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Love Matters Flashcards

Chapter 14

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What advantages does being attractive has ?

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  • getting better grades
  • being seen as more just
  • having an advantage in court
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Meta analysis

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  • analysis of several studies related to the same topic
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evolutionary social psychology

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  • relationships can only be understood in terms of evolution.
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What is the good genes theory ?

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  • fertility –> when women are about to ovulate they prefer men that are competitive . For langterm they look after a good father and care taker, with financial success.
  • seeing red–> red is sexual appealing to men , signals redyness for pairing in nature.
  • hourglass figure –> favourite figure of males on women , signals good health

good genes theory: we look for partners with a healthy appearance that indicate good genes.

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Average effect

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  • Humans like average faces more than those that are more unusual
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What are the main factors when it comes to choosing a partner ?

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  • warmth - trustworthiness and showing that they care and like to be intimate
  • attractiveness and health
  • being liked by others and being financially sound
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What increases liking ?

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  • Proximity , Familiarity and Attitude Similarity, personality , cultural stereotypes , assortative mating , self disclosure and trust ,
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How do you call it if an attitude is quite similar to yours and that makes the other person attractive ?

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  • similarity of attitudes
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What the hell is assortative mating?

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  • people choose their partner because of having several characteristics in common.
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What personal characteristics play a role in attraction and forming friendships?

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  • having a desirable personality

- self disclosure = opening up to someone about intimate topics .

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How much do cultural stereotypes have an influence on attractiveness?

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  • in North America people prefer the strong , assertive and dominant personalities - individualistic
  • in eastern cultures they prefer the traits: honest, sensitive , trustworthy

–> there is a general consent about some traits that are appealing to most of the cultures

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How is there a connection to Pavlovs dogs and the reinforcement approach?

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  • same principle
  • we tend to like people more if we associate and connect a positive event , feeling with them . If we feel something positive and they are around we tend to like them .
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need to affiliate

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  • the urge to make contact and to form connection with other people .
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Instinct

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  • innate drive genetically inherited
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Isolation and anxiety - social comparison theory

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Hospitalism

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  • a stated of depression and apathy that was discovered from infants that were not allowed to have close contact to any caregivers.
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Attachement behaviour

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the tendency of an infant to favor close contact to a caregiver

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Attachement style characteristics P. 604

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Social exchange

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  • describes the tendency of people to weigh up to do ( costs and rewards) before deciding what to do.
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cost - reward ration

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  • belonging to the social exchange theory

- if you like a person or not is dependent of how much effort that person costs to reinforce you. - calculation.

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minimax strategy

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  • towards others we try to minimise the costs and maximise the rewards.
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Profit

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  • in relationships when the rewards are bigger than the costs.
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Equity theory

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  • a case of the social exchange theory that pictures a relationship as fair if the input of both sides is the same.
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Procedural Justice

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  • fairness of the decision procedure
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Big five

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  • the five characteristics measured to compare different characters with each other.
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Emotions in relationship model

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  • close relationships evoke more strong emotions because in a relationship you tend to get more into conflict with the expectations among each other.
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Passionate Love / Companionate love - scale

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  • intense taking in of another person in combination with physiological arousal
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Three factor theory of love 610

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consummate love

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  • due to Sternberg the ultimate form of love involves, passion, commitment and intimacy.
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Sternbergs triangle of love 612

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social support networks

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Benefits
Costs
Communal

people that know and care about us and provide back up in times of distress.

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factors for an ongoing relationship 617

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Commitment

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ideal standard model

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What are four points that announce the end of a relationship?

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Self regulation - Partner Regulation

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Relationship dissolution model 618

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Phases in the break up of a relationship

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Attachement style

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  • the way a human develops relationships , due to his/ her early childhood.

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