What is meant by relationship-specific social decentering? Provide an example.
What will be an ideal response?
- Social decentering helps us to understand our partner better, and that understanding allows us to choose effective strategies for accomplishing our communication goals, adapting to our partner's current behavior, and anticipating his or her responses. It is based on a specific relationship.
- Studies have shown that the more intimate the relationship, the higher the respondents' relationship-specific social decentering scores were, and the higher the relational satisfaction reported by both partners was.
- Relationship partners have expectations that their partner understands them and treats them in a manner that reflects that understanding. Repeated failure to display relationship-specific social decentering behavior is likely to contribute to relational dissatisfaction.
* For example, after getting angry with your partner for not doing the dishes as agreed, you are likely to get even more upset if you find that your partner didn't realize she or he had made you angry.
- Student examples will vary.
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