College 4 Flashcards
managing impressions
any effort aimed at influencing the perception other people have about them someone else.
uncertainty reduction
strangers motivated to reduce uncertainty. People seek to explain other people’s behavior
Hyperpersonal communication
communicating via mediated channels gives us more control over our self-presentation.
Cue utilization
link between observable cue and observer’s judgment
cue validity
link between observable cue and occupant’s actual level of underlying construct
warranting principle
the greater the difficulty to manipulate, the higher the value of the information
warranting credibility
the degree to which an online cue is believed to be immune to manipulation
warranting value
the degree to which observers rely upon certain cues to judge user personality
warranting diagnosticity
the predictive value of the warrant
availability heuristic
humans base their judgment on the information that is available to them
correspondence bias
the tendency to assume that others’ actions and words reflect their personality or stable personal disposition rather than being affected by situational factors
self-disclosure depth
the degree to which information revealed is intimate/personal
self-disclosure breadth:
amount of personal topics covered in a conversation
self-presentation
the performance whereby people try to control the impression they give to others
given
everything explicitly communicated
