Interpersonal Attraction & Relationships Flashcards
1
Q
What makes species social?
A
Cooperating against treath
Dilution Effect - danger of successful preditor attack is divided amongst group members
Confusion Effect - decreasing preditor attack sccess with increasing prey group size
2
Q
How do relationships start?
A
Proximity - familiarity - similarity
3
Q
What attracts us to other people?
A
Looks and status
4
Q
Self Disclousure
A
Jourard, 1971 - revelaing information about yoursel is crucial in relationship formation and maintenence
5
Q
Three factor theory of love
A
Hatfield & Walster, 1981 - state of physiological arousal, an appropirate label for that arousal, an appropriate love object
