Self-disclosure and liking: a meta-analytic review.

@article{Collins1994SelfdisclosureAL,
  title={Self-disclosure and liking: a meta-analytic review.},
  author={Nancy L. Collins and Lynn Carol Miller},
  journal={Psychological bulletin},
  year={1994},
  volume={116 3},
  pages={
          457-75
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:13919881}
}
Results suggest that various disclosure-liking effects can be integrated and viewed as operating together within a dynamic interpersonal system.

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