COMM1040 Midterm: Interpersonal Communications Reading Notes Test 4.docx

• School: Boston College
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM1040
• Professor: Bruce Morrison

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When cut off from others, we suffer: preserve our happiness and health, there is a correlation between happiness and relationship effectiveness. There is also a correlation between happiness and how long we live, with those who report feeling happy living up to 35 percent longer: the resilience of women also declines after a spouse"s death. The immune systems of widows are weaker than those of their married counterparts. This is more of a problem for men than for women because men usually have fewer close friendships: people involved in problematic relationships experience more medical problems than do those with better-functioning relationships. Heart attacks, traffic injuries, terminal illness, mortality rates. 1: meet our needs for inclusion, control, and affection. (interpersonal needs, fundamental interpersonal relations orientation: a three-dimensional theory of interpersonal behavior highlighting the needs for inclusion, control, and affection. Physiological: offer a point of reference we use in checking whether our behavior and emotional responses are culturally acceptable.