Task 8- Love Flashcards
Averageness effect
humans have evolved to prefer aberave faces to those with unusual or distinctive features
Proximity
The factor of living close by is known to play an important role in the early stages of forming a friendship
Three ideal partner dimensions
1) warmth/trustworthiness
- > showing care & intimacy
2) vitality/attractiveness
- > Signs of health-> reproductive fitness
3) status/resources
- > financially solid/stable
What increases liking (3)
- Proximity (live/work close by)
- Familiarity (feeling like knowing them)
- Similarity (they are like us)
Social matching
pairing people up on basis of compatible attitudes, sharing demographic characteristics
Assortative mating
non-random coupling of individuals based on their resemblance to each other on one/more characteristics
Self-disclosure
the sharing of intimate information and feelings with another person
Reinforcement-affect model
model of attraction which postulates that we like people who are around when when we experience a positive feeling
Social exchange
people often use form of everyday economics when they weigh up costs & rewards before deciding what to do
Cost-reward ratio
liking for another person is determined by calculating what it will cost to be reinforced by that person
minimax strategy
relating to others, we try to minimise the costs and maximise the rewards that accrue
Comparison level
standard that developes over time (through past experiences) allowing us to judge whether a new relationship is profitable or not
Equity theory
special case of social exchange theory:
-> defining a relationship as equitable when the ratio of inputs to outcomes are seen to be the same by both partners
Emotion-in-relationship model
relationships pivot on strong, well-established and wide-ranging expectations about a partner’s behaviour
Partner-regulation
strategy to encourage a partner to match ideal standard of behaviour
