PSY 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Personal Boundaries, Plaintext, Assertiveness
7 Dec 2016
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Psy707 class notes chapter 8- interpersonal stress. Interpersonal conflict and resolution: social support and health, our interpersonal society. Conflict happens: we all have different needs, wants, desired, viewpoints, perspectives, do not measure your relationship against no conflict but rather how you resolve it. Interpersonal conflict: high-drama raising tensions and creating distance, creating distance weakens relationships, distance can arise through: Power and control tactics such as negative reciprocity and the demand-withdraw pattern: high-drama raising tensions and creating distance. Negative reciprocity: one person directs a hostile, angry, or accusatory remark toward the other which prompts a negative response in kind from the targeted person, leading to rounds of verbal attacks and counterattacks. Triangulation: two people engage in a dispute and pull in a third person: a type of game that prescribes roles and promotes drama and dishonesty. For example, young eric and lori are newly married and have a serious argument.
