Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nonverbal Communication, Communication, Gender Role
13 Sep 2013
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Willingness to give of oneself and to accept what others want to give them: share ideas, feelings, time, need. Self-concept and self-esteem: positive self-concept and healthy level of self-esteem help us love and respect others, using actual words and actions of what they did well raises self- esteem. Friendship characteristics: companionship, respect, acceptance, help, trust, loyalty, mutuality, reciprocity. Love one of most basic and profound human emotions. Pleasure and pain of love: love can be state of excitement, subject to wildly fluctuating feelings of joy and despair. Transformation of love: human relationships change over time, as long as one person is in love, relationship has fighting chance. If rejected person, give time to resolve anger and pain. Nonverbal communication: ability to interpret nonverbal messages, 70% of communication. Gender and communication: men competitive way to establish dominance. Don"t think of comments as personal attacks. Take a break: women- affiliative way to establish friendship. Try to be calm when approaching conflict.
