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Video Links

• Let’s Reciprocate 
  Read the section in your textbook about self-disclosure. Then, as you watch this clip from the television show Cheers, consider how the exchange of personal information between Sam and Carla works in their friendship. While this is an exaggerated case of reciprocity, how and what kinds of personal information do you share with someone you have just met? With someone on a first date? With someone you have known for a year or more?
   
• Positive and Negative Altercasting 
  Read the brief section in your textbook about altercasting. Then, watch this video about how we use altercasting to gain compliance (get others to do what we want them to do). Think of a time when someone used altercasting to try to urge you to do what they wanted you to do. Think of a time when you used altercasting to try to have someone do what you wanted them to do. Do you think altercasting is a useful strategy or should be avoided?
   

Web Links

• U.S. Department of Justice: Identity Theft and Identity Fraud 
  Examine the details about identify theft. According to this chapter, is identity theft possible?  In what sense?
   
• Erving Goffman 
  Website on the life and work of Erving Goffman, who is well known for his work on identities, including the notion of front stage and back stage, and how we present ourselves to others in interaction.