Interpersonal CommunicationDyadic: Between 2 people

CHARACTERISTICS

Metacommunication

Environment

Intimacy

AcquaintancesRomantic Relationships

Work RelationshipsFamily Relationships

Friendships

Types of Interpersonal Relationship

FRIENDSHIP BEHAVIOR

My Freshman YearBy: Rebekah Nathan

What is a friend?

What are the biggest problems in friendships today?

What would you do for your friends?

Theories of Relational Development

Knapp’s Developmental Model

Initiating

Experimenting

Intensifying

Integrating

Bonding Differentiating

Circumscribing

Stagnating

Avoiding

Terminating

MAINTENANCE

COMING TOGETHER COMING APART

Quickly or Slowly May Stabilize

Forward or Backward

Dialectical Model

– Competing goals (dialectical tensions)• Connection vs Autonomy• Predictability vs Novelty• Openness vs Privacy

Issues in Relationships

Self-Disclosure:

deliberately revealing personal and significant information about oneself that

would otherwise be unknown

Social Penetration Modeland Self-Disclosure

– Breadth: # of topics discussed– Depth: shift from non-revealing messages to

personal messages

– The greater the depth and breadth the more intimate the relationship.

Johari’s WindowModel of Self-disclosure

What is appropriate self-disclosure?

– Is the other person important to you?– Is the amount and type of disclosure

appropriate?– Is the risk of disclosing reasonable?– Is the disclosure relevant?– Is the disclosure reciprocated?– Will it be constructive?

Trust

What is trust?What causes you to lose trust in someone?

-To believe that someone is honest and means no harmThe Free Dictionary

• How often do you lie?

• Why do we lie?

• Is it ever okay to lie?

Lying

• Dating couples lie in about 1/3 of relationships

• College students tell their mothers lies in 50% of conversations.

• Average = 3 lies for every 10 minutes of conversation

• Many lies are altruistic lies or “white lies”