Chapter 12 Personality

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Chapter 12 overview

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self-disclosure

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What is self disclosure?

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• revealing intimate information about yourself to another person
• what you usually tell the supermarket clerk when she asks how are you today?

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what does rogers say about self disclosre?

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• facts are friendly. encouraged the transparent self. encourages clients to reveal intimate detail about themselves. this is the window to change, this is the window to a healthy self.

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disclosure reciprocity

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• the tendency to reveal information about ourselves to the same degree.
• we tend to disclose info to people we like and we like those who disclose to us
• builds trust and makes us responsive and these are important factors in reciprocity

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What does self disclosure look like in relationships

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• integral part of friendship and romantic relationships
• rule of reciprocity does not necessarily apply to close friends (trust is established)
• self disclosure in marriage can predict satisfaction

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self disclosure and trama

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• writing and talking about traumatic experiences can decrease health problems
• revealing trauma can cause elevated arousal in the short term, but has long term health benefits

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Self disclosre and social media

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• how much do you typically disclose? more or less than your social media friends?

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disposition for online sd

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• has positive longitudinal effect on sns use which in turn positively influences sd disposition.
• as age increases, amount of personal information in profiles decreases.
• those seeking a relationship disclose the greatest amount of highly sensitive and potentially stigmatizing information.

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recall your last two converstaions

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one with m one with f

rate each conversation 1-7 according to

how much you disclosed

how much they disclosed

6:3

5:6

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Kate Millet

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Men repress, women express

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Self Esteem

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the relatively global and stable evaluation of our self concepts

evaluation of self along a positive/negative continuum

can be domain specific i.e academic, athletic, musical, social relationship

low and high react differently to failure

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difference in self esteem

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low and high react differently to failure

low tend to become discouraged and unmotivated

low may self-handicap and are more concerned with self-protection

high does not cause good behavior and or grades. relationship may actually be reversed in some cases. just means that if they fail, they can easily bounce back.

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Happiness

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https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice