Week 2 - Social Interaction - Social Affiliation & Attraction Flashcards
How does Baumeister & Leary (1995) describe the need to belong
“Human begins have a fundamental need to form and maintain a minimum quantity of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships”
“We need relationships to survive and thrive”
Whats the evolutionary perspective on the need to belong?
- Early humans lived in small groups surrounded by a difficult environment
- Adaptive to be social and caring: more likely to survive, mature and reproduce
- Our species evolved and became characterized by people who were close to others, caring and sought acceptance
How is the need to belong like our need for food?
- Relationships are easy to form and difficult to break
- Without close connections, we suffer
- Our need to belong can be satiated
- The need to belong universal
Social bonds are ….. to form and ….. to break
Easy to form
Difficult to break
DeWall & Bushman 2011 found what about rejection?
Rejection hurts: pain, reduced wellbeing, intellectual functioning
What is a lack of social network a strong predictor of?
Illness and mortality
What did Holt-Laustand et al. (2010) find out about martial status?
Martial status didn’t matter as much, quality was important
What did Coyne et al (2001) find in patients who suffered a heart attack?
The patients who were in happy relationships lived longer than those in unhappy relationships
What do the results from Holt-Laustand et al. (2010) and Coyne et al. (2001) suggest?
- Need to feel socially connected is a matter of life or death
- Especially important that relationships are highly satisfying
What did Wheeler & Nesleek (1997)?
People had 6 friends in college, once they had 6 friends, they would stop putting effort into making new friends
What happens to the amount of time someone spends with their friends when they’re in a romantic relationship
They spend less time with their friends
Reviewed evidence does not seem culture-specific, what does this suggest?
Relationships everywhere are easy to form and difficult to break
What does the universality of the need to belong suggest?
Suggests that the need to belong is a basic need, that we share worldwide
What does relationship quality promote?
Surviving and thriving
Pleasant daily social interactions are associated with what?
Greater life satisfaction
