Fighting Dirty
A disagreement between two interdependent people who perceive that they have incompatible goals
Conflict
Predictive expectancies
These are actions that violate implicit or explicit relational rules (e.g., infidelity, deception).
Relational transgressions
This framework examines conceptual relationships predicting commitment and stability.
Investment Model of Relationship Maintaining Behavior
This theory concerns the idea that people often want different outcomes out of an interaction, strategize about how to achieve those outcomes and implement communication to achieve those outcomes.
Goals plans action theory
This involves using verbally aggressive behaviors such as name-calling
Competitive conflict style
These are what we HOPE will occur.
Prescriptive expectancies
These downplay the severity of the transgression (e.g., “it was unintentional,” justification, minimizing one’s feelings)
Transgression-minimizing messages
This framework explains how people respond to problems or dissatisfying events in their relationships- either via passive/active/constructive/destructive means.
Model of accommodation
This model is helpful for patients to understand how to get the most out of communicating with healthcare providers.
PACE model (present info, ask questions, check understanding, express concerns)
This involves creative problem-solving and finding new solutions that meet both parties’ needs
Collaborating
EVT proposes that our expectations of social life are influenced by these three things.
Communicator, relationship, and the context.
This type of hurtful message involves pointed statements about one’s preferences or hopes (e.g., “I wish you were more like your brother”.
Expressions of desire
After being caught cheating, Barry makes it up to his partner by bringing him flowers every day. This is an example of this remedial strategy in action.
Appeasement/Compensation
Romeo and Juliet experienced a deadly case of this when their parents made their love forbidden.
Psychological reactance
When a person builds a metaphorical barrier around herself or himself, shuts down, and withdraws from interaction with another person; one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Stonewalling
When someone violates our expectations, this is what determines whether we will view the violation as a pleasant or unpleasant surprise.
Communicator reward valence/value
According to the evolutionary hypothesis for infidelity, women are more hurt by this kind of infidelity.
Emotional infidelity
Catastrophe theory
This compliance-gaining strategy involves telling the persuadee that people with negative qualities would not comply with your request, and suggesting that, to avoid being like such people, this person should comply with your request.
negative altercasting
Occurs when people are able to overcome the initial tendency to retaliate in response to negative behavior and instead engage in cooperative communication to maintain their relationship.
Accommodation principle
While EVT primarily focuses on how past experiences influence expectations during communication events, this related theory considers how biological needs and individual differences in interaction styles shape what people do DURING interactions.
Interaction Adaptation Theory
This theory concerns the ways in which people alter the quality, quantity, and clarity of message content in order to deceive.
Information manipulation theory
This linear framework predicts that relationships "fade out" rather than "shatter" due to a single major indiscretion.
Process model of relationship dissolution
I may be wrong about this, but the first part of this very sentence is an example of this.
Hedge