COMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Interpersonal Relationship, Social Penetration Theory, Kroger

• School: Ohio University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 1010
• Professor: Dan West

Document Summary

Involve people who are interdependent: communicating with someone at kroger is a communication exchange, not interpersonal relationship. Involves people who have interacted for some time. Need for inclusion, or becoming involved with others. Need for affection, or feelings for others. Need for control, or ability to influence other or environment: we do not like the unknown. We want someone else in our environment (cid:1) Where each person supplies something the other does not have. Where both people are very similar. (cid:1) While goal is healthy relationships : negative relationships happen. Gossip-have to have a better story about bf/gf story. Codependency-significant other wont eat without you in dining hall . Negative behaviors can lead to : abusive or controlling relationships. People try to control thoughts and behaviors: we focus on healthy behaviors, both participants have to be willing to work on these skills, everyone deserves healthy relationships (cid:1)