Self Disclosure

Self-Disclosure

(A) A very important form of interpersonal communication that you can employ in is talking about yourself, or also referred as self-disclosure. Self-disclosure is the process of revealing something about yourself to another person, in most cases revealing something that you usually keep hidden like a secret. Self-disclosure might involve information about your values, desires and beliefs, your behavior, and your self-qualities or characteristics. You can also self-disclose nonverbally for example by, wearing certain clothes with certain colors, wearing t-shirts with slogan, wearing earnings, having tattoos or a wedding ring that reveal who you are, or what you believe in, like your beliefs.
Self-disclosure occurs in all forms of communicating, it can occur in small groups, in public speeches and in television talk shows. Self-disclosure varies by culture for example, in some countries like Great Britain and Japan people don’t disclose as much as in the United...