What is negative identity management? Provide an example

What will be an ideal response?

Negative identity management is communicating in ways that arouse negative emotions in order to make the other person upset enough to agree to break off the relationship. For example, Ellen didn't want to date Craig any more, but she didn't want to tell him. So instead, used negative identity management by doing things she knew Craig found distasteful, like smoking and blowing the smoke in his face and making him wait for half an hour before showing up to meet him, in order to make the Craig upset enough to break off the relationship.

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State one verbal and one nonverbal delivery goal that you have for your next presentation. Discuss

what you will do to achieve it. What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following is NOT an example of overattribution?

A. a receiver comparing the sender to someone else he or she knows B. a receiver believing a sender has more similarities than differences C. a receiver forgetting that the relationship is based on words D. a receiver ignoring perceptions that are incomplete or missing altogether

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