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The view that the development of a relationship reflects the unfolding of social exchanges-- that is, the rewards and costs of maintaining the relationship as opposed to ending it |
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The view that romantic relationships encompass five stages or phases: attraction, building, continuation, deterioration, and ending |
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A superficial kind of conversation that allows exhange of information but stresses breadth of topic coverage, rather than indepth discussion |
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| The revelation of personal, perhaps intimate, information |
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| A probing phase of building a relationship in which people seek common ground and check out feelings of attraction |
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| A phase in building a relationship during which member of a couple come to regard themselves as "we," no longer as two "I's" who happen to be in the same place at the same time |
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| Feelings of closeness and connectedness that are marked by sharing of innermost thoughts and feelings |
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The view that the need for one's partner promotes commitment, and commitment promotes acts that enhance the relationship; these acts build trust, increasing one's partner's commitment to the relationship |
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| Following or observing a person persistently, especially because of obsession with the person; can occur online as well as in person, as when a person breaks into someone else's e-mail |
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