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| Interpersonal relationships |
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| a meaningful connection, such as friendship, between two persons |
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| William Schutz's theory focused on how relationships meet inclusion, control, and affection needs |
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| the need for social contact |
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| the perceived discrepancy between desired and achieved social realationships |
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| the need to feel we are capable and responsible and are able to exert power and influence in our realationships |
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| the need to experience emotionally close realationships |
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| Serial construction of meaning model |
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| Duck's observation that commonality, mutuality, and equivalence result in shared meaning. |
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| communication designed to open the channels of communication |
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| a type of informal, conversational network existing in organizations |
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| the network through which unverified information is spread |
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| the number of topics you discuss with another person |
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| a measure of how central the topics you discuss with another person are to your self-concept |
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| Social penetration theory |
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| the theory that states that our relationships begin with relatively narrow breadth and shallow depth and develop over time |
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| the process of revealing to another person information about the self that he or she would not otherwise know |
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| Communication privacy management theory |
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| theory that describes the establishment of the boundaries and borders that we decide others may or may not cross |
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| the relationship stage during which contact is first made |
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| the relationship stage during which we begin to probe the unknown, often through the exchange of small talk |
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| the realtionship stage during which two people become good friends |
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| the realationship stage in which two people are indentified as a couple |
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| the realationship stage in which two people are make a formal commitment to each other |
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| The realationship stage in which two people indentified as a couple seek to regain unique identities |
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| The realationship stage in which both the quaility and the quantity of coomunication between two people decrease |
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| the realationship stage during which communication is at a standstill |
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| the realationship stage during which the participants intentionally avoid contact |
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| the realationship stage during which the realationship ends |
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| a mourning process composed of five stages: denial, guilt, depression, and acceptance |
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| cost benefits/ social exchange theory |
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| the theory that we work to maintain a realationship as long as the benefits we recieve outweigh the costs |
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| tensions that occur when opposing goals meet |
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| an expectation of the kinds of rewards and profits we believe we ought to derive froem a realationship |
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| comparsion level for alternatives |
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| the comparing of rewards derived from a current realationship with one we expect to get from an alternative realationship |
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| use purposefully vague lenguage to finesse a response |
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| tolerance of vulnerability |
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| the degree of trust you place in another person to accept information you disclose without hurting you or the realationship |
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| messages designed to upset or to cause emotional pain that further hampers trust |
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| realating with persons via e-mail, chat rooms, and instantr messaging |
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