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Guerrero, Close Encounters
Discussion Questions
Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Relational Communication
1. In your text, D. P. McAdams is quoted as saying, “Through personal relationships, we
may find our most profound experiences of security and anxiety, power and impotence,
unity and separateness”. How does popular culture (music or television) help you to
make sense of your close relationships, casual relationships, or role relationships?
2. In this chapter, we defined interpersonal communication as the exchange of
nonverbal and verbal messages between two people, regardless of their relationship.
What is another perspective or alternative way to define interpersonal communication?
3. As illustrated by the comparison of John Gottman and John Gray, there is a lot of
popular press material on relationships that does not necessarily correspond with what
