Drew is dating Kelly, who is highly argumentative. Kelly wants to adapt to Drew's low argumentativeness style to increase the effectiveness of their relationship. What advice should Kelly follow?
a. use feed-forward messages to help Drew process her arguments
b. hold her tongue; Drew can't handle argumentativeness
c. reduce all nonverbal feedback except for eye contact
d. use more hedges and tag questions to ease Drew into the conversation
A
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