COM 252 Lecture 1: COMM 252- Relationships PT 1
31 Oct 2016
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Advice column #2 due tonight by midnight. 6 stage model of relationships: contact: 2 steps. -perceptual contact: what we observe about a person from a distance. Inter actual contact: rst impression, what you learn about them after you meet them. *impression management: involvement: start forming a connection and becoming involved in their lives. Ex) hugging, kissing, building relationship, give gifts (intensify: intimacy: emotional feeling of intense closeness. Social bonding aspect- when we go public, announce to everyone. Interpersonal commitment: deterioration: intrapersonal dissatisfaction (within yourself). Can choose to dissolve or repair the relationship: repair: need to repair dissatisfaction. Interpersonal dissatisfaction; interpersonal repair (talk about the problems, i messages) Intarpersonal dissatisfaction; intrapersonal repair (repair the problems starting with you, change yourself: dissolution: breaking up. Taking yourselves out of social bonding and not committed anymore: ***not a linear process because relationships vary with speed and intensity***
