Interaction Appearance Theory And Friends
Interaction Appearance Theory and Friends
Friends is a comedy series about six young adults in their twenties living in Manhattan. Together, the friends search for love, success, and happiness as they make their best attempt at navigating through adulthood. The show features six main characters: Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, and Ross Geller. Episodes portray the friends’ romantic involvements, career issues, and humorous encounters with each other. The group helps one another take on life’s obstacles with a touch of humor as the group slowly approaches their thirties. Monica, the obsessively neat “older sister” of the group is working to find her passion in cooking. Ross, Monica’s older brother …show more content…
Rachel, a run away bride, is living off of her daddy’s money when she relocates to New York City to move in with Monica, her childhood best friend. She eventually becomes romantically involved with Ross. Ross, although introverted and somewhat goofy, is loyal, generous and highly agreeable. Ross and Rachel are a highly unlikely pair, due in part to their opposing personalities and levels of attractiveness. People are often shocked upon discovering the two are romantically involved, often questioning how on earth Ross got together with someone as stunning as Rachel. Although average in looks, Ross has an above average personality and with help from the interaction appearance theory, was able to finally win Rachel …show more content…
There are times we meet people whose physical attractiveness does not produce an interest romantically but does not exclude it as a possibility. After repeated interaction with this person, our satisfaction can exceed the original romantic criteria and transform or morph our initial perception. There are specific communication traits that stand out as either positive or negative. Positive communication traits include nonverbal expressiveness, such as smiling or listening carefully. Verbal expressions include laughing at someone’s jokes, making them feel knowledgeable, complementing them, or being informed about similar topics. Other positive traits include being outgoing, sensitive, honest, and
Friends is a comedy series about six young adults in their twenties living in Manhattan. Together, the friends search for love, success, and happiness as they make their best attempt at navigating through adulthood. The show features six main characters: Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, and Ross Geller. Episodes portray the friends’ romantic involvements, career issues, and humorous encounters with each other. The group helps one another take on life’s obstacles with a touch of humor as the group slowly approaches their thirties. Monica, the obsessively neat “older sister” of the group is working to find her passion in cooking. Ross, Monica’s older brother …show more content…
Rachel, a run away bride, is living off of her daddy’s money when she relocates to New York City to move in with Monica, her childhood best friend. She eventually becomes romantically involved with Ross. Ross, although introverted and somewhat goofy, is loyal, generous and highly agreeable. Ross and Rachel are a highly unlikely pair, due in part to their opposing personalities and levels of attractiveness. People are often shocked upon discovering the two are romantically involved, often questioning how on earth Ross got together with someone as stunning as Rachel. Although average in looks, Ross has an above average personality and with help from the interaction appearance theory, was able to finally win Rachel …show more content…
There are times we meet people whose physical attractiveness does not produce an interest romantically but does not exclude it as a possibility. After repeated interaction with this person, our satisfaction can exceed the original romantic criteria and transform or morph our initial perception. There are specific communication traits that stand out as either positive or negative. Positive communication traits include nonverbal expressiveness, such as smiling or listening carefully. Verbal expressions include laughing at someone’s jokes, making them feel knowledgeable, complementing them, or being informed about similar topics. Other positive traits include being outgoing, sensitive, honest, and