Interpersonal Relationship Levels and Interpersonal Attraction

Berger, Charles R.; Weber, Marylin D.; Munley, Mary Ellen; Dixon, James T.

doi:10.1080/23808985.1977.11923684

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“…The lack of relationship between interactive strategies and attributional confidence in dating relationships is consistent with Gottman, Markham, and Notarius (1977) who found that married couples ask each other few questions; rather, they tend to use "mindreading" of each others' feelings to develop understanding. These results also appear to be consistent with Berger, Weber, Munley, and Dixon's (1977) finding that people judge their ''lovers'' as less understanding and reinforcing than their close friends. The present data suggest that in dating relationships similarity leads to interactive strategy use and this leads to other self-disclosure that in turn influences attributional confidence.…”

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A Cross-Cultural Test of Uncertainty Reduction Theory.

Gudykunst

Yang

Nishida³

1985

Human Comm Res

105

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A model of uncertainty reduction theory was tested that was derived from Berger and Calabrese's (1975) theory of initial interactions and recent extensions of the theory (ex., Berger, 1979;Berger & Bradac. 1982) across three relationships (acquaintances, friends, and dates) in three cultures: Japan, Korea, and the United States. The model was tested using LISRELandfound to be a reasonablefit to the data for all three relationships in all three cultures. The percentage of variance explained in attributional confidence was found to be lower for friends than for dates and acquaintances. For the United States data more variance was explained in attributional confidence in acquaintances than dates; however, thefindings were reverse for the Japanese and Koreon data. Thesefindings were discussed in light of previous research on uncertainty reduction theory and relationship development. Shortcomings of the model also were pointed out based on early critiques of the theory (e.g.. Bochner, 1978)anda recent elaboration that examined the context in which romantic relationships develop (Parks & Adelman, 1983). Berger and Calabrese's (1975) uncertainty reduction theory focuses upon initial interactions. The central construct is uncertainty and the theory explicates the relationships of several variables (e.g., similarity, attraction, amount of communication) to the reduction of uncertaintyWilliam B. Cudykunst (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1977) is an Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona State University. Seung-Mock Yang (M.A., Seoul National University, 1982; M.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1984) is a 0 1985 International Communication Assn.

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A Cross-Cultural Test of Uncertainty Reduction Theory.

Gudykunst

Yang

Nishida³

1985

Human Comm Res

105

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“…There have been numerous explanations of the bases of attraction, including social equity (Bersheid & Walster, 1969), positive reinforcement (Byrne, 1971;Byrne & Krivonos, 1976), relational differences (Berger, Weber, Munley, & Dixon, 1980), attribution processes (Regan, 1978), attitude similarity (Sunnafrank, 1983), among other factors (see Clatterbuck, 1980). We propose that interpersonal attraction can be viewed as a perceptual outcome of communication (see, also, Berg & Archer, 1983;Clatterbuck, 1980;Gilbert, 1976;McCroskey, Hamilton, & Weiner, 1974;Sunnafrank, 1984) and that perceptions of competence (appropriateness and effectiveness) are strongly associated with attractiveness, This proposition is not entirely new (see, for example, Cupach & Spitzberg, 1983;Hosman & Tardy, 1980), although the precise nature of this relationship is not clear (Glasgow & Arkowitz, 1975).…”

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Appropriateness and Effectiveness Perceptions of Conflict Strategies

1987

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This study investigates how conflict strategies and communicator gender affect two properties of communicative competence, appropriateness and effectiveness, and how these properties are associated with interpersonal attraction. In total, 361 participants read one of 12 randomly distributed conflict scripts that operationalized one of three conflict strategies (i.e., integrative, distributive, or avoidance), communicator gender, and episode type (i.e., same-versus oppositesex situation). The impact of strategy type, gender, and episode on measures of general appropriateness, specific appropriateness, and effectiveness is reported.While all of the competence properties varied due to strategy inductions, specific appropriateness was the most sensitive to strategy differences. In addition, both appropriateness variables correlated strongly, and effectiveness correlated moderately with socialand task attraction. Discussion focuses on the implications of the results for communication competence research. OMMUNICATION competence has emerged as a major concern among communication scholars (see, for example, C

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“…Thus Davis and Todd (1982) distinguished friendship from romantic relationships by using a paradigm case formulation procedure and found that romantic relationships involve more exclusiveness and fascination, with a greater criteria1 demand for loyalty and willingness to help, than do friendships. Also, Berger, Weber, Munley, and Dixon (1977) showed that close friends feel more fully understood by one another than do pairs of lovers. This clearly suggests differences in both the style and content of communication between pairs of individuals in these two classes of relationships taken as a whole.…”

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Some Evident Truths About Conversations in Everyday Relationships All Communications Are Not Created Equal

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%is article presents a program of studies that map out daily conversations and so establish a geography ofezwyday communication. A new method (the Iowa Communication Record) is offered to extend research using diary methods andfocus the researcher on communication in daily life. Three studies collectively show (a) consistent sex differences in the quality and nature of conversations across different types of relationships, (b) a consistent rank ordering of relationship types that differsfrom that intuitively included in previous models of relationship formation, and (c) a consistent difference between conversations held on different days of the week, with Wednesdays associated with greater degrees of conflictive communication. Self-disclosure is much less frequent in everyday life than assumedon the basis of laboratory work, and the predominant form ofcommunication in intimate relationships is not only nonintimate but not simply distinguishable from communication in other relationship types. Communication quality distinguishes female from male partncvs, suggesting that previous findings on preference for female partners are truly founded in communication variables, which have previously been underrated. The article shows that closer attention must in future be paid to communicative variations crented by daily events and circumstances, and the role of routine communication in daily life must be explored in future studies of social participation. ecently, it has become apparent that routine, mundane, everyday life behaviors influence a range of psychological R and communicative dimensions of interpersonal interaction, such as maintenance of relationships (Baxter & Dindia, 1990),

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Interpersonal Relationship Levels and Interpersonal Attraction

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

A Cross-Cultural Test of Uncertainty Reduction Theory.

A Cross-Cultural Test of Uncertainty Reduction Theory.

Appropriateness and Effectiveness Perceptions of Conflict Strategies

Some Evident Truths About Conversations in Everyday Relationships All Communications Are Not Created Equal

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