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Interpersonal Comms (Comms Patterns (Content and relational messages…

- - - - Social penetration model: theory that describes how intimacy can be achieved via breadth and depth of self-disc.
        
        Breadth: range of topics
        
        Depth: level of personal info
      - Johari window: model that describes rel. between self-disc and self-awareness
        
        Four panels, left and right halves are what you know and don't know about yourself, top and bottom halves are what others know and don't know about you
    - - Is other person important to you?
      - Is disc. appropriate
      - Is risk of disc. reasonable
      - Is disc. relevant to situation at hand
      - Is disc. reciprocated
      - Will effect be constructive
      - Is self-disc. clear and understandable
  - - - Splitting up from lack of connection vs too much connection
    - - Denial
      - Disorientation
      - Selection
      - Alternation
      - Polarization
      - Segmentation
      - Moderation
      - Reframing
      - Reaffirmation
      - Relationships involve continual change and negotiation
      - Partners can be in sync in some ways, but not others
      - Some approaches are more conducive to rel. satis.
  - - - Avoid full disclosure by being deliberately vague
      - Equivocation
      - Hinting
      - Concealment
    - - Attempt to manipulate listener primarily to advance deceiver's agenda
- - - - Youthful vs mature
      - Short-term vs long-term
      - Low disclosure vs high disclosure
      - Doing-oriented vs being-oriented
      - Low obligation vs high obligation
      - Frequent contact vs occasional contact
      - Same sex vs other sex
      - In-person vs mediated
  - - - Parents and children
      - Siblings
      - Grandparents/grandchildren
  - - - Intimacy: state of closeness btwn two (or more) people. Can be manifested in several ways; physically intellectually emotionally and via shared activities
      - Women are more willing to share thoughts and feelings
      - Men often demonstrate care by doing things
      - women see sex as a way to express intimacy, men see it as a way to create intimacy
    - - Affirming words
      - Quality time
      - Acts of service
      - Gifts
      - Physical touch
    - - Developmental model: theoretical frameworks based on idea that comm patterns are different in various stages of inter. relation.
      - Initiating
        
        Experimenting
        
        Intensifying
        
        Integrating
        
        Bonding
        
        Differentiating
        
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      - Each stage requires different types of comm
      - Relational dev. involves risk and vulnerability
      - Partners can change the direction a relationship is headed
- - - - Enables comm that would not otherwise happen
      - Can feel nonthreatening
      - Can be validating
      - Often has a pause option
    - - Phubbing: combo of phone and snubbing, where people pay more attention to their phones than the people around them
      - Can diminish relationships (more tuned into tweets and texts then humans in same room)
      - Can encourage quantity over quality