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Interpersonal and Small Group Communication

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Couples’ Dialogue Orientations, Dale Hample, Ioana A. Cionea May 2016

Couples’ Dialogue Orientations, Dale Hample, Ioana A. Cionea

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Walton has distinguished among several sorts of argumentative dialogues (persuasion, negotiation, information seeking, deliberation, inquiry, and eristic). This paper continues the project of measuring individuals’ self-reported preferences for each dialogue type. In this study, long-term romantic couples were surveyed to examine if their dialogue preferences matched, and whether their preferences were, in turn, related to their relational satisfaction.

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