Relationships Flashcards
Matching Hypothesis
more likely to match well with people similar to them - more attracted to those of the same demographic / values
Dunbar and Waynforth
lonely hearts
42% men want youthfulness / 44% attractiveness
women 25% youth / 22% attractive
Dissimilarity
filter theory - uncomfortable around those that are diff
Buss
survey
10,000+ / 32 countries
- women (36/37) want finance
- men (37) want attractiveness
Intrapsychic doubt
beginning of dissolution - leave normal relationship in favour of a newer one - also prevents people leaving abusive ones
duck
7 longitudinal (meta anal)
- 7 factors of dissolution
- Difference in personality
- Deception
- Child of divorce
- Different demographic
- Jealousy
- Attitudes change
- Young ages
- Lower socioeconomic status
- Relocation
sexual selection
in EEA
- physiological cues pref - as they indicate youth (fertility) / symmetry (health)
Clark and Hatfield
uni campus
- men / women asked 3 Q
- go on a date = 50:50
- go home = 6:69
- sleep = 0:75
Equity
need someone who is complimentary of their needs - gives something they need
Cole and Leets
people more likely to develop Para social Relationship with fav tv character if they are insecure resistant
Social Exchange Theory
humans = selfish and self serving
- relationships = positive / negative
- weigh up relationships (commit) based upon if they provide profit - more pos than neg
Trivers
Parental Investment
- women seek men who share (adaptive all the risk)
- Men seek many women (adaptive - no certainty)
Demographic
marriages with diff demo = more unstable over time
= yet similarities like attitudes = strongest factors (ish) in attraction
investment model
investment model attitudes towards investment = different perceptions of relationships = differentiating likelihood of committing to a relationship.
INVESTMENT = SATISFACTION
Simpson
Ps rate people’s attractiveness
- lower if in a relationship
Walster
Equity theory
- own perception of equality more imp than profit vs loss
- distress = when u put in a lot of effort - receive little
- relative to how much u think u deserve (pos)
Para social Relationships
where one person spends intense amounts of time / energy into a person who doesn’t even know they exist (celebrity)
Kerkhoff and Davies
3 levels of filter theory
- demo / attitudes / values
longi study = post 18 months - meeting needs becomes more imp than values
Virtual Relationship
higher levels of self-disclosure - less barriers compared to face to face
- able to communicate online alot
Maltby
levels of PSR =
- Entertainment social = fun to keep up with Celeb
- Intense personal = obsessive tendencies
- Borderline pathological - identify with celebs successes and failures - fantasising etc.
Cuckoldry
male fear of raising and investing in a child that is actually another mans.
McCutcheon
PSR = weak sense of identity
- Absorption = focus on celeb
- Addiction = desire for deeper connection
also likely to have lower IQ
Rusbult
Rusbult Q =
- satisfaction
- comp to alternative
- correlated with commitment
= repeated post 7 m
- commitment is derived from the level of satisfaction derived from the relationship.
self-disclosure
sharing personal information with someone else.
