Chapter 4: Interpersonal Communication and the self

Benevolent Lie

A lie that is not malicious by the person telling it.

Equivocation

A statements that is not false but cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.

Face

The image that a person want to project to the world.

Facework

Actions that people take to perserve their images and others’ presenting.

Impression management

The communications strategies that people use to influence how others view them.

Johari window

A model that describes the relationship between self-disclosure & self-awareness.

Lie

An attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.

Perceived self

The person we believe ourselves to be in moments of candor. Can be idenitcal to or different from the presenting and dseried selves.

Presenting self

The image a person presents to other. May be identical/different from the perceived and desired selves.

Privacy management

The choices that people make to reveal/conceal information about themselves.

Reference groups

Groups that we compare ourselves to, thus influencing our self-concept & self-esteem.

Reflected appraisal

A mirroring of the judgments of others people; part of how self-concept develops.

Self-concept

The stable set of perceptions that a person holds for themselves.

Self-disclosure

The process of revealing infomration about oneself that other would not normally known by others.

Self-esteem

Evualuations of self-worth; how one feels about one’s self-concept.

Self-fulfilling prophecy

The casul relationship that occurs when a person’s expectations of an event and their behavior based on thoses expectation make outcome more likely to happen.

Significant other

A person whose opinion is important enought to affect one’s self concept strongly.

Social comparison

Evaluating oneself by comparison to other.

Social penetration model

A model that describe relationships in terms of breadth and depth.