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Model10: Interactions in Intimate Relationships

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The third model of this section, Model10 expands on the three content-free, process-connected styles [creative–conductive (CC), reactive–repetitive (RR), and abusive–apathetic (AA)] from Chap. 11 with the addition of content from Model7 (being present, doing performance, having/production), producing an arithmetical classification of interactions describing and linking the three previous sets of styles to more differentiated types of interactions: (1) multiplicative (××), (2) additive (++), (3) static positive (+0), (4) static negative (−0), (5) subtractive (−−), and (6) divisive (//).

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    This section was written with the collaboration of Filippo Notarnicola, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone” (Bari, Italy); e-mail: f.notarnicola@ba.iac.cnr.it.

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L’Abate, L., Cusinato, M., Maino, E., Colesso, W., Scilletta, C. (2010). Model10: Interactions in Intimate Relationships. In: Relational Competence Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5665-1_12

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