Chapter 12 - Intimacy - Lectures Flashcards
What do sexual relationships involve?
Intimacy, love, and physical attraction to varying degrees.
What plays an important role in short-term sexual partner selection?
Physical attractiveness
Who places more emphasis on opposite-sex physical attractiveness, men or women?
Men
In what way do “opposites attract”?
People are attracted to individuals with dissimilar immune systems. Mating choices are influenced by body scent-preferences that indicate MHC similarity/dissimilarity.
MHC
The histocompatibility complex that is used to distinguish self from non-self factors.
In what order of preference do women respond to pick-up strategies?
Most favourably to third-party introductions, then direct introduction lines, and least to cute-flippant lines.
What types of activities can hooking up and casual sex include?
Everything from kissing to intercourse.
What makes hooking up easier in the twentieth century?
Better contraceptives and more permissive attitudes about sex.
What is central to romantic love?
Sexual attraction, desire, and trust.
Passionate love
Intense longing, preoccupation with, and idealization of the loved one.
Companionate love
Warmth and affection, based on deep friendship that is comfortable and trusting.
Three components of love in Robert Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love
Intimacy, Passion and Commitment
6 Love Styes
Eros, Storge, Ludus, Pragma, Mania, and Agape
Two-factor theory of love states that attraction is based on….
Cognition and physiological arousal
What are eight major themes that make up great sex?
Authenticity, being present, connection with a partner, exploration, extraordinary communication and empathy, transcendence, vulnerability, and deep sexual and erotic intimacy.
