Sharing Personal Information

1. Sharing Personal Information Self-Disclosure Privacy Feelings

2. Self-Disclosure • Defined- divulging biographical data, personal ideas, and feelings.

3. Balance • Important to have correct balance in relationship of self-disclosure and privacy. • What is the correct balance?

4. Social Penetration Theory • “Onion Peel” Theory

5. Johari Window

6. Gender and Cultural Differences • Culture- Appropriateness of Self-Disclosure varies from culture to culture, making intercultural communication even more challenging. • Gender- Women disclose more and are disclosed to more than men. Men engage in report-talk and women engage in rapport-talk.

7. Guidelines for Appropriate Self-Disclosure • Pages 235-236 • 1. Self-Disclose the kind of information you want others to disclose to you.

8. Guidelines • 2. Self-Disclose more intimate information only when you believe the disclosure represents acceptable risk.

9. Guidelines • 3. Continue intimate self-disclosure only if it is reciprocated.

10. Guidelines • 4. Move Self-Disclosure to deeper levels gradually.

11. Final Guideline • 5. Reserve the most personal and sensitive self-disclosure for ongoing, intimate relationships.

12. Sharing Feelings • Describing feelings- naming emotions you are feeling without judging them. • Displaying Feelings- expressing feelings through facial reactions, body responses, or paralinguistic reactions. • Masking Feelings- concealing verbal or nonverbal cues that would enable others to understand the emotions that a person is actually feeling.

13. Managing Privacy • Change the subject • Tell a “white lie”

14. Next Class • Bring your popcorn and candy! • Movie Time with a paper assignment to take home after.