1. UNIT II: INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
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2. Understanding Interpersonal Communication in Relationships
Chapter 7
Understanding Interpersonal Communication in Relationships

3. Marital Problems

4. Managing Conflict

5. Communication Principles
Be aware of your
communication
Appropriately
adapt your
message to others
Effectively use and
interpret verbal
messages
Listen and respond thoughtfully to others
interpret nonverbal

6. Understanding Interpersonal Communication
What Is Interpersonal Communication?
Initiating Relationships
Maintaining Relationships Through
Interpersonal Communication

7. What Is Interpersonal Communication?
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What Is Interpersonal Communication?
Interpersonal communication is a special form of unmediated human communication that occurs when we interact simultaneously with another person and attempt to mutually influence each other, usually for the purpose of managing relationships.

8. What Is Interpersonal Communication?
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What Is Interpersonal Communication?
IPC involves quality.
impersonal communication
IPC involves simultaneous interaction between individuals.
IPC involves mutual influence between individuals.
IPC is the fundamental means we use to manage our relationships.

9. IMPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

10. Initiating Relationships
Chapter 7: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
Initiating Relationships
Interpersonal Attraction Defined
degree to which you desire to form or maintain an IP relationship
Short-Term Initial Attraction
potential for development
Long-Term Maintenance Attraction
sustains relationships

11. Elements of IP Attraction
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Similarity
Physical and Sexual Attraction
Proximity
Complementarity
inclusion
control
affection

12. Communicating Our Attraction
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Direct and Indirect Strategies
Immediacy
Verbal and Nonverbal Cues

13. Getting That First Conversation Going
Reducing Uncertainty
uncertainty reduction theory
passive, active, interactive strategies

14. Getting That First Conversation Going
What Do You Say First?
The Art and Skill of Asking Great Questions
conversational narcissism/self-absorbed communicator style
The Art and Skill of Giving and Receiving Compliments

15. Maintaining Relationships Through IPC
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Maintaining Relationships Through IPC
Self-Disclosure Defined
we voluntarily provide information to others that they would not learn if we did not tell them
Reciprocity in Self-Disclosure
Appropriateness in Self-Disclosure
Assessing the Risks of Self-Disclosure
Self-Disclosure, Intimacy, and Gender

16. Models of Self-Disclosure
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Models of Self-Disclosure
Social Penetration
developed by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor
illustrates how much and what kind of information we reveal in various stages of relationships
circles represent breadth and depth of penetration
each relationship represents a degree of social penetration

17. Models of Self-Disclosure
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Models of Self-Disclosure
The Social Penetration Model
Superficial
Early in a relationship
Intimate
Very
As the relationship develops
Very
Intimate

18. Models of Self-Disclosure
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Models of Self-Disclosure
Johari Window
reflects various stages of relational development, degrees of self-awareness, and others’ perceptions of us
square window represents yourself
the self encompasses everything about you, including things you don’t realize

19. Models of Self-Disclosure
The Johari Window Model
OPEN
BLIND
HIDDEN
UNKNOWN
Known to
Others
Not Known to Others
Known to Self
Not Known to Self

20. Checking Out Our Interpersonal Hunches