Essential topics in human relationships TO BE ELABORATED

Group behaviour

Acculturation, Berry's model of acculturation, acculturative stress

Cognitive dissonance, COMING

Compliance techniques, foot-in-the-door technique (FITD), COMING

Conformity, informative conformity, normative conformity

Cultural dimensions, individualism vs. collecticism, power distance, indulgence vs. restraint, long- vs. short-term orientation, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity vs. femininity

Emic and etic approach to research, ethnocentric, universal behaviour, deductive approach, imposed etic

Social identity theory (SIT), COMING

Social learning theory (SLT), cognitive influences, behavioural influences, environmental influences, observational learning, vicarious learning, vicarious reinforcement, reciprocal determinism, attention, retention, reproduction, motivation, self-efficacy, locus of control, learned helplessness

Interpersonal relationships

Chemical messengers

Cognitive explanations

Communication/language, 

Strategies for improving relationships