Across
- 3. The action of protecting, or the state of being protected.
- 5. When the listener is observing the speaker's behavior and body language.
- 6. Positive declarations intended to give confidence; a promise.
- 7. The practice of being or tendency to be positive or optimistic in attitude.
- 10. Friendship is a close association between two people marked by feelings of care, respect, admiration, concern, or even love.
- 12. The right or condition of self-government.
- 15. A relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else.
- 17. An interpersonal communication theory about close personal ties and relationships that highlights the tensions, struggles and interplay between contrary tendencies.
- 18. A group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with each other in their respective social positions, usually those of spouses, parents, children, and siblings.
- 19. The quality of being new, original, or unusual.
- 20. A style of communicating that has a specific set of goals and techniques.
Down
- 1. The degree to which a correct prediction or forecast of a system's state can be made either qualitatively or quantitatively.
- 2. A systematic research theory designed to develop an evidence-based understanding of the way people make decisions about revealing and concealing private information.
- 4. A process of communication by which one person reveals information about themself to another.
- 8. A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.
- 9. Conditions governing what they can, and can't, talk about, how they can discuss such topics, and who else should habe access to this information.
- 11. Close familiarity or friendship; closeness.
- 13. A variety of behaviors exhibited by relational partners in an effort to maintain that relationship.
- 14. A theory that proposes, as relationships develop, interpersonal communication moves from relatively shallow, non-intimate levels to deeper, more intimate ones.
- 16. A lack of restriction; accessibility.