Interpersonal Communication

Analyzing Conversation Partners

 

Listed below are 14 unsatisfying Conversation Partners. 

 

1.                  As a group, identify a concrete example from your own experience that involved each of these conversation partners and why that conversation was frustrating.  

2.                  Come up with a list of ways that you can avoid becoming each of these conversation partners.

 

Group 1-2 (MICD)

l      Moralist: evaluates and judges everyone and everything.

l      Inactive Responder: gives no reaction, regardless of what you say.

l      Complainer: rarely tires of listing each complaint.

l      Detour Taker: always going off on tangents.

l       

Group 3-4 (SIDE)

l      Story Teller: substitutes them for two way conversation.

l      Interrogator: asks questions about everything.

l      Doomsayer: everything is a problem.

l      Egotist: self-related topics.

l       

Group 5-6 (SAT AP)

l      Self Discloser: more than you need to know.

l      Advisor: too much advice.

l      Thought Completer: knows what you’re going to say.

l      Arguer: takes issue.

l      Psychiatrist: analyzes everything.