Week 12: Love & close relationships

Question 1

What is the quadrumvirate model of love?

Answer 1

Passionate: romantic, sex
Companionate: family, want to be near
Compassionate: nurturing love, understanding needs
Attachment: caregiver or caring for love, has to do with output of attachment system

Question 2

What is the prototype approach to studying love? which answers are most typical?
How are prototypes represented?

Answer 2

Ask people to nominate features of love(rs) and ask others to rate “prototypicality”

Features related to companionate love more typical (not as many passionate love features)
- trust, honesty, caring, intimacy, respect

Represented

• Hedging: cant say you love someone and also not mention prototypical features
• Memory: more likely to recall prototypical features
• Response times: people respond to prototypical features faster when linking to love

Question 3

What is the relationship between oxytocin and love? What does the nasal spray study reveal?

Answer 3

Initial enthusiasm: some correlates
Distinctiveness and causation questions (might be more related to social relationships broadly)

Nasal spray: there is little evidence to suggest that considerable amounts of oxyT passes the BBB
- failure to replicate 1 2 1 mapping
Maybe it creates social spotlight - gets people to pay attention to social information to make a decision

Question 4

What are the most helpful traits to relationships?

Answer 4

Agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability

Question 5

What are the quadrants of capitalization?

Answer 5

1. active and constructive
2. Passive and constructive
3. Active and destructive
4. Passive and destructive

Question 6

What are the three types of responsive humor used in relationships?

Answer 6

1. Affiliative (memories): helpful, especially with high distress
2. Aggressive (putting someone down): worst in response to care seeking
3. Self-defeating: received poorly with high distress