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Chapter 10
Managing Personal Information
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| DISCLOSE PRIVACY DIALECTIC | tension between sharing personal information and keeping personal information confidential; also called the openness and closedness dialectic. |
| DISCLOSURE | revealing confidential or secret information |
| SELF-DISCLOSURE | sharing your own biographical data, personal ideas, and feelings |
| PRIVACY | withholding confidential or secret information to enhance autonomy and/or minimize vulnerability |
| COMMUNICATION PRIVACY MANAGEMENT THEORY(CPM) | theory that provides a framework for understanding the decision making processes people use to manage disclosure and privacy |
| SOCIAL PENETRATION THEORY | theory holding that over time relationships move from lesser to greater intimacy based on the increasing number of topics that relational partners discuss and the degree of personal information disclosed on those topics |
| RECIPROCITY | mutual exchange of information |
| INFORMATION CO-OWNERSHIP | mutual protection of private information |
| OWNING FEELINGS OR OPINIONS | skill of making "I" statements rather than generalizations to identify yourself as the source of a particular idea or feeling |
| DISPLAYING FEELINGS | skill of accurately showing emotions through facial expressions, body language, or paralanguage |
| DESCRIBING FEELINGS | skill of explaining emotions one feels in a precise and unemotional manner |
| MANAGING PRIVACY | skill of making a conscious decision to withhold information or feelings from others |
| PERSONAL FEEDBACK | disclosing information about others to them |
| DESCRIBING BEHAVIOR | skill of accurately recounting the specific behaviors of others without drawing conclusions about those behaviors |
| CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM | skill of diplomatically describing the specific negative behaviors or actions of another and the effects those behaviors/actions have on others |
| PRAISING | skill of sincerely describing the specific positive behaviors or accomplishments of another and the positive effects those behaviors/accomplishments have on others |