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Conflict

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Disagreement between two interdependent people who perceive that they have incompatible goals

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Spillover effect

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Children that witness parents frequent aggressive conflict have trouble with their own relationships

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Socializing effect

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Children adopt their own parents conflict style

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3 Direct Conflict Styles

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Competitive fighting, compromising, collaborating

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3 Indirect Conflict Styles

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Indirect fighting, avoiding, yielding

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Competitive fighting

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Uncooperative, dominating, controlling

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Collaborating

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Cooperative, solution oriented, negotiating

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Compromising

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Moderately cooperative, appeal to fairness, trade offs

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Indirect fighting

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Uncooperative, passive aggressive,

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Avoiding

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Non confrontation, inaction, refusal to confront

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Yielding

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obliging, accommodating

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5 Patterns of Conflict in relationships

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Negative reciprocity, common couple violence, demand-withdrawal pattern, 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, accommodation

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Negative Reciprocity

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Complaints, criticisms, and hostile Nonverbal behaviors tend to be reciprocated during conflict

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Gunnysacking

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Storing up old grievances and dumping them on your partner during a fight

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Kitchen sinking

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Rehashing old arguments during a new argument

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Common couple violence

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Throwing objects, shoving, pushing, slapping, hitting, use of weapons

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Repeated couple violence

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Happens every two months

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Isolated couple violence

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More common, occurred less than once a year

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Demand-Withdrawal

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One person wants conflict or makes demands, the other tries to avoid

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4 horsemen of the apocalypse

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Complaining/criticizing, contempt/disgust, defensiveness, stonewalling

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Complaint/Criticizing

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Most common; complaining about performance, characteristics and partners complaints

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Contempt/Disgust

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Insults, mockery, sarcasm, put downs

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Defensiveness

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Reactive response to personal attacks, denial of responsibility, whining

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Stonewalling

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Withdrawal from further interaction

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Accommodation
Not retaliating when your partner uses destructive communication styles, leaves door open for cooperative communication
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Why do these patterns of conflict exist? (3 reasons)
Emotional flooding, attributions, communication skill deficits
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Emotional Flooding
Negative emotions are so intense that fight or flight response automatically kicks in
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Attributions
A perceptual process of assigning reasons or causes to another’s behavior
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3 types of behavioral attributions
Personal vs. situations causes , stable vs, unstable behavior , global vs. specific causes
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Personal vs. situations causes
Is that behavior part of the person’s personality?
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Stable vs unstable behavior
Is the behavior normal or out of the ordinary?
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Global vs. specific causes
Does the behavior apply to many or few situations?
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Communication Skill Deficits
A lack of personal communication skills prevents constructive conflict communication
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Argumentative ness
Focus on logic and reasoning and conflict is confronted directly
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Verbal Aggresiveness
Attacks person with the intention of hurting them
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Effective listening
Letting the other person speak, don’t jump to conclusions
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4 reasons why people breakup
Withdrawal, lack of openness, negative communication, abusive communication
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Duck’s 5 Phase Model for Breaking Up
1. Intrapsychic 2. Dyadic 3. Social 4. Grave Dressing 5. Resurrection
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1. Intrapsychic
Partners considers benefits and costs of staying versus leaving
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2. Dyadic
Partners discuss problems but display signs of uncertainty
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3. Social
Partners discuss issues with social networks, look for alternative and support
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Grave Dressing
Occurs after the breakup and involves putting closure on the relationship
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Resurrection
Partners recreate a new image of themselves, moving on without their ex
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Knapp’s 5 Stages of Coming Apart
1. Differentiating 2. Circumscribing 3. Stagnating 4. Avoiding 5. Terminating
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1. Differentiating
Occurs when the pair displays behaviors characteristic of individuals rather than a couple
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2. Circumscribing
Occurs when communication becomes more superficial and restricted
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3. Stagnating
Exists when the couple rarely discuss problems and communication becomes unproductive
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4. Avoiding
Involves creating psychological distance between the pair
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5. Terminating
When individuals move on with their separate lives
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Catastrophe Theory
Some relationships end suddenly, do not gradually unwind through stages
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7 Direct Breakup Strategies
Direct dump, dating others, justification, relationship talk trick, threats/bullying, positive tone, de-escalation.
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Direct Dump
Most common, open and honest approach, high level of acceptance
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Dating others
Usually recommended by disengaged, messages are less clear
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Justification
Use of explanations for dissatisfaction
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Relationship talk trick
Discuss problem in order to conclude relationship should end
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Threats/Bullying
Sometimes used when partner refuses to leave or breakup
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Positive tone
Intended to lessen hurt feelings and feel better about breaking up
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De-escalation
Initially avoids complete break up, temporary separation to work out issues
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2 Bilateral Direct Strategies
Blame game, negotiated farewell
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Blame Game
Bilateral strategy where both partners are unhappy and blame one another
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Negotiated Farewell
Common for long term couples, uses communication and negotiation, one of least distressing ways to end a relationship
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6 indirect Breakup strategies
Avoidance, relational ruses, withdrawal of support/affection, pseudo de-escalation,cost escalation, fading away
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Avoidance
Most common, decrease in frequency of contact.
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Relational ruses
Manipulation using friends or faking interest in another to get the partner to breakup first
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Withdrawal of support/affection
Most common for relationship less than 2 years old. Partners are unavailable to provide support
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Pseudo De-escalation
Partners claims space is needed, but really wants to breakup. An attempt to let the other person down easy
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Cost Escalation
Attempted to make relationship unattractive to partner
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Fading away
Gradual drifting apart when both partners recognize relationship no longer working
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Jealousy
Can result from a relational transgression or can be a transgression in itself
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6 Types of Jealousy
Romantic, Sexual, Friend, Activity, Power, intimacy
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Romantic jealousy
Fear that a rival will interfere w it’s the relationship
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Sexual jealousy
Fear that partner might have sex with someone else
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Friend jealousy
Feeling threatened by partners relationships with friends
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Activity jealousy
Other activities are interfering with the relationship
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Power jealousy
Fear that one is losing influence over their partner
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Intimacy Jealousy
Fear that your person is disclosing to someone else
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Primary Appraisals
General evaluations about the relationship
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Secondary Appraisals
Specific evaluations of situations (causes, outcomes)
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Jealousy can lead to fear, anger, guilt but also positive emotions like
Increased passion, love, appreciation
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Jealous women experience more
Sadness, hurt, anxiety and blame themselves
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Women use more integrative
Communication expressing emotion, showcasing their beauty and making their partner jealous
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Jealous men are more likely to
Deny jealous feelings and focus on boosting self esteem
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When jealous, Men use more strategies like
Gift giving, restricting access to potential rivals and showing off
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Deception
All communication or omissions meant to intentionally distort or dismiss the truth
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5 types of deception
Lies/falsification, exaggerating,equivocation, omission, understatement
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Lies/falsification
The intentional presentation of untrue information as though it were true
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Exaggeration
Overstating or amplifying something that is true in principle
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Equivocation
Providing vague, ambiguous answers to a question, evading the question or even changing the topic
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Omission
Hiding or withholding info that, if it were revealed, would change the nature
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Understatement
Downplaying or minimizing aspects of the truth
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Leakage Hypothesis/Leakage Cues
Deception is an emotionally char aged activity that is accompanied by physiological cues (increased sweating, muscular activity, pupil dilatio, vocal tension)
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Relational Closeness a Disadvantage for 2 reasons
Truth bias, behavioral control
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Truth bias
We expect those we are involved with to be honest and enter conversations without suspicion and don’t look for deceptive behavior
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Behavioral Control
Deceivers attempt to control their behavior in order to appear friendly and honest.
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Detecting deception of close partners is easier for 2 reasons:
Behavioral familiarity, informational familiarity

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