Intro to Interpersonal Comm
Dimensions of Interpersonal Relationships
Why We Form Realationships
Communication Goals
Intimacy
Affinity
Time
Control
Context
Competence (we like to be around talented people)
Disclosure (revealing things about yourself can help build liking)
Reciprocal Attraction (we are attracted to people like us)
Proximity (being near someone frequently often builds liking)
Complementary (opposites attract)
Rewards (a somewhat economic model called the social exchange theory which suggests that we seek out people who can give us rewards that are greater than or equal to the costs we encounter in dealing with them)
Similarity (we tend to like people who act like us)
Appearance
Relational Goals: to maintain positive relationships with those around us
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Self-Presentation Goals: Adapt our presentation to the given context.
Instrumental Goals: to gain compliance/ get someone to do something for you.
Cultural Aspects of Interpersonal Communication
The relationship schemata is a set blueprints or plans that show the inner workings of a relationship. Just like a schematic or diagram for assembling a new computer desk helps you put it together, relationship schemata guide us in how we believe our interpersonal relationships should work and how to create them.
Relationship cultures are the climates established through interpersonal communication that are unique to the relational partners but based on larger cultural and social norms