Across
- 4. A general idea of the profits you feel you should get from a relationship.
- 6. In the social penetration theory of interpersonal relationships, the number of topics about which individuals in a relationship communicate.
- 10. In social penetration theory of interpersonal relationships, the degree to which the inner personality of an individual is penetrated in interpersonal interaction.
- 11. A reaction to relationship threats.
- 15. A theory that describes relationships in terms of the tension between a series of competing opposite desires or motivations, such as the desire to belong to someone, desires for novelty versus predictability, and desires for closedness versus openness.
- 16. The quality of communication referring to the dependency of each element on each other element in the process.
- 19. The ideas of social exchange but goes a step further and claims that you develop and maintain relationships in which the ratio of your rewards relative to your costs is approximately equal to your partner's.
- 20. The closest interpersonal relationship.
Down
- 1. As a principle of perception, the tendency to perceive people or events that are physically close as belonging together or representing some unit.
- 2. The stage of a relationship during which the connecting bonds between the partners weaken and the partners begin drifting apart.
- 3. A relationship theory that holds that people form relationships with those they consider attractive.
- 5. Efforts to reverse the process of relationship deterioration.
- 7. Relationships between a real person and an imagined or fictional character.
- 8. A principle of attraction stating that we are attracted by qualities that we do not possess or that we wish to possess and to people who are opposite or different from ourselves.
- 9. A theory claiming that we come to like those whom we think like us.
- 12. The stage in an interpersonal relationship that normally follows contact.
- 13. In attraction theory, rewards or favors that tend to promote interpersonal relationships.
- 14. An emotional feeling that we experience when we desire what someone else has.
- 17. The breaking of the binds holding an interpersonal relationship together.
- 18. The first stage of an interpersonal relationship, in which perceptual and interactional contact in occurs.
