Complex & Consequencial
What are The Within & The Between?
Assessments we make about ourselves, others, and the world around us.
What are Judgments?
A person’s moods, emotions, feelings, and sensations that they may experience.
What is Affect?
Remembered for a long time and has a major influence on someone's life.
What are Memorable Messages?
The collaborative, interdependent process of verbal and nonverbal engagement and meaning-making between two or more people.
What is Interpersonal Communication?
Engagement based on roles or identities rather than individuality (e.g., going through a drive-thru).
Refers to the idea that every concept can be understood according to the experience or evaluation of both normative/moral values and (dys)functionality.
What is Functional Ambivalence?
The knowledge structures we have for how something is likely to unfold, particularly the “steps” of a communication episode.
What are scripts?
Admit the wrongdoing, but work to minimize the impact or claim it had a positive impact
What is Justification?
Using the process of confirmation to communicate to others that we are trying to make sense of them and their lives.
What is Communicated Perspective-Taking?
A person’s ability to communicate in ways that are effective and appropriate.
What is Communication Competence?
Normative and Functionally Productive
What is 'The Bright Side?'
Entry Phase, Personal Phase, Exit Phase
What is Uncertainty Reduction Theory?
Using narrative theories, methods, and empirical results to create interventions designed to help improve health and well-being.
What is Translational Storytelling?
Functionally and Normatively Destructive
What is 'Evil Incarnate?'
Respect for another’s humanity, restraint in how and what we say to someone else, acting responsibly to others and the larger community, and acting in ways that are considered to be well-mannered are examples of this.
What is Civil Communication?
To present an image of who we are, to create an impression of ourselves for others to believe.
What is the Self-Presentation* Goal?
We attribute our partners’ good behavior to external,
unstable, and specific causes, and attribute our partner’s negative behavior to more internal, stable, and general causes.
What is Distress-Maintaining Bias?
The more information we know about someone, the more breadth of knowledge we have about them. The more personal we get in our understanding of the other person, the greater the depth of knowledge we have.
What is Social Penetration Theory?
Channel, Noise, Feedback, Field of Experience, Encoding/Decoding, Etc.
What is The Transactional Model of Communication?
Normatively Productive and Functionally Destructive
What is 'What was Once Bright is Now Dark?'
Having a range of strategies, resisting impulsive behavior, accepting your emotions, and being willing to experience difficult emotions.
What are the Four Factors to Emotional Regulation?
We tell stories in families, relationships, and organizations to teach others about particular meanings, values, and beliefs that are important to our culture or group, and that we want to pass on.
What is Socialization?
Normatively Destructive and Functionally Productive
What is 'What was Once Dark is Now Bright?'