Micro-relationships Flashcards
What are four motivations for affiliation (engagement in positive social interactions with other individuals)?
- Social comparison
- emotional support
- positive stimulation
- attention
What are emotionships?
Our well-being depends on us being able to regulate our emotions
The people in our lives help us to do this, we may call on different people to help us manage different emotions = emotionships
People with more diverse emotionship portfolios are…
Less lonely, higher satisfaction with life
Had better quality relationships
What are affiliation motivations for compared to emotionships?
AM = Social comparison, emotional support, positive stimulation, attention
E = cheering up sadness, calming down anxiety, capitalizing happiness
Define the term “weak ties”
Less frequent contact, lower emotional intensity, limited intimacy
What are two advantages of weak ties?
- Provides bridges between different social circles, thus allowing access to new info
- Employees who had more weak ties at work were judged by their supervisors to be more creative
What did Sandstorm and Dunn (2014) find about the relationship between weak ties and happiness?
People are happier on days when they interact with more weak ties
People who have more interactions with weak ties are happier than people who have fewer interactions with weak ties
The relationship between people’s happiness extends up to how many degrees of separation?
Three degrees of separation (friends of one’s friends’ friends)
What are two different types of interactions you could choose to have with people?
Efficient, or social
When talking to a barista, how did efficient and social interactions compare?
Social had higher positive affect, satisfaction with experience and sense of belonging
Efficient had stronger negative affect
What proportion of people in the kindness test said the last person who was kind to them was…
1. A strong tie
2. A weak tie
3. A stranger
- 47%
- 21%
- 9%
