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Defensive CommunicationNameLecturerUniversityCourseDateA defensive climate weakens group learning, team efficiency, family communication, and personal conversations. It also prevents new ideas from being spoken, heard, or considered, thus making these climates supported by groupthink, where nearly everyone buys into a common viewpoint or ideology as thought by Gibb. This sometimes can be generated by one or two individuals but usually persists when individuals co-create defensive climates or when emotions are hot.Evaluative & DescriptionIt is significance that carries judgments of right and wrong, good or bad, and nonverbal cues of evaluation, such as speech or other conduct. It is this significance that appears evaluative, which in turn increases defensiveness by expression, manner of speech, tone of voice, or verbal content (Gibb, 1961, p 68). The sender seems to be evaluating or judging the listener, which creates hostility in the receiver. If the listener thought th...