• What are some of the benefits of disclosing personal information to others? What are some of the risks?
  • Give a brief personal example and label it low, medium, or high-risk, as defined in our book.
• Why do we choose to lie instead of self-disclosing? Do you believe there are times when lies are justified? Support your opinion.
• How would you set up a "proper" environment for facilitating self-disclosure?

Also address what you discovered about your emotional responses and self-disclosure while tracking them and sharing them with another person for your moderate-risk self-disclosure homework.

• Was it easy or challenging to track your own emotional states and did you discover a pattern that you were not conscious of before this exercise?
• How was it to share these with another person? Was their response affirming, neutral, or negative? Why?