Abstract
A general view of interpersonal distancing, integrating verbal and nonverbal components of interaction could follow any of four different rules of dyadic exchange of intimacy: (1) reciprocity, (2) compensation, (3) attraction mediation, and (4) attraction transformation. An experiment was conducted assessing subjects' verbal and visual distancing responses while orthogonally manipulating interviewer attractiveness, question intimacy, disclosure personalness and visual gaze. The results support the norm of reciprocity with regard to verbal disclosure. With regard to visual gaze, an interaction with attractiveness emerged, conforming to the attraction transformation hypothesis. Reciprocity occurred with a likeable interviewer while compensation occurred with an unlikeable interviewer.
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