Chapter 15 Flashcards
Three ways personality interacts with situations
Selection, evocation, and manipulation
Selection
Our personality selects situations and people ewe interact with. (decision points)
Evocation
Personality qualities evoke certain responses in us
Manipulation
How we try and influence others
Complementary Needs Theory
States that people are attracted to those who have different personality dispositions than they have. (Opposites attract)
Attraction Similarity Theory
States that people are attracted to those who have similar personality characteristics (Birds of a feather)
Assortative Mating
People marry people similar to themselves
Highest predictor of marital happiness
The agreeableness of your partner
Men are more sexually satisfied when their wives are….
High on the conscientiousness scale.
Wives are more satisfied with intellectual conversation when their husbands are….
High on the conscientiousness scale.
Linking with relationship dissatisfaction in both males and females….
Low emotional stability in their partner
Violation of Desire
Predict that people whose partners lack desired characteristics will more often dissolve a relationship
Most significant predictor of marital instability
Emotional instability
Shyness has a substantial impact on…
Selective entry into or avoidance of situations
High on psychoticism - choose which situations
Volatile and spontaneous versus formal or stable ones
