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Chapter 7
Understanding Interpersonal
Communication in Relationships
Marital Problems
Managing Conflict
Communication Principles
Appropriately Be aware of
adapt your your
message to communication
others
Initiating Relationships
Interpersonal Communication
Chapter 7: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
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.
Chapter 7: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
What Is Interpersonal
Communication?
IPC involves quality.
impersonal communication
Initiating Relationships
Interpersonal Attraction Defined
degree to which you desire to form or maintain
an IP relationship
Elements of IP Attraction
Similarity
Physical and Sexual
Attraction
Proximity
Complementarity
inclusion
control
affection
Chapter 7: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
Immediacy
Reducing Uncertainty
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
Chapter 7: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
Models of Self-Disclosure
Social Penetration
developed by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor
Models of Self-Disclosure
The Social Penetration Model
Early in a relationship As the relationship develops
Very Very
Intimate Intimate
Intimate Superficial
Chapter 7: Understanding Interpersonal Communication
Models of Self-Disclosure
Johari Window
reflects various stages of relational
development, degrees of self-awareness, and
others’ perceptions of us
Known to
Others OPEN BLIND
Not
Known to
HIDDEN UNKNOWN
Others
Checking Out Our
Interpersonal
Hunches