Relationships - breakdown Flashcards
1
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Felmlee 1995 (fatal attraction)
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- open interviews
- 27% of participants showed initial attraction to a trait which later became cause for relationship breakdown
- fun to foolish was most common fatal attraction process
- highest replication was 67%
2
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Felmlee 2004 (fatal attraction)
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- 200 participants
- recruited at swimming pool, complete questionnaire which used mix of open and closed questions
- used measures of personality variables
- respondent’s level of initial attraction to partner is positively related to evaluation of that trait being expressed too much
- found in 15.5% of relationships
3
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Bertzig (EE, infidelity)
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- meta-analysis from wide diversity of societies
- adultery by either partner caused divorce in 28% of societies
- adultery by females alone in 61% of societies
- adultery by males alone in 2% of societies
- double standard, adultery by men considered more acceptable
4
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Buss (EE, infidelity)
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- questionnaire studies
- men more upset by threat of sexual infidelity than women
- women more upset by men diverting his resources to another woman
5
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Buunk (EE, infidelity)
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- sex differences in three studies
- men showed more distress at sexual infidelity and women at emotional infidelity
6
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Bertzig (EE, infertility)
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- infertility was second highest in reasons for divorce
7
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Fisher (EE, infertility)
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- data from 45 countries
- modal number of children in divorce is 0 for 62% of societies
8
Q
UN (EE, infertility)
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- 45 societies
- 39% of divorces occur when there are no children, compared to 26% when single child and 19% when two children
9
Q
Lack of economic support
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- major predictor of females divorcing males in 20% of societies
- in the US divorce rate is 50% higher among women who earn more than their husbands
- drop level in resource provision is associated with increase in divorce rates by females but not males
