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Intimacy Flashcards

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caution:

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some + behaviors could be interpreted - under different circumstances

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nonverbal signals of love (2001 study)

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  • 60 dating couples
  • discussions: first date, plan for tomorrow, area of conflict, etc.
  • self reports of love correlated with:
  • more affirmative head nods, Duchenne smiles, forward lean, and hand gestures
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nonverbal behavior and relational states (1979) study

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  • 20 distressed and nondistressed married couples
  • conflict resolution task
  • then, half were instructed to act happy and content (fake good) and half to act unhappy and distressed (fake bad)
  • verbal (e.g. compromise, problem description, agreement, approval, excuse, criticize) and nonverbal (e.g. attention, positive physical, no response, laugh) behaviors were recorded.
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nonverbal behavior and relational states (1979) results

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  • both distressed and non altered behavior in response to the instructions to fake good and fake bad
  • no differences in couples’ nonverbal behaviors (pos. or neg.) in the fake good or fake bad conditions
  • couples can fake happiness or distress verbally, but their nonverbal behaviors reveal the true state of their relationship.
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Gaze and intimacy

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  • couples who score high on romantic love scales exhibit a lot of mutual gaze (rubin)
  • need for affiliation in positively correlated with mutual gaze (Exline)
  • better adjusted married couples exhibit more mutual gaze than distressed couples (Noller)
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Gaze and initial attractiveness (2008)

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*d2l chart
-heterosexual participants look at photos of men and women
-remote eye tracking recording system
-all participants initially attracted to face of opposite sex models (especially women)
….then:
-women shift attention to legs, men to the chest

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speech rate and intimacy

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  • fewer and shorter pauses
  • faster speech rate
  • matching partners vocal cues
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pitch and romantic relationships (faney)

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  • method: place call to a close same sex friend or romantic partner
  • pose two questions: how are you? what are you doing?
  • men raised pitch when talking to romantic partner vs. friend
  • women lowered pitch.
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pitch and target attractiveness (2010)

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  • make phone calls to attractive and unattractive targets
  • showed them photos in advance of making the calls
  • no answer, so callers left a message on their voice mail
  • male and female spoke in lower pitch when talking to attractive targets
  • results on d2l
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gesture and intimacy

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  • in positive, friendly interactions, people exhibit more object focused gestures and fewer body focused gestures (freedman)
  • also use more illustrators when interacting with friendly others
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posture and intimacy

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  • more forward lean
  • direct shoulder/body orientation
  • greater postural mimicry
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smiles and intimacy

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  • not a very reliable sign of intimacy and involvement

- some people smile more in negative situations than in positive ones (e.g. phony smiles)

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romantic display rules (2012)

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  • male subjects watched 3 videos
  • horror film, infants, and a neutral film
  • thought they were being observed by an attractive or unattractive female research assistant
  • “attractive observer”=frowned less during horror film
  • “attractive observer”=smiled more while watching infant film
  • impression management via facial expression
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space and intimacy

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  • intimate 0-18”

- coupled with body (direct) orientation

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touch and intimacy

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  • more touch (esp. middle stages of close relationship)

- greater body accessibility

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decoding of nonverbal behavior and intimacy

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  • Shrout and Fiske (1981) coded behavior in interactions

- speakers were rated on socially desirable traits (e.g. friendly, snobbish)

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-which behaviors were associated with judgements of social desirability?

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  • more head nods
  • more short back channels (yes, uhuh, sure)
  • longer smile duration
  • more frequent filled pauses
  • longer gaze duration
  • d2l chart, decoding and intimacy*
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decoding touch and intimacy (2001)

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  • touch to face=most affection, attraction, love (jay-z and beyonce)
  • touch to waist and forearm show high romantic attraction
  • …but also indicative of harassment
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relationship closeness and decoding nonverbal behaviors (2004)

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  • close friends are better decoders of each others nonverbals than strangers are
  • close friends performed worse than acquantiances at decoding partners negative affect when partners attempted to disguise their negative emotion (e.g. sadness and anger)
  • close friends performed worse than strangers in this condition
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motivated inaccuracy model

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-when a relational partner has thoughts or feelings that could prove to be distressing to the perceiver, and are not clearly expressed, we choose to “look the other way”

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explanations of mimicry (ex: the transporter)

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  • role taking
  • empathy
  • communication
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Lakin 2004 explanations of mimicry

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  • nonconscious mimicry creates affiliation and affiliation can create nonconscious mimicry
  • this played an important part in human evolution
  • important for group members to feel a sense of psychological connection with each other
  • individuals with tendency to mimic others establish this sense of connection would therefore continue to be included in the group
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developmental aspects of interactive intimacy behavior

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  • mothers and infants synchronize facial expressiveness, gross body movements, and vocalizations
  • more synchrony in full term. vs. pre term infants and more in 5 months vs 3 months old
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Street and Capella 1989

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found 3-6 year old children converge to the speech rate and the response latency of an adult who interacted with them.

  • this reciprocity is associated with attraction toward the partner
  • interaction processes are regulated in adults, children, and young infants, and disturbance of their regulations causes problems

Nonverbal comm-Midterm 2 (23 decks)

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