L10.2 - Hyperpersonal Model Flashcards
What is SD in virtual relationships like?
Greater self-disclosure than FtF relationships
How do virtual relationships and self-disclosure develop?
Develop quickly and early
What happens after the relationship is established?
It becomes intense and intimate quickly
Why can relationships also end quickly?
Excitement and interaction isn’t matched by trust
Self-disclosure in VRs allow people to do what with their image?
People to have more time to manipulate their online image and messages that they send
What is selective self-presentation?
One portrays themselves in the most positive and idealised way
The way a person presents themselves in selective self-presentation…
May be fake
+ related to Joinson’s study
Found that more self-disclosure occurs over a computer using a chat program rather than using a video link where they could see each other
- related to gender differences
Study found females values SD, esp to do with emotion, more than males and males preferred activities-based conversation
- related to selective self-presentation
May take manipulating self too far
When meet FtF may be too different, may feel mislead, relationships ends?
