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Social penetration theory asserts a law of __________ that is defined as a paced and orderly process in which openness in one person leads to openness in the other.

The ideal audience includes a _____ public that identifies the humane values in a story. 

Social information processing theory claims that messages spoken in person take about ____ times longer to say online. 

Relational dialectics theory provides scientific laws that predict interpersonal attraction. 

A warm friendship will deteriorate if friends begin to close off areas of their lives that had previously been opened.

Which of the following groups are NOT considered important agenda-setters?

The need for orientation arises from:

According to uses and gratifications, instead of asking, “What do media do to people?” the question to ask is:

Parasocial relationships involve a sense of ________ between TV viewers and media personalities.

In the digital era, agenda-setting theory does not measure up to its claims because: