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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL You Have Viewed Too Many Free Essays, Term Papers, and Book Reports. Development of Intimate Relationships Development of Intimate Relationships Section One : Relationship Formation The formation of relationships has always been of interest to researchers of social psychology, but it was not until the 1970s that the bulk of theory began to emerge. It was during this time that a wide range of paradigms were developed, but "the domain of relationship development is awesomely vast and incompletely charted" (Duck & Gilmour, 1981a, p vii). Two theories that emerged in the 70s were social penetration theory (Altman & Taylor, 1973) and another based around attraction by Levinger and Snoek (1972). Both stem from the social psychological paradigm and offer two useful and complementary models of relationship development. A. Social Penetration Theory Social Penetration theory was devised by Altman and Taylor in 1973 in an attempt to explain the development of interpersonal relationships from strangers to good friends. They propose that relationship formation will proceed gradually and in an orderly fashion, through reciprocal exchange from non-intimate, relatively unemotional aspects of the selves to intimate, private and vulnerable central core aspects of the selves (Duck & Gilmour, 1981a, p 15). The events that occur in the formation of any relationship are, according to Altman and Taylor (1973), encompassed by four "social penetration processes": verbal exchange, nonverbal use of the body, use of physical environment, relationship, relationships, social, people, person, cmc, theory, presence, one, medium, personality, each, level, altman, 1973, taylor, formation, development, been, another, two, self, personal, exchange, attraction, influence, different, computer, cited, useful, thought, physical, penetration, levels, interaction, however, communication, 1984, research, process, perceptions, layers, factors, duck, definition, characteristics, both, about, 197 Word Count: 4407 Acceptance_Essays American_History Anatomy_&_Physiology Animal_Science_&_Zoology Anthropology Architecture Art Astronomy Aviation Biographies Book_Reports Business Computers Creative_Writing Current_Events Economics Education Engineering English Environmental_Science Ethics European_History Film_&_TV Foreign_Languages Geography Government_&_Politics Health_&_Beauty History_Other Human_Sexuality Legal_Issues Marketing Mathematics Medicine Miscellaneous Music Mythology Philosophy Physics Poetry Political_Science Psychology Religion Science Shakespeare Social_Issues Sociology Speech Sports_&_Recreation Supernatural Technology Theater Theses_&_Dissertations

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