topic one,
Analyze the attributional patterns you use to explain a mean or disappointing behavior by a 1) good friend and 2) by someone whom you do not like. Analyze how differences in your feelings about the two individuals affect your attributional tendencies. We tend to make external, unstable, and specific attributions for undesirable behaviors (which implies that factors were beyond his or her control) for friends. For people we dislike, we tend to make internal, stable, and global attributions for undesirable behaviors (which implies that he or she had control of his or her mean action and perhaps intended to act that way). Use vocabulary from your text in your response.
topic 2
Consider a recent communication exchange that you either had or witnessed. Some examples might include a customer and salesperson at the local coffee shop, a meeting with your boss, or two people competing for the same parking spot in the mall. What types of nonverbal cues were present? Apply the terms from your textbook (pgs. 143-151) about the types of nonverbal communication you observe and what you think they mean in this particular interaction. If there was verbal communication, which one was louder: the verbal or nonverbal communication? Why do you think that was? Is it easy to read and interpret nonverbal cues?
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