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The tendency to like someone more if we have been exposed to him or her repeatedly.
Mere-exposure effect
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The tendency to have contact with people equal in social status.
Homophily
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The tendency for men and women to choose as partners people who match them, that is, who are similar in attitudes, intelligence, and attractiveness.
Matching phenomenon
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A quality of relationships characterized by commitment, feelings of closeness and trust, and self-disclosure.
Intimacy
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Telling personal things about yourself.
Self-disclosure
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A story about what love should be like, including characters, a plot, and a theme.
Love story
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A state of intense longing for union with the other person and of intense physiological arousal.
Passionate love
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A feeling of deep attachment and commitment to a person with whom one has an intimate relationship.
Companionate love
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Defining some concept or term by how it is measured, for example, defining intelligence as those abilities that are measured by IQ tests.
Operational definition
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Berscheid and Walster's theory that two conditions must exist simultaneously for passionate love to occur: physiological arousal and attaching a cognitive label ("love") to the feeling.
Two-component theory of love
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When one is in a stage of physiological arousal (e.g. from exercising or being in a frightening situation), attributing these feelings to love or attraction to the person present.
Misattribution of arousal
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What the speaker means
Intent
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What someone else understands the speaker to mean.
Impact
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A communicator whose impact matches his or her intent.
Effective communicator
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Speaking for yourself, using the word "I", not mind reading.
"I" language
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Making assumptions about what your partner thinks or feels.
Mind reading
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Giving specific examples of the issue being discussed.
Documenting
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Telling your partner what you are feeling by stating your thoughts clearly, simply, and honestly.
Leveling
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Censoring or not saying things that would be deliberately hurtful to your partner or that are irrelevant.
Editing
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Saying, in your own words, what you thought your partner meant.
Paraphrasing
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Communication not through words, but through the body; for example, eye contact, tone of voice, touching.
Nonverbal communication
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Telling your partner that, given his or her point of view, you can see why he or she thinks a certain way.
Validation
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A set of rules designed to make arguments constructive rather than destructive.
Fighting fair
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