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Self-Disclosure (A) A very important form of interpersonal communication that you can employ in is talking about yourself, or also referred as self-disclosure. Self-disclosure is the process of revealing something about yourself to another person, in most cases revealing something that you usually keep hidden like a secret. Self-disclosure might involve information about your values, desires and beliefs, your behavior, and your self-qualities or characteristics. You can also self-disclose nonverbally for example by, wearing certain clothes with certain colors, wearing t-shirts with slogan, wearing earnings, having tattoos or a wedding ring that reveal who you are, or what you believe in, like your beliefs. Self-disclosure occurs in all forms of communicating, it can occur in small groups, in public speeches and in television talk shows. Self-disclosure varies by culture for example, in some countries like Great Britain and Japan people don’t disclose as much as in the United States, in some countries like China students may believe that self-disclosing, can be inappropriate at times. Some cultures view self-disclosing as a weakness or coward ness, showing signs of low self-esteem or not being sure of something. Self-disclosure is also different among genders, woman tend to self-disclose more than men do, they tend to reveal more intimate information than men, and most commonly woman tend to disclose more than men about their previous romantic relationships, their feeling about their friends and their greatest fears. Women also seem to self-disclose more as the relationship becomes more intimate, whereas men don’t change their self-disclosure levels. In self disclosure you reveal information to feel better or to let somebody know what your feeling or what you believe, self-disclosing happens everyday and everywhere and many times, we might not know that we are self-disclosing information. (B) In an incident in my life were I used self-disclosure to communicate information about myself to another person was two years ago.
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