Chapter 11 Flashcards
Need to belong
Desire to connect with others in close relationships
What percentage of the time are uni students talking to somone in waking lives?
28%
What 3 things typically result in a deep sense of well-being?
Belonging, autonomy, and competence
Ostracism
Acts of excluding/ignoring
Bullying vs. Ostracism
Those ostracised felt worse than those bullied. Felt like not existing.
What type of behavior happens when people are socially rejected?
Self-defeating behaviors that lack self-control. Hard to regulate behaviors: Eg. binge-eating ice cream, alcohol consumption, etc.
What happens to judgement when ostracized?
Worse judgement. More likely to believe conspiracy, hard to listen to directions, etc.
in 126 school shootings, what percentage of shooters had social rejection or conflict?
88%
Cyberostracism
People feel like they’re ignored over the internet. Eg. not getting lots of likes.
Relationship between physical pain and ostracism
Same brain regions. Social pain. Tylenol can relieve.
Do people relive past social pain or physical more easy?
social pain
How do those who were ordered ostracize others feel?
Same distress as the ostracized.
What types of people does exclusion hurt longest?
Anxious, younger people
What happens to brain of those ostracized?
Deficits in inhibiting unwanted behavior regions
Factors that nurture liking/loving (friendship/attraction)
Proximity, Familiarity, Physical Attraction, Similarity, Reciprocity
Mere exposure relates to which factor of friendship/attraction?
Proximity
Matching Phenomenon
Tendency for men and women to choose partners who are similar in attractiveness and other traits
Physical-attractiveness stereotype
Tendency for people to perceive physically attractive to have other good social traits too
Physical attraction and personality
No difference (no correlation)
We perceive attractive people as likable. Do we perceive likable people as attractive?
Yep. Goes both ways.
Geographical vs. Functional distance
Functional is how often paths cross
Which phenomenon of nurturing likableness is adaptive?
Anticipation of interaction. We are biased to like those we see often.
How does mere exposure relate to boredom?
It goes against it. Repeated exposure does not decrease liking, but increases. But there is such a thing as too much exposure.
Mere exposure is stronger when they’re in what state when something is exposed to them?
When they are unconscious of the exposition
_____ are often more instantaneous than thinking
emotions
Adaptive significance of mere-exposure effect
Categorize familiar things as safe.
Negative side of mere-exposure
We are naturally scared of what’s unfamiliar. Natural out-group exclusion.
Do people prefer their mirror image or an actual image of them? What phenomenon?
Mirror. Mere exposure effect.
How does physical attractiveness predict dating frequency?
Good predictor for both men and women.
What did the study on matching first-year couples to dance randomly find?
Only physical attraction predicted who they liked.
What happens to friends’ physical attractiveness over time?
Less similar to each other.