NSU COMM 1113

1. How do you feel meeting somebody brand new?
• Does gender have any affect on your feelings?
• Other factors that make you feel more or less
nervous when you meet someone? Status / Beauty /
Intelligence / Other things
• How important is one-on-one communication?
• Do you feel it may be more important to
develop these skills than presentational
speaking?

2. What is INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION ?
• Can you give some examples?
What is a relationship of CIRCUMSTANCE ?
• Give some examples
What is a relationship of CHOICE ?

3. Is there such a thing as:
“LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT”
• Can someone love without really knowing them?

4. When you see someone we like...
• Why don’t we just go up to them and
tell them?
• How would you respond if someone did
that to you?

5. When we meet someone for the first time,
why do we go “fishing”?
• “Do you know...?
• “Have you ever been to...?
• “Where are you from?

6. What is the difference between
physical attraction & sexual attraction?
• Can we develop a long term relationship with
someone we don’t find physically attractive?
• Do Americans emphasize physical beauty and
appearance too much?
• How can we overcome this?

7. Do we telegraph our attraction to others?
• How?
Can we discern physical attraction from
sexual attraction?
• How?

8. How do you feel when you are
complimented?
What is the best way to accept
a compliment?

9. Maintaining Relationships
Self-disclosure: voluntarily
providing info to others they would not
learn unless we told them.

10. Maintaining Relationships
Self-disclosure: voluntarily
providing info to others they would not
learn unless we told them.
Why do we do it?

11. Self-Disclosure is...
• A building block of intimacy
• Greater intimacy generally
leads to enhanced relationship

12. Properties of Self-Disclosure
• Reciprocity
• Appropriateness
• Risk

13. Self-Disclosure: Exercise
• Take out a piece of paper and
write down three sentences
about yourself...
• TWO THRUTHS & ONE LIE