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Girl next door phenomenon

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Geography and time limit our opportunities to meet people
Longitudinal study of 4000 people
Concluded your more likely to be attracted to people you have contact with multiple times than those who you have little contact with

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Birds of a feather

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You tend to like people more similar to you are
Attracted to people with same age, background, ethnicity, and social status

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Mere exposure effect

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Repeated exposure to any stimuli, including a person, leads to greater liking for that stimulus

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Homophily

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Tendency to have a contact with people equal in social status

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Homography

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When someone marries someone with who they share important characteristics

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Opposite attract

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Dominant people paired with submissive people reported greater satisfaction with their relationship

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Matching phenomenon

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When people choose other people whose social net worth matches their own

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Perceived similarity

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The extent to which the individual believes his or her partner is similar on important characteristics

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Disadvantages of online dating

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People misrepresenting themselves
1/4 of people do this

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Social biology sexual strategy theories

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Sexual behaviour within an evolutionary perspective thus focusing on heterosexual relationships
Historical function of mating has been for reproductin

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Intimate experiences

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Are the meaning a person gives to their interactions with abother

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Intimate relationships

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Are the result of many intimate interactions with an individual

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Self disclosure

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Involves telling ur partner personal things about yourself

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Who created the triangular theory of love

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Robert sternburg

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What are the 3 points of the triangular theory of love

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Intimacy - the emotional component of love
Passion - the motivation component of love
Decision and or commitment
Short term aspect is that one loves the other person
Long term aspect is the commitment to maintain that relationship

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The attachment theory of love

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The quality of early attachment of infant and parent will have an impact on our ability to form loving attachments to others when we’re adults

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Secure lovers

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Have a sense of their own lovability and the expectation that other people are generally accepting and responsive

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Preoccupied lovers

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Have a sense of their o win unlovability but a positive evaluation of other people

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Fearful lover

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Have a negative expectation of both themselves and other peopkr

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Dismissing lover

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Feel themselves to be worthy of love but have a negative view of other people

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2 types of jealousy

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Emotional - when one person believes or knows that the partner is emotionally attached or in love with another person
Sexual - when person believes or knows the partner wants to engage in or has engaged in sexual intimacy with another person

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Love in individualistic cultures

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Tend to emphasize individual goals over group and societal goals and interests

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Collectivist culture on love

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Emphasize group and collective goals over personal ones

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Sexual self disclosure

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ShaRing sexual likes and dislikes

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Gender role

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A set or norms, or culturally defined expectations, that define how people of one gender should behave

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Gender binary

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The classification of people into one of two categories male or female

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Stereotype

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A rigid set of beliefs about a group of people that distinguish them from the others and is applied to all members of that group

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Socialization

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The ways which society conveys to the individual it’s norms or expectations for his or her behaviour

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Intersectionality

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An approach that simultaneously considers the consequences of multiple group memberships such as the intersection of gender and ethnicity

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Acculturation

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The process of incorporating the beliefs and costumes of a new culture

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Sex typing

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Thought processes that split the world into female and male categories

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Who was Sandra Bem

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One of the first people that argued that masculinity and femininity should be viewed sperately

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Androgyny

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High on both masculinity and femininity

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Personality differences for gender

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Boys are more aggressive although females are just as capable but don’t act on it

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Health differences in gender

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Men die earlier than women - women are more likely to have support and seek help

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Intelligence differences in gender

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Girls are better than boys in verbal aspects, Boyd are bettter at spatial tasks

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Tearoom trade

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Heteroseuxal married men occasionally stop off at a public bathroom to engage in oral sex with other men

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Heterosexism

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Belief that being heterosexual is normal and is legitimate

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Paraphilia

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Intense and persistent unconventional sexual interest

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Fetishism

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Sexual fixation on an object or person and attachement of great erotic significance

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Sexual sadist

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Person who derives sexual excitement and satisfaction from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on another person

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Sexual masochist

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Person who is aroused by fantasies, urges, or behaviours involving being beaten, humiliated, bound, or tourtured to enhance sexual ecitement

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B-d bondage and discipline

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Use of physically retraining devicrs or psychological restraining commands as a central aspect of sexual interactions

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D-S dominance and submission

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Interactions involving consensual exchange of power, dominant partner uses power to control and sexually stimulate submissive

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Exhibitionism

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Displaying one’s genitals to a nonconsenting person

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Challenges of BDSM

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Stigma
Relationship problems
Self- acceptance

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Dogging

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British term to describe all kinds of outdoor sexual activity

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Hypersexuality

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An extraordinary high level of sexual activity and sex drive

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Nyphomania

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Hypersexuality in women

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Satyriasis

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Hypersexuality in men

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Dyspareunia

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Low libido

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Three factors of internet leading to compulsive behaviours

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Anonymous
Accessible
Affordable

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Asphyxiophilla

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Desire to induce in oneself a state of oxygen deficiency to create sexual arousal

54
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Coprophillia and urophillia

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Crop = poop is important to sexual satisfaction
Uro = urine is important for sexual satisfaction

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