Affiliation And Attraction Flashcards
What is affiliation?
Forming a close bond with other people.
What is the privacy regulation theory?
Including dialectic principe and optimisation
The ideal level of privacy fluctuates over time. Influenced by dialectic principle which is can vary from being open and closed to people in space of few hours. And optimisation principle-align actual level with desired level.
What is the social affiliation model?
Rosenblood
Operate according to homeostasis principle. Control level of contact to keep it stable and close to desired level
Rosenblood-pagers to student
What are the individual differences in affiliation?
Can be due to CNS. Johnson did brain imaging studies and found introverts are higher in arousability and so avoid social interaction so arousal don’t get to uncomfortable level. Extroverts have lower so seek out interaction to increase.
Differences due to culture
What’s social anxiety?
And the two factor theory of emotion? (Schacter)
Negative emotion due to concern of interpersonal evaluation.
Two theory of emotion is getting emotional arousal from experience and looking for cues. Attribute to others behaviour.
Olsons study
Participants read speech whilst listening to noise. Some told noise would make them nervous-did better in speech as mis attributed the nerves.
What is loneliness and Williams study?
Loneliness is absence of contact.
Williams-lacked intimacy. Not quality but quantity.
What do berschied and Reis say about lonely people?
They are more likely to have certain personality traits. Spend less time with women (social circumstances). Certain social-cognitive tendencies
What is ostracism
Being excluded/ignored. Threatens belonging, control, self esteem and meaningful existence.
What is Williams study?
Participants take part in discussion and ignored-bad mood. Same areas of brain activate when being physically hurt.
Physical appearance influencing attraction
Variations in cultures. Men prefer waist to hip ratio. Facial symmetry. Average faces. Women preferred with immature faces. Men with mature faces .
What are the consequences or physical attraction
Dion study
People assume if attractive then have positive characteristics.
Dion-college students look at pictures of men and women who are attractive/unattractive and rate personality. Attractive-more desirable characteristics
Self fulfilling prophecy
Similarities of self
Study by Newcombe
Prefer people who are similar to us.
Newcomb-uni students.
Reciprocal relationship-similarity and attraction increase with each other.
Matching hypothesis-reduces rejection as have similar opinions on self.
What’s the parental investment theory?
Reproduction has long lasting consequences for women so need the right mate. So reserved about communication attraction.
Reciprocity principle
Like those who like us
