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| evaluative and descriptive information about the self, shared intentionally, that another would have trouble finding out without being told |
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| personal facts, usually socially approved characteristics, we make part of our public image |
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| assessments, both good and bad, that we make about ourselves, including our personal values and our interests, fears, and concerns |
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| information that may sound personal to another person but that is relatively easy for us to tell |
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| information we feel we are taking a risk telling another |
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| the level of intimacy inherent in a topic |
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| having both masculine and feminine traits |
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| the tendency to respond in kind to another's self-disclosure |
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| the tendency for us to return another's self-disclosure with one that matches it in level of intimacy |
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| a strategy for dealing with dialectic tensions in a relationship that allows us to choose opposite poles of the dialectic at different times |
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| a strategy for dealing with dialectic tensions ina relationship that allows us to isolate separate arenas, such as work and home, for using each pole in the opposition |
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| a strategy for dealing with dialectic tensions in a relationship that allows us to choose one of the opposite poles of a dialectic and ignore our need for the other |
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| a strategy for dealing with dialectic tensions in a relationship that allows us to synthesize the opposites. can take three forms: neutralizing, disqualifying, and reframing |
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| a strategy for coping with dialectic tensions in a relationship that allows us to strike a compromise between the two opposing poles of a dialectic |
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| a strategy for coping with dialectic tensions in a relationship by exempting certain topics from discussion |
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| issues that are out of bounds for discussion |
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| a model of self-disclosure and relational development that illustrates how sharing increasingly more personal information intensifies a relationship's intimacy level |
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| a dimension of self-disclosure that indicates the number of topics discussed within a relationship |
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| a dimension of self-disclosure indicating how much detail we provide about a specific topic |
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| a model used to understand the process of self-disclosure consisting of a square with four panels that provides a pictorial representation of how "known" we are to ourselves and others |
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| in the Johari Window, the pane that includes all the information about us that we know and that we have shared with others through disclosures |
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| in the Johari Window, the pane that includes the information about ourselves we are aware of but that we have chosen not to disclose |
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| in the Johari Window, the pane that includes information others know about us that we are unaware of |
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| in the Johari Window, the pane that includes the information that neither we nor others are aware of about ourselves |
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| a therapeutic release of tensions and negative emotion as a result of self-disclosing |
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