Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Negative politeness is the most direct and least polite FTA strategy.
2. The central feature of private information is possession.
3. Boundary linkages refer to turbulence.
4. The most sophisticated strategy for managing dialectical tensions is segmentation.
5. The desire to have both a traditional relationship and a unique relationship is known
as the predictability–novelty dialectic.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False

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Before the start of a new project, all 20 team members submitted different proposals. Rather than debating and dissecting each proposal one at a time, the meeting broke up into separate factions, each discussing a separate idea. Thus, the meeting was reduced to a cacophony of unrestrained and unfocused discussion. What was the problem in this meeting?

a. Excessof interaction
b. Excess of meeting structure
c. Excess of groupthink
d. Excess of stringent gatekeeping

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a. Breaking the rules b. Having the final word c. Touch d. Back-channeling

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