Chapter Six - Privacy and Disclosure

Question 1

Breadth

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Depth

Answer 2

A dimension of self-disclosure.

The extent to which people feel free to disclose, how deep the communication is.

Question 3

Frequency

Answer 3

A dimension of self-disclosure.

How often people self-disclose.

Question 4

Duration

Answer 4

A dimension of self-disclosure.

How long people self-disclose.

Question 5

Veracity

Answer 5

A dimension of self-disclosure.

How honest or deceptive self disclosure is.

Question 6

Valence

Answer 6

A dimension of self-disclosure.

The positive or negative charge of the self-disclosure.

Question 7

What are the dimensions of self-disclosure?

Answer 7

Breadth & Depth
Frequency & Duration
Veracity & Valence

Question 8

Hyperaccessibility

Answer 8

The desire to suppress a thought does the exact opposite, bringing it to the forefront of our thoughts and thus making it hyperaccessible

Question 9

Personalistic Disclosure

Answer 9

disclosure that people think is directed at them because they are trustworthy and have a close relationship with the sender

Question 10

Nondirected disclosure

Answer 10

disclosure that is sent to large groups of people rather than individuals, which is less personal

Question 11

Privacy Ownership

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Communication Privacy Management (CPM)

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Privacy Control

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

Privacy Turbulence

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

What are the risks associated with self-disclosure?

E.R.L.L.

Answer 15

Fear of exposure or rejection; Fear of retaliation or angry attacks; Fear of loss of control; Fear of losing individuality.

Question 16

Intensification Effect

Answer 16

Says that personal self-disclosure produces more intense feelings of closeness and liking in computer-mediated contexts.

Question 17

Hyperpersonal Model

Answer 17

Says that people develop stronger impressions of one another in mediated contexts because they over-rely on limited, mostly verbal, information that they exchange.

Question 18

Disclosure-Liking Hypothesis

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

What are positive consequences of secret keeping?

Answer 19

• Development of one’s identity (most beneficial in middle adolescence including ages 14-18)
• Increases cohesion (closeness) among holders of the secret

Question 20

What are negative consequences of secret keeping?

Answer 20

• 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

Question 21

What are the positive consequences of revealing a secret?

Answer 21

• Reduces psychological or physical problems
• Helps deter hyperaccessibility
• Leads to resolution of secrets

Question 22

What are negative consequences of revealing a secret?

Answer 22

• 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