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What is Attraction?

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It’s a motivational state that draws people together. It predisposes positive feeling, thinking, behaving toward another.

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What is Physical Attraction?

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Attraction based on the way someone physically appears “I like the way you look.”

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What is Social Attraction?

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Attraction based on someone’s social likability “I want to hang out with you.”

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What is Relational Attraction?

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Attraction based on the desire to start a romantic relationship with.

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What is Fatal Attraction?

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Attraction that ends up being misplaced and untrue. “I hate what I thought I was attracted to.”

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What do you have when you have task, physical, and social attraction?

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Global Attraction

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What types of attractions creates relational attraction?

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Social and physical

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What is TASK-oriented attraction?

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An attraction based on the desire of collaborating with another person “I want to work with you.”

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What are the target characteristics affecting physical attraction?

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  • More aesthetically pleasing to look at.
  • More socially skilled and rewarding with partners.
  • Associating with highly attractive partners and rewarding.
  • People assume that attractive people are good.
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What are universally attractive physical features?

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-Generic faces
-Women w/youthful, immature facial features
-Men w/large eyes, prominent cheek bones, large chins, broad smiles
-symmetry
Waist-to-hip ratio (70%)

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What are the two components that influence global attraction?

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1) Feelings of affection for another based on warmth and 2) feelings of respect based on competence

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People who score high on both dimensions are considered as:

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most attractive.

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What are the environmental variables of attraction?

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Crowdedness
Loudness
Darkness
Disinhibition

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What’s the danger of the environmental variables?

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A misattribution of arousal.

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What is flirtation?

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The method of indirectly communicating your attraction to another person.

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True or false: You should flirt in your established relationships

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True.

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True or false: People tend to trust nonverbal information more than verbal information?

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true

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What is the percentage range of meaning being communicated nonverbally?

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60 and 90%

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Why is flirting interactions considered useful?

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Because nonverbal information is ambiguous, thus less risky than verbal information.

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What are the key nonverbal behaviors associated with flirting?

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Gazing, smiling, warm vocal tones, and close distancing.

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What is the Attentiveness theme of Flirting and Courtship?

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Catch eye contact then look away, so that I’m not staring at you.
“I am aware of you and am acknowledging you.”

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What is the Approachability theme of Flirting and Courtship?

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Communicating that I am a safe person to interact with.

“I am open to the possibility of communicating with you.”

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What is the Submissiveness theme of Flirting and Courtship?

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Body language and positioning is open.

“I am not trying to be aggressive or threatening to you.”

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What are the 5 stages that couples pass through when attempting to flirt or court?

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  • Attention
  • Courtship Readiness
  • Positioning
  • Invitations and Sexual Arousal
  • Resolution
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What is the goal of the Attention Stage?

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To secure other’s attention and make the best possible impression.

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True or false: gaining attention can either be obtained accidentally or purposefully?

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True

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What are Attention-getting behaviors?

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Glancing
Tentative smiling
Primping/preening

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What are the factors affecting attraction?

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Target Characteristics, Environmental factors, observer characteristics

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What occurs in the Courtship Readiness Stage?

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Partner initiating flirtation decides if target is approachable.

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In the Courtship Readiness Stage, could the initiator be rebuffed and/or met with negativity?

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Yes, because there is no guarantee that the target has received the flirting in a positive, in-his-favor sort of way, so he/she can react negatively.

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What are the behavior indicators of Courtship Readiness?

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Sustained mutual gaze
Smiling
Raised eyebrows
More direct body orientation
Head tilting toward target
More primping (sucking in stomachs, arranging of clothing/hair, etc)
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What occurs during the positioning stage?

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Contact has been made, increase availability to each other; decreased availability to everyone else, and cornering off.

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Despite mutual acknowledgement of attraction, what is still occurring?

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Interaction is still ambiguous and cautious.

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What are the behavioral indicators of the positioning stage?

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Forward Leaning
Close distancing
Gazing and smiling
Gesturing and expressive voices
Lowered voices
Synchrony
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What occurs during the Invitations and Sexual Arousal stage?

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It’s an indication that sexual interaction is desired. While its initiated by touch, it’s still considered ambiguous. There is an increase in intimacy (carrying/clutching activities, grooming partner, acting sexually provocative)

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What are the behavioral indicators of the Invitations and Arousal stage?

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Clutching/carry (carrying books/bag, holding hands, leaning on other)
Grooming (tag tucking, brushing away stray hair)
Activing Provocative (revealing more skin, touching partner)

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What occurs in the Resolution Stage?

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The acceptance of invitation for sexual interaction.

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What happens if the Resolution Stage is not met?

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The first four stages are known as a quasi-courtship, due to misinterpretation of cues.

32
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What does Henningsen argue about flirtation?

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That not all flirting behavior is sexually motivated.

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What are the six motivations for flirting (according to Henningsen)?`

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  • Sex
  • Fun
  • Exploring (Experimental stage of Knapp’s Model)
  • Relational (Flirt with someone that you have a relationship with so you can escalate the relationship)
  • Esteem
  • Instrumental (Goal-driven; I am trying to achieve some objective of mine)
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How do men misinterpret flirtation?

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Men, more than women, perceive flirting as sexually motivated.

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How do women misinterpret flirtation?

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Women, more than men, perceive flirting as useful purposes of fun and relationship-building.

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How do men AND women misinterpret flirtation?

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Men and women equally perceive flirting as having instrumental, exploring and esteem functions.

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