PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pole And Polar, Positive Tone, Incrementalism
24 Jan 2020
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Complimentary needs: compatibility is relative to individual needs and matching of the relationship potential. Assesses potential for relationship to meet need to have self-image confirmed. And potential is then weighed against cost. Attraction = high outcome value (rewards exceeding costs) Expressing liking can induce reciprocation but fears can arise. Artifactual communication: clothing, things that are artificial. Our minimum social space is about 4 feet. Three main dimensions of relational conflict style: trust, intimacy, power. Benefits of maintence, eslaction and termination of relation. Learn role and appropriate use of self disclosure. Improve understanding of skills to build relationship: learn strategies to maintain relationships at a particular stage, learn choices and strategies to end relationships, increase awareness of signals to identify trouble in relationships. Providing info to others that they would not learn if we did not tell them. Serves relational function: is how we develop relationships, define our relationships by degree of mutual self-disclosure.
