Abstract
The communication of emotion via spontaneous nonverbal expression was studied as it functions in the social penetration process. Two measures of nonverbal sensitivity to facial cues, sensitivity to general or unknown others and sensitivity to a dating partner, were obtained with seventeen exclusively dating, but noncohabiting couples. It was predicted from social penetration theory that both the duration of the relationship and the degree of involvement in the relationship would be reflected in the dating partner's sensitivity to one another. Neither prediction was supported.
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