Chapter Six - Privacy and Disclosure Flashcards
(22 cards)
Breadth
A dimension of self-disclosure.
The number of topics which people feel free to disclose; usually when getting to know someone you cover a lot of surface topics.
Depth
A dimension of self-disclosure.
The extent to which people feel free to disclose, how deep the communication is.
Frequency
A dimension of self-disclosure.
How often people self-disclose.
Duration
A dimension of self-disclosure.
How long people self-disclose.
Veracity
A dimension of self-disclosure.
How honest or deceptive self disclosure is.
Valence
A dimension of self-disclosure.
The positive or negative charge of the self-disclosure.
What are the dimensions of self-disclosure?
Breadth & Depth
Frequency & Duration
Veracity & Valence
Hyperaccessibility
The desire to suppress a thought does the exact opposite, bringing it to the forefront of our thoughts and thus making it hyperaccessible
Personalistic Disclosure
disclosure that people think is directed at them because they are trustworthy and have a close relationship with the sender
Nondirected disclosure
disclosure that is sent to large groups of people rather than individuals, which is less personal
Privacy Ownership
According to CPM, we believe that our private information is first and foremost ours, which means we have privacy ownership. We decide who to share our information with. We get to select authorized co-owners or boundary insiders who know our private information
Communication Privacy Management (CPM)
this theory helps to explain how individuals maintain privacy boundaries. Boundary Structures are used to control risks: rooted in the assumption that people set up boundary structures as a way to control the risks inherent in disclosing private information.
Privacy Control
The need to control our own information is the “engine” of CPM. In addition to allowing co-owners our private information, we also want to control what aspects of that information (if any) they are allowed to share with others and how they frame that information.
Privacy Turbulence
New events that force renewed boundary management is called privacy turbulence
Renegotiated & Fortified
Boundary Expectations Breach by Owner
Authorized co-owner violating privacy
Confidentiality breach in medical settings.
What are the risks associated with self-disclosure?
E.R.L.L.
Fear of exposure or rejection; Fear of retaliation or angry attacks; Fear of loss of control; Fear of losing individuality.
Intensification Effect
Says that personal self-disclosure produces more intense feelings of closeness and liking in computer-mediated contexts.
Hyperpersonal Model
Says that people develop stronger impressions of one another in mediated contexts because they over-rely on limited, mostly verbal, information that they exchange.
Disclosure-Liking Hypothesis
Predicts that when a sender discloses to a receiver, the receiver will like the sender more; predicts that people will disclose more to receivers they like, people are more likely to disclose to relational partners.
What are positive consequences of secret keeping?
- Development of one’s identity (most beneficial in middle adolescence including ages 14-18)
- Increases cohesion (closeness) among holders of the secret
What are negative consequences of secret keeping?
- Negatively impacts quality of interactions with person whom secret is being kept from.
- Encourages concealment of relational problems, leading to deception
- Can lead to depression, delinquency, aggression, low self-esteem
- Development of a split loyalty pattern
What are the positive consequences of revealing a secret?
- Reduces psychological or physical problems
- Helps deter hyperaccessibility
- Leads to resolution of secrets
What are negative consequences of revealing a secret?
- Possibility that recipient of information will react with disapproval
- Erodes personal boundaries being tightly held by secret keeper
- Revealing secret to someone outside group = betrayal
