What Are The Psychological Barriers In Communication?

Accurate and adequate communication between groups and people will not itself bring about the change required. The physical barriers are some way or the other linked to this type of barriers but they can be overcomed way too easily but psycological barriers are hard to resist.they are mainly because of personal reasons at every stages of communication,or due to malfunction of any of the body part,or due to emotional attack,or the difference in sex,race or language or qualifications or sometimes even clothes or vehicles or status.

I find ego to be a big one. If you've ever taken hallucinogens and experienced ego loss it really opens your eyes as to the way we act simply because were expected act certain ways. The idea of people judging us on our every move, and our views of how we want to portray ourselves can easily inhibit our ability to communicate for fear of being judged as such. For example in a relationship one will often hold back information for fear of how their significant other will view them. This causes people to shut emotions inside and never really communicate what they truly want or feel.

Religion barrier

Selectivity barriers

A physiological barrier to communication is the result of a sensory dysfunction, either on the part of the reciever or the sender, speaking, hearing, & seeing are fundamental parts of effective communication.

These are disabilities that affect capability of a sender or receiver
is can be visual or hearing impairment

I am actually studying this in class, I would like to know my self. It will be good for my essay. (:

Stress Levels, how well you know the person, distractions & physical comfort levels all affect communication. A phone conversation may be different than an email because perhaps the person on the phone is not a good speaker and is uncomfortable or nervous about messing up when talking to somebody important, or perhaps they can't spell proficiently so they choose to call rather than email or to use smaller words in their emails to avoid embarrassment.

It's to do with one 's limitation of themselves..for example,deafness.

They are to do with an individuals personal circumstances and the state of their fitness. Examples: Poor eye sight.

Result from the performance characteristics and limitations of the human body and the human mind.

Some typical Psychological barriers that may impede communication within organizations may be as follows:

1) Cross cultural barriers: Some organizations have a diverse and quite complex cultural mix in terms of demographics and psycho graphics as people from various background may work together. Each would bring a different set of ethics, perspectives and languages which may cause this barrier.

2) Halo Effect: When you let another person's one salient feature dominate his personality and generally ignore other aspects of his personality that is called halo effect. It causes you to get out of sync with the individual and cause another barrier.