COMM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Penetration Theory, Uncertainty Reduction Theory, Impression Management
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Interpersonal Communication || Studying relationships between people
How do relationships develop?
Attraction
- What brings us together?
- Physical attractiveness
- Similarity
- Proximity
Reducing Uncertainty
- Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT) argues: uncertainty is uncomfortable!
- So, we attempt to get info about other person
- passively -- observe the other
- Actively -- seek info from 3rd party
- Interactively -- talk to the other
(URT: reducing uncertainty (e.g., finding similarities) increases liking
Self Disclosure
- Deliberately revealing info about oneself (see also Social Penetration Theory in txt)
- Two dimensions of disclosure
- Breath
- Depth
- More variety = more breadth
- Topics disclosed: school, family, religion, money
- Increasing levels of depth: ritualized info/social roles
- Facts unique to self
- Personal opinions/attitudes
- Deep feelings/core values
- More personal = more depth
- Functions of self-disclosure
- Intimacy management
- Impression management
- Reciprocity
- Catharsis
- Self-clarification/validation
Relational Stages
Knapp’s Staircase Model
- Differences in communication at each stage
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