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Daily Web Site: Certain ideas expressed in a few words put a stop to impudence, sarcasm, or hostility without making a scene.
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An expose of conversational terrorism cheap shot tactics to notice and avoid. HOW NOT TO TALK! Read 'em and laugh - or weep if you must.
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The International Listening Association promotes the study, development, and teaching of listening and the practice of effective listening skills and techniques.
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This site was created through Dogwood. Dogwood is a web-based, virtual learning environment at Northern Virginia Community College that is an innovative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, learning environment of teaching resources for the faculty
http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/spd110td/interper/index.html
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World Verbal Self-Defense League teaches two skills: establishing a language environment free of verbal violence; handling unavoidable verbal violence with the martial art of verbal self-defense.
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An interpersonal relationship is a social association, connection, or affiliation between two or more people. It varies in differing levels of intimacy and modes of connection, implying discovery or establishment of common ground, and may be centered around something(s) shared in common. Its study is one of the concerns of the social science known as sociology, and, to a lesser extent, of psychology and anthropology.

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Stages of Relationship Formation

1) Contact:

    a) Uncertainty reduction - through eye contact, identification, opening disclosure, etc.
    b) Perceptual - notice how a person looks at the other and their body language.
    c) Interactional cues - nodding, maintaining eye contact, etc.
    d) Invitational - encouraging the relationship (ex. asking if they want to meet up later for coffee)
    e) Avoidance strategies - if one person discloses and the other does not, minimal response, lack of eye contact, etc.

2) Involvement

    a) Feelers - hints or questions (ex. asking about family)
    b) Intensifying strategies - further the relationship (ex. meeting old friend, bringing the other to meet family, becoming more affectionate, etc.)
    c) Public - seen in public together often (ex. if in a romantic relationship, may be holding hands)

3) Intimacy -very close, may have exchanged some sort of personal belonging or something that represents further commitment. (ex. may be a promise ring in a romantic relationship or a friendship necklace symbolizing two people are best friends)

4) Deterioration - things start to fall apart. In a romantic relationship, after six months people are out of the "honeymoon stage" and start to notice flaws. The way this is dealt with determines the fate of the relationship.


Types of interpersonal relationships

Factors affecting interpersonal relationships

The discovery or establishment of common ground between individuals is a fundamental component for enduring interpersonal relationships other than familial relationship. Loss of common ground, which may happen over time, may tend to end interpersonal relationships.

Interpersonal relationships through consanguinity and affinity would persist despite the absence of love, affection, or common ground. When these relationships are in prohibited degrees, sexual intimacy in them would be the taboo of incest.

Marriage and civil union are relationships reinforced and regularized by their legal sanction to be "respectable" building blocks of society. In the United States the de-criminalization of homosexual sexual relations in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas (2003) facilitated the "mainstreaming" of gay long term relationships, and broached the possibility of the legalization of same-sex marriages in that country.

In intimate relationships there is often, but not always, an implicit or explicit agreement that the partners will not have sex with someone else monogamy. The extent to which physical intimacy with other people is accepted may vary. For example, a husband may be more receptive to his wife being physically affectionate with her female friend if she has one than with her male friend (see also jealousy).

In friendship there is some transitivity: one may become a friend of an existing friend's friend. However, if two people have a sexual relationship with the same person, they may be competitors rather than friends. Accordingly, sexual behavior with the sexual partner of a friend may damage the friendship. See love triangle.

Sexual relations between two friends may alter that relationship by either "taking it to the next level" or severing it if the sexual relationship ends. Sexual partners may also be friends: the sexual relationship may either enhance or depreciate the friendship.

The rise of popular psychology has led to an explosion of concern about one's interpersonal relationships (often simply called: "relationships"). Intimate relationships receive particular attention in this context, but Sociology recognises many other interpersonal links of greater or less duration and/or significance.

Relationships are not necessarily healthy. Examples include abusive relationships and co-dependency.

In sociology there is a hierarchy of forms of activity and interpersonal relations, which divides them into: behavior, action, social behavior, social action, social contact, social interaction and finally social relation.

Theories of interpersonal relationships

  • Social psychology has several approaches to the subject of interpersonal relationships, among them closure and also trust, as trust between parties can be mutual. This may lead to enduring relationships.
  • Social exchange theory interprets relationships in terms of exchanged benefits. The way people feel about relationships will be influenced by the rewards of the relationship, as well as rewards they may potentially receive in alternate relationships.
  • Equity theory is based on criticism of social exchange theory. Proponents argue that people care more than just maximizing rewards, they also want fairness and equity in their relationships.
  • Relational dialectics is based on the idea that a relationship is not a static entity. Instead, a relationship is a continuing process, always changing. There is constant tension as three main issues are negotiated: autonomy vs. connection, novelty vs. predictability, and openness vs. closedness.
  • Attachment styles are a completely different way of analyzing relationships. Proponents of this view argue that attachment styles developed in childhood continue to be influential throughout adulthood, influencing the roles people take on in relationships.

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