Questions:
1. What factors influence self-presentation? How do they influence self-presentation? * Personality: play big role in your sense of who you are * Gender roles * Cultural roles * Reflected appraisal: your self based on responses you get from people * Social comparison: compare you to others, how they act and that affects you. 2. What is the Johari window and how does it relate to self-presentation? * knowing a lot about yourself and aspects of your self are know to you and others * some aspects that you don’t want others to know so try to hide it. 3. What is the Dramaturgical perspective? How does it relate to self-presentation? * theatrical metaphor of stage, actor, …show more content…
What stages do relationships progress through according to Social Penetration Theory? * Relationship stages * Orientation stage * Exploratory stage * Affective stage: become part of your communication of relationship * Stable stage: where you see your self-disclosure start to die, pass honeymoon pace, lots of trust developed * Depenetration stage: optional, when you disengage the relationship. 19. Why might people choose to not disclose? * people view private as a possession.
20. What are the pros and cons of keeping secrets?
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21. How does Rawlins assess one’s tolerance of vulnerability?
22. How does Rawlins assess one’s likelihood of candor?
23. How does CPM help us understand disclosure?
24. What are the 5 assumptions about privacy that CPM is based on? * private info constitutes the content of self-disclosure * privacy boundaries establish borders btw what’s private and what’s shared, and these boundaries vary in permeability * people view private info as possession * rules coordinate control of private info * dialectical tension exists btw disclosing and maintaining privacy 25. What does it mean to say there is a dialectical tension between disclosure and