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Comm St Final

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How men feel about love
men portrayed as logical. supposed to love with detachment. not supposed to admit love for other men. higher on erotic and ludic love. no dif on agapic love. more emphasis on romance. men daydream more about past relationships than women.
How women feel about love
women portrayed as emotional. supposed to love intensely. women indicate greater love for same sex friends than men. permitted to admit with greater freedom to communicate their love for other women. higher on manic, pragmatic, and storgic love. no dif on agapic love. women have first romantic experience earlier than men in both infatuation and first time in love. married women had a more realistic (less romantic) conception of love than married men. women break up more often due to interest in other men.
Accomodating
willing to help; obliging. provide lodging or sufficient space for.
types of power
Referent power: have when others wish to be like you or be identified with you.
Legitimate power: when others believe you have the right. (by virtue of your position)
Expert power: when they see you as having expertise or knowledge.
information or persuasion power: when they see you as having the ability to communicate logically and persuasively.
reward and coercive power: over others if you have the ability to reward them.
personal power: who the person is.
argumentativeness
a willingness to argue for a point of view, to speak one's mind.
love
an interpersonal process in which you feel a closeness, a caring, a warmth, and an excitement for another person.
friendship
an interpersonal relationship between two persons that is mutually productive, established, and maintained through perceived mutual free choice, and characterized by mutual positive regard.
mentoring relationships
a relationship in which an experienced individual helps to train one who is less experienced.
avoidance of conflict
choosing between 2 undesirable choices. an unproductive interpersonal conflict strategy in which you take mental or physical flight from the actual conflict.
how collectivist and individualist people use conflict
individualist- more likely to cause conflict with someone from their culture.
collectivist- more likely to cause conflict with someone not from their culture.
types of relationships
one to one, one to many, many to many. acquaintances, friends, intimates
types of conflict
internal vs external. man vs. man; man vs. self; man vs. nature; man vs. society
types of aggressiveness
non assertiveness, assertiveness, and aggressiveness.
tactics for influencing others
1. rational persuasion
2. inspirational appeals
3. consultation
4. ingratiating tactics
5. personal appeals
6. exchange tactics
7. coalition tactics
8. pressure tactics
9. legitimating tactics
types of avoidance
1. working to the rules
2. playing dumb
3. depersonalization
4. stalling
(avoidance, non negotiation)
types of force
force and talk, face detracting and face enhancing strategies.
types of hats for critical thinking
the fact hat- focuses on facts and figures that bear on the problem.
the feeling hat- focuses on attention on the emotional responses to the problem.
The negative argument hat- devil's advocate.
the positive benefits hat- look at the upside
the creative new idea hat- focuses on new ways of looking at the problem.
the control of thinking hat- helps you analyze what you're doing.
online communication problems
-sending commercial messages to those who didn't request them.
-sending messages to an entire listserv when they're only relevant to one member.
-spamming
-flaming
-trolling
friendship in individualist and collectivist cultures
are closer in collectivist than individualist. they foster development of close friendship bonds. collectivist are expected to help others which in return create closer ties.
signals of cohesiveness
creating certain behaviors, choices in special movements, turn taking and requesting,listening, showing familiarity and feelings to other, idenitification, departure. languages like we, joking and laughing, body expression of liking, early arrival and late departure, sharing, and standing conflicts,
group think
going along with the group's decision. janice: cohesiveness that doesn't look at alternatives. More pressure: more cohesiveness. Takes in goodwill rather than good decisions. 5 negative outcomes: limits discussion to alternatives, the position favored is never restudies to seek pitfalls, threats outside group don't get taken seriously, mutual attraviness in group, shared group experience.
group decisions
intra (decisions involving those commitments that we don't share with others in group) entre (decisions that involve others directly)
3 latitudes
acceptance, rejection, non-commitment
powerless speech
tentative, indirect, hedges, hesitations. (most cultures of used more frequently by women. Stated by muted group theory)
hedges: kinda disappointed instead of saying im very disappointed, um (hesitations), intensifiers (im really glad to see you vs im very glad) polite forms (using sir and mam) tag questions (redirecting with a question), disclaimers, rising inflections
Bem
masculinity and feminity cant be on a continual: roles that people play out these days than in the past.
- Mas: highly masculine
- Fem: highly feminine
- Androgenous: combination (ellen d)
- Undiff: don't have high either (hard to find)
Davis
different clusters of love: passion, (exclusiveness, desire, preoccupation, difficulty concentrating), caring (sacrifices),
5 dimensions of love
intensity, extensionally, duration, purity, adequacy.
Social Judgement Theory
based on early psych. Research on person's judgement of weights, brightness, and light. Individuals judge messages that they learned thru psychological social judgement. Are based on past experiences. Internal anchor is always present and influences how we respond to messages. More ones ego the stronger the anchor will be for you to stand up for yourself.
gender roles
social and psychological and masculine and femine behavior. watching others, learned as a child.
indirect
interdependence, goals, norms, structured patterns, perceptions,
direct
observable group charact; communication, space, time,
Hirokawa
group errors often arise in communication in the group by members being persuaded by other members wanting power.
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