Category: Social Concepts

Have you ever added a new person on Facebook and felt proud? Like you’re achieving something? Like you’re actually a social person with a large social network? Here’s a truth: your Facebook friend count is meaningless. Facebook friends don’t count as real friends. And you want real friend. Before Facebook existed, people had friends. Real friends. And that count is what you should be focused on….

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  Stranger Acquaintance Friend Good friend Let’s talk about interactions with these people.   Stranger A stranger is a person you don’t know or have never met before. You may know of this person because you two have mutual friends or classes or work at the same place, but you two are still strangers. Interactions: you may or may not say “hi” when you pass…

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Understanding Rapport

Posted by January 30, 2016

Rapport is one of the most important concepts you will learn in understanding social relationships. It is creating liking that will help you in many ways with people, anywhere from getting better service from your waiter to solidifying a relationship with a romantic partner. Definition of Rapport Rapport is defined as “close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s…

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You’ve heard this “fact”: 93% of all communication is nonverbal. Is it true or not? The Study by Professor Albert Mehrabian studied the importance of three aspects of communication: words themselves, tone of voice, and body language. He conducted the research by studying how likable a person was. What Mehrabian concluded was that 7% of our liking was attributable to words themselves, 38% was attributable tone…

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