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* Altman and Taylor compare people to onions. This isn't their attempt at
complementary on the human capacity to offend. It is their description of the
multilayered nature of personality. Peel the outer skin from an onion, and
you'll find another beneath it. Remove that layer and you'll expose a third,
and so on.
.1. The outer layer includes a mlriad of details that certainly help describe who
he is but are held in common with others at the school.
.1. The inner core is made up of his values, self-concept, unresolved conflicts.
and deepll felt emotions.
.! One becomes accessible to others as one relaxes the tightened boundaries and
makes himselflherself wlnerable.
.1. Non-verbal paths to operutess include mock roughhousing, 6ye contact, and
smiling. But the main route to deep social penetration is thLrough self-
disclosure.
* Level 1: Tastes, studies, worldview, biographical data
tr Level 2: Preferences in clothes, food, and music
* Level 3: Goals and aspirations
.1. Level -l: Religious convictions
.i. Level 5: Deeply held fears and fantasies
.i. Level 6: Concept ofSelf
If tr+'o could become friends. rvill depend on the cost-benefit anal-vsis that each
person performs as he considers thc possibilitv of a closer relationship.
Altman and 'laylor believe that principles of social exchange accurately
predict rvhen people u ill risk self-disclosurc.
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