Human Communication Chapter 8 >> Part 2 Interpersonal Communication

What is everyday conversation?  Here are a variety of everyday conversation situations: (1) making small talk, (2) excuses and apologies, (3) complimenting, (4) advice. First, small talk about common, every things, chitchat. Excuses is an explanation or a reason for an action, and then Apologies is saying that you are sorry about something: an expression of regret for having done or said something wrong. Complimenting is something that completes, makes up a whole, or bring to perfection. Advice is an opinion or suggestion about what someone should do. 

Relationship Stage:
A group of students have volunteered to do a role play.
Story was about a girl accidentally hit a man on her way to somewhere (contact). They both apologies to each other and then they exchange phone number (involvement). Soon, they started a date and then they become a couple (intimacy). One day, the man was watching a pretty girl making her girlfriend to be angry and jealous (deterioration). This story have two ending: (1) the man apologies and promise wont make her jealous or angry about the same thing (repair). (2) the man just let his girlfriend think too much then they broke up (dissolution).

Relationship theories:
(1) Attraction Theory holds that people form relationships on the basis of attraction. (2) Relationship Rules Theory is that relationship, friendship and love in particular are held together by adherence to certain rules. (3) Relationship Dialectics Theory argues that people in a relationship experience dynamic tension between pairs of opposing motives or desires. (4) Social Penetration Theory is a theory not for why relationship develop but of what happens when they do develop. (5) Social Exchange Theory proposes that the relationship we choose to create and maintain are the one that maximize our rewards and minimize our costs. (6) Equity Theory, which suggests that people are more satisfied with a relationship in which there is equal give and take by both parties.

Jealous is the Dark Side of Interpersonal Relationship. There are Three type of jealous: 1. Cognitive jealousy is about suspicious thinking, worrying and exaggeration of thing that you think would occur. 2. Emotional jealousy is about seeing someone you like react to something else that is out of your control or reach. 3. Behavioral jealousy is about responses or behavioral changes that takes place with the individual as a result of the envy and jealousy.