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for Boys. After completing with distinction a Royal Air Force science course at the
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in 1965. The communication cycle involves six steps: someone decides to communicate an idea, encodes it, and sends it; someone else receives it, decodes it and understands it. Feedback demonstrates understanding (e.g. an action is performed or a reply message is encoded and sent). The model allows
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One of Argyle's most notable later contributions was to the psychology of happiness. Keen that more research should be done in this field, he published "The
Psychology of Happiness" in 1987, 2nd edition 2001. In this book he listed and discussed empirical findings on happiness, including that
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Some of Argyle's best-known contributions were to this field. He was especially interested in gaze. One of his best-known books relevant to this field, The
Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour, became a best-seller. Argyle made contributions to many fields in psychology, including:
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from the universities of Oxford (1979), Adelaide and
Brussels (1982) and an honorary fellowship of the British Psychological Society (1992). In 1990 The International Society of the Study of Personal Relationships in 1990 gave him a distinguished career contribution award.
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His wife Sonia died in 1999 and Argyle died on 6 September 2002, at the age of 77, of injuries suffered in a swimming accident, from which he never fully recovered.
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