Social Penetration Theory And Onions

This peeling and processing extends to contributing of peeling and processing of others’ onions is the main plotting of Altman and Taylor’s Social Penetration Theory. The theory is applied to the [potential] development of two people getting to know each other. Social Penetration Theory itself is an unfolding theory that predicts the unfolding of individuals. With linking itself to reward/cost, the theory idealizes that two people can develop a relationship in a “gradual and orderly fashion from superficial to intimate levels of exchange as a function of both immediate and forecast outcomes” (Griffin, 133). The outcomes are the reward/cost predictions, both initi

Building on this, nearly a decade has past and I have hit the start of twenty-something ness. Through the years, sharing information and living as our selves with each other furthered disclosure between friends and myself as social penetration theory predicts and outlines. I’ve made many new friends and have friends in the past, and have come to realize the most ultimate form of intimacy lies not between a best friend and myself or two people in a relationship necessarily; but at the core with myself and self-actualization. Even if interaction comes after this, the self is the key to it all.

ally and consistently, which will guide the two people into a level of closeness.

For example, before I was twelve years old, I did not have any ‘real’ friends. Being quiet in school, most people did not talk to me. When I was able to mutter here and there, it was that- muttering, more or less. As the individual’s steps of self-disclosure towards intimacy are layered upon Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and divulgence into depth, I was able to handle the first two levels with out friendship. From my family and myself, I had my physiological and safety needs taken care of; but in order to progress along I had to fulfill the ‘belongingness and love needs’ as well as esteem needs. In order to do this, I had to let my onion unpeel and open that of a

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