Chapter 1: Why Love Matters Flashcards
Einstein’s demands on his first wife
- do not expect intimacy
- stop talking to me if I request it.
- Leave me alone to study without protest if I request it.
What is the strongest contributor in one’s life.
your Intimate relationship.
_____ levels of happiness are especially likely to be found among people in happy relationships.
Higher
TRUE OR FALSE: People in intimate relationships are generally more sad than people who are not in intimate relationships.
False. people in intimate relationships are generally HAPPIER.
Greater susceptibility to the common cold, poorer wound healing, higher mortality rates, increased hypertension, and increased risk of being diagnosed with and dying from cancer all associate with what?
Discordant couples
What activity makes people the happiest?
Sex
Are people having more or less sex than before?
People are having LESS sex than before.
what is the happiness-maximizing number of sexual partners calculated?
1
Those who remain _____ accumulate more wealth compared to ______.
married, divorced
which gender’s household income drops 58% following divorce?
Women
what is selective well-being?
A person’s experience of how happy (s)he is generally in life.
what is Relationship status?
Independent of relationship quality. The type of relationship a person is currently experiencing. (eg. dating, married, divorces, widowed.)
what is relationship quality?
how good or bad an individual judges his or her relationship to be.
what is Relationships transition?
A change of one relationship status to another. (Ex. married couple separates or divorce).
What is the selection Effects?
A bias that can arise in research because preexisting characteristics of people lead them to choose, or “select themselves” into certain experiences.
What is protection Effects?
An association between two phenomena whereby one causes improvement or benefits in the other.
Social Control Theory
The view that social relationships regulate how individuals behave by encouraging people to conform to social norms.
What are pairbonds?
A connection between two people who have some degree of emotional/ practical investment in each other. Often with the purpose of reproducing.
what are pair-bonds also known as?
Dyadic bonds
Natural selection
The process by which organism that are best adapted to their environment survive and produce more offsprings.
What happens to kids exposed to frequent and intense parental conflict?
They develop poorer relationships with parents and peers, which can lead to compulsive internet use.
Reduced quality of sleep, , speeding up the onset of puberty, and more physical health problems are biological processes in children that are affected by what?
High parental conflict.
Classmates of children exposed to ______ _______ have lower reading and math scores, reducing future earnings by up to 4% 20 years later.
Domestic violence
Parental relationship satisfaction is related to 3 things.
- more emotional security
- fewer emotional problems
- Fewer behavioural problems.
What is the biggest stakeholder in a relationship?
Children.
what is an Intimate Relationship?
A close relationship that includes some kind of sexual passion that could be expressed and shared.
What is a close relationship?
A personal relationship in which the partners have strong and frequent influence on each other across a variety of activities.
Personal Relationship
An interdependent relationship in which the partners consider each other special and unique.
What is an Interdependent relationship?
A relationship in which the behaviour of each participant affect the other
What is the defining characteristic of any social relationship.
Interdependence.
