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Interpersonal CommunicationLecture Pertaining to PPTChapter 7We engage in interpersonal communication more than any other form of communication.SHOW COMIC STRIP: 1. Marital problems2. Confessions3. Conflict managementCommunication PrinciplesSLIDE: UNDERSTANDING INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONAgenda: -What is interpersonal communication?-Initiating Relationships-Maintaining relationships through-Interpersonal communicationSLIDE: WHAT IS INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION?-Interpersonal communication is a special form of unmediated human communication that occurs when we interact simultaneously with another person and attempt to mutually influence each other, usually for the purpose of managing relationships. Interpersonal Communication Involves Quality-Interpersonal communication occurs not just when we interact with someone, but when we treat the other as a unique human being.-Conversely, impersonal communication occurs when we treat people as objects or respond to their roles ratherthan to who they are as unique people. Interpersonal Communication Occurs Simultaneously-While you are talking and your date is listening, for example, you are also observing your date’s nv cues – eye contact, clothing, body posture, and facial expressions. Interpersonal Communication Involves Mutual Influence-This means that both partners are affected by the interaction.-Example: During dinner you ask your date where he/she is from, and you assume your date heard you. If so, you’ve both been affected by the question. But if your date did not hear you then interpersonal communication has not really occurred. Interpersonal Communication Helps Manage Relationships-Relationships: are ongoing connections we make with others through interpersonal communication.-Relationships form for different reasons.-Relationships of circumstance form situationally – simply because our lives overlap with others’ lives in someway or because a situation brings us into contact. (relationships with family, teachers, coworkers)-In contrast, when we seek out and intentionally develop relationships, those are termed relationships of choice.-include friends, lovers, relational partners.-categories are not mutually exclusive – they can evolve into the other.SLIDE: INITIATING RELATIONSHIPS Interpersonal attraction: Why We Like Whom We Like-Attraction, in general, is a motivational state that causes someone to think, feel, and behave in a positive manner toward another person.-More specifically, interpersonal attraction is the degree to which you desire to form and possibly maintain an interpersonal relationship with another person.-Interpersonal attraction occurs in both the early and later stages of relational development.-Short-term initial attraction: is the degree to which you sense a potential for developing an interpersonal relationship. (crush on a classmate)-Long-term maintenance attraction: is the type that sustains relationships like you best friendships or marriage. It refers to a level of liking or positive feelings that motivate you to maintain or escalate a relationship.SLIDE: ELEMENTS OF IP ATTRACTIONo Similarity-Attraction increases if we have like characteristics, values, attitudes, interests, and personality traits with another person.-You may also be attracted more to persons who are similar to you in age, intelligence, and life goals.-In the initial stages of a relationship, we try to emphasize positive information about ourselves to create a positive and attractive image. We reveal those aspects of ourselves that we believe we have in common with the other person, and the other person does the same.o Physical and Sexual Attraction-Physical: this form of attraction relates to finding another person’s physical self appealing.-That appeal may be based on height, size, skin tone and texture, clothing, hairstyle, makeup, vocal qualities, gestures, and so forth.-Sexual: this form involves the desire to have sexual contact with a certain person-You may be physically attracted to someone but not sexually attracted.-Each culture teaches and perpetuates its own definition of physical ideal.-Our perceptions about others’ physical attractiveness reduces relationship possibilities. This means that, in general, while we may be attracted to arrange of persons, we tend to seek out individuals who represent the same level of physical attractiveness as ourselves. This is termed the matching hypothesis.o Proximity-We are more likely to be interpersonally attracted to people who are physically close to us rather than farther away.-physical proximity increases communication opportunities.o Complementarity-We may be attracted to persons with abilities, interests, and needs that differ from our own but that balance or round out our own.-Example: if you are highly disorganized by nature (and that is fine by you), you might be attracted to someone who is very organized because you appreciate that person’s sense of structure.-Social psychologist Will Schutz identified three interpersonal needs that motivate us to form and maintain relationships with others: inclusion, control, and affection.-inclusion: represents the need to include others in our activities or to be included in theirs.-control: represents the need to make decisions and take responsibility or the level of willingness to accept others’ decision making.-Affection: represents the need to be loved and accepted by others or the willingness to give love and acceptance to others.SLIDE: COMMUNICATING OUR ATTRACTION-The amount of interaction we have with someone indicates the level of attraction in the relationship.-When we are attracted to people, we use both indirect and direct strategies to communicate our liking though nv and verbal cues.-NV cues are often referred to as immediacy: feelings of liking, pleasure, and closeness communicated by such nv cues as eye contact, forward lean, touch, and open body orientation.-Immediacy behaviors work to reduce the physical and psychological distance between persons.SLIDE: GETTING THE FIRST CONVERSATION GOINGo Reducing Uncertainty-Uncertainty reduction theory: a driving human motivation to increase predictability by reducing the unknownin one’s circumstances.-Communication researchers Berger, Calabrese, and Bradac contend that this driving motivation among humans to reduce our uncertainty prompts us to communicate. We typically respond to uncertainty in three ways – usingpassive, active, and/or


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