Interpersonal Communication Processes
Self-Disclosure and Interpersonal Communication
Exercises
- Answer the questions from the beginning of the
section: Have you ever said too much on a first date? At a job
interview? To a professor? Have you ever posted something on Facebook
only to return later to remove it? If you answered yes to any of the
questions, what have you learned in this chapter that may have led you
to do something differently?
- Have you experienced negative results due to
self-disclosure (as sender or receiver)? If so, what could have been
altered in the decisions of what, where, when, or how to disclose that
may have improved the situation?
- Under what circumstances is it OK to share
information that someone has disclosed to you? Under what circumstances
is to not OK to share the information?