COMM 128 UCSB

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Low intergroup and high interpersonal communication

Communication based on personal identities (relationship between two old friends)

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High intergroup and low interpersonal communication

Communication based on group identities (watching the news about someone who been arrested)

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Ingroup

Group with which an individual identifies with

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Minimal Group Paradigm

an experiment where they split people based on their liking and they start to degrade eachother.

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Social Identity Theory

sense of who we are based on the groups or categories we belong to
We identify with groups(feel an attachment).

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social cognition

us vs them thinking, stoping thinking as an individual and starts thinking as a group

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Downward Comparison

Comparing oneself to those perceived as worse.

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Interpersonal communication

is defined by unique qualities of individuals
Two friends chatting with each other about their life

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Group Hierarchy

Ranking of groups based on power and status.

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Communication Strategies

Methods to maintain positive group identity.

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Group Life

Defined by power dynamics and social status.

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Group

Individuals sharing common beliefs and values.

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Obligatory Interdependence

Dependence on others for survival and success.

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Social Categories

the categories or stereotypes individuals employ during person perception and impression formation(how we view others)

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Social Identity

those parts of individuals' self-concepts derived from groups and social categories(how we view ourselves)

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Self-Concept

Mental representation of what makes us who we are

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Salient Identity

Social identity that is in our mind

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Chronically Salient

Identity consistently present in one's mind.

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Temporarily Salient

Identity activated in specific contexts.

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Positive Distinctiveness

Our drive to differentiate our group from other groups in a positive way (what makes my group better than other)

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High interpersonal and high intergroup

communication based on both group and personal identities (sister and bother aruging about abortion)

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low intergroup and low interpersonal

communication where both personal and group interactions interactions are irrelevant. (you and the store clerk)

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Outgroup

Group with which an individual does not identify with

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Ingroup Favoritism

Preference for one's own group over others.

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Outgroup Derogation

Negative attitudes towards groups not identified with.

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Upward Comparison

Comparing oneself to those perceived as better.

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Intergroup Communiation

is defined by groups or social categories people identify with
When the two friends get their politics involved with what they are talking about

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Need to Differentiate

Desire to establish uniqueness from other groups.

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Intergroup Communication

Communication between different social groups.

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Social Media Influence

Impact of social platforms on group identity.

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Belonging and Pride

Emotional connection derived from group membership.

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Ascribed Identities

Identities inherited at birth, like gender.

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Acquired Identities

Identities gained through experiences over time.

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Shared Identity

Common social identity enhancing communication effectiveness.

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Conflict

Disagreement arising from differing group identities.

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identification

how much are you attached to that identity

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Internal vs external identities

Internal- social identity is what it means to the person to be apart of the group
External- how other people place you into buckets

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Communication Boundaries

Distinctions between 'us' and 'them' in groups.

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Using SIT carefully

1. identity choice
2. Groups and categories that lack meaning
3. Critiquing the system of power
4. multiple identities

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Intersectionality

Overlapping identities affecting experiences of discrimination.

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Strategies for maintaining positive group identity

Leave the group
Downward Comparison
Devaluing dimension making in-group bad
Focusing on dimension making in-group good
Change the group hierarchy

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Permeability of group boundaries

Can you switch teams?
High permeability- easy to switch
Low Permeability- hard to switch

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Security/legitimacy of the status quo

Can you change which group is more powerful? Is the arrangement between groups fair?

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Identification with the ingroup?

How committed are you to your group?
When threaten it matter if it is a big deal to you or not because it is based on how you will act
low identification- if someone makes fun wot affect you
high identification- if someone make fun will hurt

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Social Mobility

Group boundaries permeable + Status Quo secure/legit + Identification low
ex- the fake president switching between when talking to black people vs white

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Social Creativity

Group boundaries impermeable + Status quo secure/legit + identification high
Push aside the identity thread and instead focus on something good about our group

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Social Competition

Group boundaries impermeable + status quo insecure/illegit + Identification high
When a group member fights about against a identity threat

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Realistic threat

Risk to the in group safety, economy, politics, or well in

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Identity Threat

Something that makes you feel negative about your group identity

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Symbolic Threat

Risk to non material good like the in group morals values norms attitude and esteem.

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Prototypes

Our mental image of someone with a specific identity

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High comparative fit

Helps explain similarities and differences, prototypes are useful here, group of children with one from a different country

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Low comparative fit

Social categories doesn't help decide similarities or difference, prototype is not useful here, group of children all from the same country

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High normative fit

When a person fits there stereotype, a male mechanic(traits of being a mechanic align with being a male)

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Low Normative Fit

A female mechanic(traits of the job that don't align with the person who is doing the job)

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Depersonalization

Stop using unique characteristics to see a person identity and start relying on the prototypes.

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Communication Accommodation Theory

Framework for understanding adjustment people make to create maintain or decrease social distance

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Convergence

Move to be more similar with conversation partner , decrease social distance and gain social approval

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Divergence

Move to be different than conversation partner, increase social distance

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maintence

Sustaining one default communication style, maintain social distance

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Under Accomodation

Recognize what people want but don't give to them( we give them less)

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Over Accomodation

Give people too much of what we think they want, people feel you are being condescending toward them

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Stereotype

Applications of a prototype when encountering groups of people

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gender

The different characteristics that begin a person as masculine or feminine

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Referential Communciation

-facts, ideas, and emotions
- "I am goign to tell you something and when I tell you something it is infrmation I want you to get from it
-Information I want you to know

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Initial orientaton

we all enter and encounter with an oritenation with ourselves and the other person we are communicating with

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Upward Convergence

-shift to more prestigious speech to match somone from a higher status group
-interviewer from high status group and interviewee from lower status

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Downward convergence

shift to less prestigious speech to match someone from a lower status
-politicians who are more powerful than average person but like to act like the average person

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Upward divergence

-shift to more prestigious speech to be different from someone from a lower status group
-how adults speaker to younger children

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Downward divergence

-shift to less prestigious speech to be different from someone of a higher status group
-people in the deaf community using accessive sign language

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Types of accomodation- Partial vs Full

-full can be perceived as negative and not genuine

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Affective Motivation

-decrease social distance
-EXCEPT- when idenities are threated

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Cognitive Motivation

-Improving comprehension

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Communcation theory of identity

-all of the things we do in communication become part of our idenitity
—social relations and roles are internalized by individuals as idenitity through communication

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Personal Identity- CTI layer

-who am I?
-how an individual defines themselves
-this is our twitter bio

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Relational identity- CTI layer

-who am i to other?
-Idenitiy formed through relationships with others

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Enacted identity- CTI layer

-How do I perform my idenities?
-does it fit with my roleplaying

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Communal Identity- CTI layer

-How does my community define my identity
-we learn about this layer from our friends and family

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Interpenetration

the process of blending or uniting elements of identity

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Identity Gaps (CTI)

-when parts of you identity dont align with each other
-ex: people who hold a LGBTQ+ identity and a heavy religion identitiy(communal identity of being jewish conflict with personal)

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Social Category Communication

-signaling identity, group membership
-was of signaling about social categories we carry or belong to
-groups I want you to know I belong to

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