Psychological Barriers in Communication

Psychological Barriers in Communication

 These are barriers on part on each individual .No two personalities are same. They vary in their knowledge, experience, attitude, emotion, belief, values etc, and thus it happens that they do not tune at the same wavelength while communicating which cause barriers to communication. Different reasons which causes psychological barrier are discussed below:

i. Emotions: These are powerful communication filter. When you send message receivers may think with their emotions which are called seeing the world with coloured glasses. Strong emotions can prevent reception, or distort the strength of a message. For example if you have a fight with your brother or sister at breakfast table the whole day you will have poor communication due to disturbed emotions.

ii. Attitude: These are also barriers to effective communication like emotions. Negative and positive attitudes can create resistance or bias to a message.

iii. Inattention: At times we do not listen, but only hear, especially when there are more important things to be taken care of. For instance, if a visitor comes to you at the same instance when you are answering the phone, then it is important to excuse yourself from the person on the phone so that exclusive attention can be given to the visitor or you may request the visitor to wait for some time.