Midterm Flashcards
Girl next door phenomenon
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
Birds of a feather
You tend to like people more similar to you are
Attracted to people with same age, background, ethnicity, and social status
Mere exposure effect
Repeated exposure to any stimuli, including a person, leads to greater liking for that stimulus
Homophily
Tendency to have a contact with people equal in social status
Homography
When someone marries someone with who they share important characteristics
Opposite attract
Dominant people paired with submissive people reported greater satisfaction with their relationship
Matching phenomenon
When people choose other people whose social net worth matches their own
Perceived similarity
The extent to which the individual believes his or her partner is similar on important characteristics
Disadvantages of online dating
People misrepresenting themselves
1/4 of people do this
Social biology sexual strategy theories
Sexual behaviour within an evolutionary perspective thus focusing on heterosexual relationships
Historical function of mating has been for reproductin
Intimate experiences
Are the meaning a person gives to their interactions with abother
Intimate relationships
Are the result of many intimate interactions with an individual
Self disclosure
Involves telling ur partner personal things about yourself
Who created the triangular theory of love
Robert sternburg
What are the 3 points of the triangular theory of love
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
The attachment theory of love
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
Secure lovers
Have a sense of their own lovability and the expectation that other people are generally accepting and responsive
Preoccupied lovers
Have a sense of their o win unlovability but a positive evaluation of other people
Fearful lover
Have a negative expectation of both themselves and other peopkr
Dismissing lover
Feel themselves to be worthy of love but have a negative view of other people
2 types of jealousy
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