Chapter 7 TF

Assertiveness and affirming oneself involves the same kinds of communication across all cultures.

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Men and women, as groups, self-disclose with equal frequency and depth.

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Men generally talk more about personal feelings, especially their shortcoming or self-doubts.

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Reciprocity of self-disclosures is especially important after a relationship has become established.

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The happiest dating and married partners feel that they do not invest equally in their relationship compared to their partner.

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The tensions of relational dialectics keep relationships stagnant because they increase interpersonal friction and stress.

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When we disagree with someone, we disconfirm her or him.

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In interpersonal relationships it is as important to affirm and accept yourself as to affirm and accept others.

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Investments are what we put into relationships that we could not retrieve if the relationship were to end.

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Investments cannot be recovered, so the only way to reap the benefits of your investments is to stick with a relationship.

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Most people feel defensive when others communicate in neutral ways that suggest the others are distanced and uninvolved with them.

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Of the many influences, four are particularly critical for building and sustaining satisfying personal relationships: investment, commitment, trust, and comfort with relational dialectics.

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Understanding communication climates will give you insight into why you feel relaxed and comfortable in some of your relationships and uneasy and defensive in others.

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Unlike passion or attraction, which arise in the present, commitment links partners together in the future.

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Westerners often disclose personal information to casual friends and acquaintances, whereas Japanese tend to disclose only to very close friends.

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When talking with people with disabilities, you may offer assistance, but don't provide it unless your offer is accepted.

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When you talk with people who use a wheelchair or crutches, try to position yourself at their eye level and in front of them to allow good eye contact.

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When we perceive ourselves as investing more than our partner, we tend to be dissatisfied and resentful. When we perceive our partner as investing more than we are, we may feel guilty. Thus, perceived inequity erodes satisfaction and communication.

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Communication researchers report that evaluative communication evokes defensiveness.

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Few of us feel what Gibb called "psychologically sage" when we are the targets of judgments.

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All of our relationships are very complex and are shaped by numerous factors.

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Americans rely more on friends than do Russians, Koreans, or Turks.

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Commitment is a decision to remain in a relationship. Notice that commitment is defined as a decision, not a feeling.

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Communication climate is the overall feeling or emotional mood between peoplewarm or cold, safe or anxious, comfortable or awkward, accepting or rejecting, open or guardedthat is shaped by verbal and nonverbal interaction between people.

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