Communication Rules

From a research report I am co-authoring:

Though one mostly does not think about them consciously, [communication] rules become apparent when violated – when the new employee starts telling the supervisor about his grandmother's hemorrhoids for example.

and

When two strangers meet, cultural rules tell them how to say hello and what to talk about; research has shown that the weather and football are widely accepted topics in western societies.

Posted by Raphael Wimmer on December 12, 2007

https://raphaelwimmer.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/communication-rules/