COMM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Physical Body, Irreversible Process, Silent Treatment

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Concerned with the questions of who we choose to have relationships with. The process of how relationships are formed, maintained. Assumption: characteristics of individuals drive relationship formation and stability. Aspects of individual personality and behaviors that determine whether or not we will have a relationship. Proximity-location, distance, geography, state you live in is apart of your geography- opportunity to interact and meet people. People we grew up with, go to school with later who you work with. Similarity- things that the two have in common. We look for others with things we have in common. Birds of a feather flocked together- people tend to date and have relationships with people they are similar to. Other people can provide things that we don"t have ourselves. When people have something we don"t have, personality characteristic that we don"t have. These cause us to seek out other people: unpleasant.