Class: EMBA-IT
Assigned No: 2
Date: 15/9/2008
Barriers to Communication:
Psychological Barriers:
The psychological barriers are those which are involved with some human
psychology due to which it can become hurdle in the way of communication and
the communication can be distorted by the psychological barriers. So in order to
make the communication flow in a better way, the psychological barriers are
those like absence of mind, some fear during communication to a person who is
communicating with others, excitement, emotionally not stable. So these are the
factors which can influence the communication in the different ways
a. Emotional:
b. Perceptual:
c. Selectivity:
The audience is not able to absorb all the information coming from a variety of
sources; so the audience picks up information selectively. The selectivity is
affected by timing, context and the degree of uniqueness of information.