human Study Subject, Food and Drug Administration)

Draws on social relationships and organizations to reach large populations through media and interpersonal strategies that deliver messages and mechanisms to reduce chronic diseases.

(Community Health Education, NCI Thesaurus)

This is the first brain imaging study of two related individuals to investigate if and how babies’ interpersonal neural connectivity with their mothers is affected by the emotional quality of their social interaction.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of unstable self-image and mood together with volatile interpersonal relationships, self-damaging impulsivity, recurrent suicidal threats or gestures and/or self-mutilating behavior.

(Borderline personality disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

According to scientists, this interbrain synchrony may be a key factor in understanding language and interpersonal communication.

(Our Brains Synchronize during A Conversation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of avoidance of social situations and interpersonal contact due to overwhelming feelings of social inadequacy and a hypersensitivity to negative evaluation or rejection.

(Avoidant Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

In trying to manage the growing burden of chronic preventable disease, we’re increasingly moving towards precision healthcare, target-driven care and technology-based assessment, while at the same time focusing less on the human, interpersonal empathic aspects of care, says Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller, a GP and researcher at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)

It involves interbrain communion that goes beyond language itself and may constitute a key factor in interpersonal relations and the understanding of language.

(Our Brains Synchronize during A Conversation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)