Relationships-Virtual Relationships Flashcards

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What is the reduced cues theory?

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  • Cues such as physically appearance or cue to our emotional state are lacking in virtual relationships
  • Can involve aggressive and blunt communication which leads to reluctance in self-disclosure
  • You are unlikely to want to initiate a relationship with someone who is so impersonal, or reveal feelings to them
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Hyper-personal Model Theory

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  • We can present ‘ideal’ self to partner and be hyper-honest or hyper-dishonest
  • Online relationships are more personal because virtual relationships can develop quickly as discourse happens earlier and once established they are more intense and intimate
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Absence of Gating

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  • Removes factors that usually act as barrier to interaction (e.g. level of physical attractiveness, physical anomalies, social backgrounds etc.)
  • Allows self-disclosure and intimacy to develop and eventually when gate is revealed self-disclosure means it doesn’t matter as much anymore
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What is a concern with the absence of gating?

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People are free to create online identities they could never manage FtF e.g. a man can become a woman

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