Interpersonal Attraction

Question 1

Social Comparison Theory

Answer 1

Human beings have a need to evaluate ourselves. When we don’t have objective criteria to indicate how well we’re doing, we evaluate ourselves by comparing ourselves to other people.

Question 2

Loneliness

Answer 2

Subjective sense of discomfort when we feel our relationships are lacking something; includes emotional, and social. Quantitative (number of friends) versus qualitative (superficial friendships). Contrast with aloneness.

Question 3

Emotional Loneliness

Answer 3

Feeling the absence of an intimate person in one’s life.

Question 4

Social Loneliness

Answer 4

Feeling the lack of integration into a community/network/group of people.

Question 5

Aloneness

Answer 5

Objective state of being physically apart from other people. Being alone can be pleasant or unpleasant.

Question 6

Association(Attraction)

Answer 6

We like people who we associate with good experiences and dislike people who we associate with bad experiences.

Question 7

Reinforcement(Attraction)

Answer 7

We like people who reward us. Social approval is a type of social reward: we like people who evaluate us positively

Question 8

Social Exchange Theory

Answer 8

Our liking for another person is based on the costs and benefits that other people provide to us. We like the people with whom we have profitable interactions: rewards outweigh the costs.

Question 9

“Pratfall Effect”

Answer 9

When someone appears to be outstanding and seemingly flawless or perfect, they are liked even more when they make a slight mistake. However, someone who is looked at as mediocre is liked less when they make a mistake.

Question 10

Physical Attractiveness

Answer 10

We like people we are physically attracted to.

Question 11

High Self Monitors

Answer 11

People concerned about the image they are conveying to others.

Question 12

Low Self Monitors

Answer 12

pay most attention to interior traits (personality).

Question 13

Halo Effect

Answer 13

We tend to assume that people who are physically attractive also have other positive characteristics. There is an assumption that good things go together.

Question 14

Radiating Effect of Beauty

Answer 14

It is rewarding to be seen with an attractive person.

Question 15

Similarity(Attraction)

Answer 15

We tend to like people who have similar attitudes, values, and interests.

Question 16

Pro-Beauty Bias

Answer 16

When someone is physically more attractive, we tend to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Question 17

Morbidity(reading)

Answer 17

Illness or disease.

Question 18

Mortality(reading)

Answer 18

Death.

Question 19

Social Connection (conversely social disconnection)(reading)

Answer 19

An umbrella term that encompasses the structure, functions, and quality of social relationships.

Question 20

Social Disconnection(reading)

Answer 20

Loneliness, social isolation; associated with long term consequences like dying earlier.

Question 21

Social Assets(reading)

Answer 21

Social support, social integration.

Question 22

Bradford Hill Guidelines(reading)

Answer 22

A framework with nine guidelines for determining whether a particular variable causes a particular outcome.

Question 23

Social Science(reading)

Answer 23

Study of society and social relationships.