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Thanks! And out of curiosity, does the first book have much data backing it? The author's credentials seem respectable so the book would be useful even if it relied on mostly anecdotal evidence, but if it has research backing it up then I would classify it as something I need (rather than ought) to read.
When it comes to research about paradigms like that it's hard to evaluate them. If you look at nonviolent communication and set up your experiment well enough I think you will definitely find effects.
The real question isn't whether the framework does something but whether it's useful. That in turn depends on your goals.
Whether a framework helps you to successfully communicate depends a lot on cultural background of the people with whom you are interacting.
If you engage in NVC, some people with a strong sense of competition might see you as week. If you would consistentely engage in NVC in your communcation on LessWrong, you might be seen as a weird outsider.
You would need an awful lot of studies to be certain about the particular tradeoff in using NVC for a particular real world situation.
I don't know of many studies that compare whether Windows is better than Linux or whether VIM is better than Emacs. Communication paradigms are similar they are complex and difficult to compare.