Your friend Ulric is concerned about the quality of his long-term relationship with Mara. “We used to stay up every night talking. We told each other everything. I feel like we just don’t have nights like that anymore,” Ulric says. Advise Ulric based on your knowledge of the relational patterns of self-disclosure.
What will be an ideal response?
The rate of self-disclosures in a relationship changes over time, and this trend is natural. Long-term relationships are characterized by high levels of self-disclosure in the beginning, followed by a gradual drop off. Normally satisfaction does not lower as self-disclosures stabilize. Ulric should not worry about the frequency of self-disclosure with Mara.
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a) the rule was abolished altogether, legalizing cross-ownership everywhere; b) cross-ownership was legalized except in markets having fewer than four TV stations; c) cross-ownership was legalized only in markets having 18 or more TV stations; d) the rule was left unchanged; e) the rule was made tougher, requiring existing owners of both a newspaper and a TV station in the same market to sell one or the other, even if they were previously “grandfathered.”
Public television programmers try to
a. cumulatively serve many small audiences. b. attract large audiences to compete with commercial broadcasters. c. promote government viewpoints to secure future funding. d. get the highest possible Nielsen ratings.