| Types | Prototypes of strategies |
| Acceptance | Verbal apology |
| Non-verbal abandoning or changes of criticized acts | |
| Defensive responses | Denying having done the criticized act |
| Providing justification | |
| Understating the fault | |
| Offensive responses | Countercriticizing the speaker |
| Going against the speaker’s will | |
| Avoidance | Silence |
| Distorting the criticism | |
| Shifting or ending the topic |