1. Review the types of secret tests. For each type, provide an example from your own life in which you have engaged in the secret test or observed a friend doing so. For each example, state whether you believe the secret test was helpful or harmful and why.

2. Create definition of emotional infidelity. Ask three friends to come up with their definition of emotional infidelity.

3. Compare and contrast the four definitions of emotional infidelity.

4. After reading the section on internet infidelity and internet characteristics, find your example in the popular media that relates to one of the characteristics of the internet that seems to facilitate infidelity. For example, you might choose the characteristic "speed." Find an article in the popular media in which speed played a role in an individual's ability to "cheat" in the virtual environment.

5. Create examples of each type of hurtful message from your own life that you have experienced or witnessed. What was the reaction? Label the reaction according to Vangelisti and Crumley's Reaction Types.

6. Relational aggression results in hurt and lowered self-esteem. Design a plan to help a child who may experience or enact relational aggression.

7. Verbal aggression is a negative form of communication in which the self-concept of another is attacked. Describe a situation in which you engaged in verbal aggression.

8. How will you avoid verbal aggression in future interactions?

9. If you are the target of verbal aggression, how will you approach the perpetrator of this behavior?

10. If you discover that bullying has occurred at school or in the workplace, what will you do to correct the situation?