Social_Penetration_Theory_And_Onions

Social Penetration Theory And Onions Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor align people to onions, for people contain a “multilayered nature of personality” that be broken down and picked apart. When unpeeling an onion, there are many layers to take off. There is also no guarantee for a perfect onion on any part. Mother Nature does not have this in writing; nor do Shaw’s Supermarkets. An onion is certainly not all positive aspects either. Onions, to note, are infamous for making people cry. These tears are a result of the peeling and processing (chopping and cooking) of our onions. This peeling and processing extends to contributing of peeling and processing of others’ onions is the main plotting of Altman and Taylor’s Social Penetration Theory. The theory is applied to the [potential] development of two people getting to know each other. Social Penetration Theory itself is an unfolding theory that predicts the unfolding of individuals. With linking itself to reward/cost, the theory idealizes that two people can develop a relationship in a “gradual and orderly fashion from superficial to intimate levels of exchange as a function of both immediate and people, onion, myself, theory, able, two, social, others, onions, layers, friends, penetration, each, about, through, talk, steps, self, relationship, processing, peeling, needs, nature, levels, itself, intimacy, both, years, unfolding, ultimate, sharing, self-disclosure, reward/cost, realize, quite