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Impervious response

Doesn't acknowledge the other persons message

Don't care

Interrupting

Beginning to speak before the other person has finished talking irrelevant responses

Irrelevant responses

Comment that is unrelated to what the other person just said

Tangential response

Instead of ignoring the speakers remarks completely, the other party uses them as a starting point for a different topic

Impersonal response

Loaded with clichés and other statements that never truly respond to the speaker

Ambiguous responses

Contain messages with more than one meaning, leaving the other party unsure of the responders position

Incongruous response

Contains two messages that seem to deny or contradict each other

Disagreeing messages

"You're wrong"

Complaining

When communicators aren't prepared to argue but still want to register dissatisfaction

Argumentativeness

Presenting and defending positions on issues well attacking positions taken by others

Spiral

A reciprocating communication pattern in which each person's message reinforces the other

Escalatory conflict spirals

One attack leads to another until a skirmish escalates into a full-fledged battle

De-escalatory conflict spirals

Rather than fighting the party slowly lessen their dependence on each other, withdrawal, and become less invested in the relationship.

Defensiveness

Guarding oneself from attack

Face-threatening Acts

Messages that seem to challenge the image we want to project

Assertive message format

A method for speaking your mind in a clear, direct, yet nonthreatening assertive way that expresses your needs, thoughts, and feelings clearly and directly without judging or dictating to others

Interpretation statement

Describes the meaning you've attached to the others person's behaviors

Feeling statements

Reporting behavior and sharing your interpretation

Consequence statement

Explains what happens as a result of the situation you describe so far

Intention statements

The final element of the Assertive message format