The Hyperpersonal Model explains how sender control, receiver idealization, channel affordances, and reinforcing feedback can amplify impressions in mediated relationships. These interacting processes can highlight genuine but selective behavior, without guaranteeing intimacy, proving deception, or establishing that a more intense relationship is healthier or more accurate.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.