Chapter 7 Outline: Part II

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  • family
  • intimacy
  • relational messages
  • self-disclosure
  • social penetration model
  • Johari Window
  • dialectical model
  • altruistic lies
 
  1. Interpersonal relationships take several forms.
    1. Friendships vary on the following dimensions: youthful versus mature; short versus long term; low versus high disclosure; doing-oriented versus being-oriented; low versus high obligation; frequent versus occasional contact; same versus other sex; in-person versus mediated.
      • is a collection of people who share affection and resources and who think of themselves and present themselves as a family.
      • Romantic relationships manifest
          , a state of closeness between two (or sometimes more) people created in multiple ways: physically, intellectually, emotionally, and via shared activities. Five love languages characterize intimacy styles: affirming words, quality time, acts of service, gifts, and physical touch.
        • Mark Knapp identifies ten stages in romantic relationships: initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, terminating.
      • Interpersonal relationships are characterized by different types of communication.
        1. Content messages focus on the subject being discussed;
            express feelings and attitudes such as affinity, respect, immediacy, and control.
          • Metacommunication describes messages that refer to other messages
            • is the process of deliberately revealing significant information about oneself that would not normally be known by others. Two models of self-disclosure are the
                and the
                  .
                • The
                    takes the perspective that people in virtually all interpersonal relationships must deal with equally important, simultaneous, and opposing forces such as connection and autonomy, predictability and novelty, and openness versus privacy. Strategies for managing dialectical tensions include denial, disorientation, selection, alternation, polarization, segmentation, moderation, reframing, and reaffirmation.
                    • involve deception intended to be unmalicious, or even helpful, to the people to whom they are told. Self-serving lies are attempts to manipulate the listener into believing something that is untrue—not primarily to protect the listener, but to advance the deceiver’s agenda. Evasions aren’t outright mistruths but evade full disclosure by being deliberately vague.

                   

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