Tag Archives: Self-disclosure

Miller, L. C., Berg, J. H., & Archer, R. L. (1983). Openers: Individuals who elicit intimate self-disclosure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(6), 1234-1244.

Presents an “Opener Scale” that measures the tendency to elicit intimate disclosure from others. Data from 740 undergraduates provided evidence for the scale’s validity and reliability. In a face-to-face dyadic interaction between strangers in a laboratory study, 55 undergraduate women who scored either high or low on the Opener Scale were paired with other women …

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Gray, A. W., Parkinson, B., &Dunbar, R. I. (2015). Laughter’s influence on the intimacy of self-disclosure. Human Nature, 26(1), 28-43.

If laughter functions to build relationships between individuals, as current theory suggests, laughter should be linked to interpersonal behaviors that have been shown to be critical to relationship development. Given the importance of disclosing behaviors in facilitating the development of intense social bonds, it is possible that the act of laughing may temporarily influence the …

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