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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