Chapter 8 - Liking and Loving Flashcards
Social support
The approval, assistance, advice, and comfort that we receive from those with whom we have developed stable positive relationships
Close relationships
Relationships between people that are characterized by loving, caring, commitment, and intimacy– such as those between adult friends, dating partners, lovers, and married couples
Interpersonal attraction
The strength of our liking or loving for another person
Physical attractiveness stereotype
The tendency to perceive attractive people as having positive characteristics, such as sociability and competence
Mere exposure
The tendency to prefer stimuli that we have seen frequently
Passionate love
The kind of love that we experience when we are first getting to know a romantic partner
Companionate love
Love that is based on friendship, mutual attraction, common interest, mutual respect, concern for each other’s welfare
Reciprocal self-disclosure
The tendency to communicate frequently, without fear of reprisal, and in an accepting and empathetic manner
Communal relationships
Close relationships in which partners suspend their need for equity and exchange, giving their support to the partner in order to meet his or her needs and without consideration of the costs to themselves
Exchange relationships
Relationships in which each of the partners keeps track of his or her contributions to the partnership
Interdependent
Relying to a great degree on each other to meet their goals
Triangular model of love
An approach that suggests that there are different types of love and that each is made up of different combinations of cognitive and affective variables, specified in terms of passion, intimacy and commitment
Attachment style
Individual differences in how people relate to others in close relationships
