TY - BOOK AU - Alda,Alan TI - If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating SN - 9780812989144 AV - BF637.C45 A424 2017 U1 - 153.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Interpersonal communication KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Interpersonal Relations KW - Communication KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Business Communication KW - bisacsh KW - SCIENCE KW - Study & Teaching KW - SELF-HELP KW - Communication & Social Skills KW - fast KW - Communication in science KW - Self-help publications KW - lcgft N1 - Includes index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -