Interpersonal Communication- A Mindful Approach to Relationships, 2020a

Third-Culture
Third-Party Testing
Timbre
Time
Togetherness
Tolerance for Disagreement
Traditionals
Transactional Model
Triangle Test
Types of Workplace Bullying
Uncertainty Avoidance
Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Undifferentiated
Undifferentiated space
Values
Verbal Aggression
Verbal Bullying
Verbal Surrogates
When a couple negotiates their cultural background with the cultural
background of their partner essentially creating a third-culture or
hybrid culture between the two.
Involving a third party such as friend or family to gain insight into
the relationship.
(pronounced “TAM-ber”) The overall quality and tone, which is often
called the “color” of your voice; the primary vocal quality that makes
your voice either pleasant or disturbing to listen to.
When romantic workplace relationships occur because people put
in a great deal of time at work, so they are around and interact with
potential romantic partners a great deal of the average workday.
Aspect of Murray Bowen’s family system theory that emphasizes the
complementary, universal, biological life force that propels organisms
toward relationship, attachment, and connectedness.
The degree to which an individual can openly discuss differing
opinions without feeling personally attacked or confronted.
Marital definition where couples are highly interdependent,
conventional ideology, and high levels of conflict engagement
Communication model that demonstrate that individuals are often
acting as both the sender and receiver simultaneously.
Manipulating a third party to gain information about the nature of
the relationship.
Workplace bullying involves isolation and exclusion, intimidation
and threats, verbal threats, damaging professional identity, limiting
career opportunities, obstructing work or making work-life difficult,
and denial of due process and natural justice.
The extent to which cultures as a whole are fearful of ambiguous and
unknown situations.
The tendency of human beings to eliminate unknown elements of
individuals whom they have just met. Individuals wish to predict
what another person thinks and how another person behaves.
Strategies for reducing uncertainty include passive, active, and
interactive.
A person who does not possess either masculine or feminine
characteristics.
The degree to which spouses do not see her/his/their ownership of
personal belongings as much as they do ownership as a couple.
Important and lasting principles or standards held by a culture about
desirable and appropriate courses of action or outcomes.
The tendency to attack the self-concept of individuals instead of, or in
addition to, their positions on topics of communication.
Includes threats, degrading comments, teasing, name-calling,
putdown or sarcastic comments
The sounds humans make as they attempt to fill dead air while they
are thinking of what to say next (e.g., uhh, umm).
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