Week 3

Question 1

What are the 6 types of love?

Answer 1

1. Compassionate (friend)
2. Passionate (all-consuming emotionally; physically expressed)
3. Game-playing (all about playing the love game and winning, relationship ends when it gets boring)
4. Possessive (emotionally intense, jealous)
5. Selfless (unconditionally caring, forgiving)
6. Logical (live shopping for a mate, contentment)

Question 2

Proximity

Answer 2

The predictor of whether people get together

Question 3

The three reasons of proximity

Answer 3

1. Laws of probability- can’t love someone you have never met
2. Mere exposure- the more you’re exposed to it the more you like it
3. Get to know each other in a non-threatening way-hanging our frees up worried about rejection

Question 4

Superficial love

Answer 4

Mum’s spend more time gazing at more beautiful babies
Babies look at more attractive faces
Good looking kids are more popular, have more friends, teachers rate them higher and smarter
Good looking people are more likely to get married and have lighter sentences

Question 5

Taller men

Answer 5

Seen to be smarter, more leadership potential and earn more money

Question 6

Physical attractiveness

Answer 6

Facial symmetry
Averageness effect
Hour glass women- weight vs waist to hip ratio
Triangular men

Question 7

How do we chose our partners?

Answer 7

Social exchange theory-maximise benefits and minimise costs in relationships with others
Love like a market place where value of relationship is compared to alternatives

Question 8

Love evolution differences between men and women

Answer 8

Men look for youth and looks (sign of health and reproduction potential)
Women look for personality and resources more (parental quality and ability to support and protect)

Question 9

Male vs Female jealousy

Answer 9

Men are more jealous for sexual attachment

Women are more jealous for emotional attachment

Question 10

Attractive study- go out tonight, come home with me, sleep with me

Answer 10

Majority of women say yes to go out, then come home, little said to sleep with
Majority of men said to sleep with, them come home, the least said to go out

Question 11

Close relationship-loneliness

Answer 11

Loneliness has negative impact on health
Strike patients more likely to have another stroke
More likely to get sick

Question 12

Close relationships-bad relationship

Answer 12

Less supportive of health
Study found fighting in a good relationship has little impact on their immunity, distressed relationships have suppressed immunity

Question 13

Self-verification theory

Answer 13

According to Bill Swann, we seek feedback that reinforces our pre-existing ideas about ourselves

Question 14

Consequence of self-verification theory

Answer 14

Low self-esteem people are. Ore attracted to people with poor opinions of them compared to people with high opinions of them

Question 15

Gain-loss hypothesis

Answer 15

We tend to like people who initially dislike us and warm up to, and dislike who initially like us and turn cold

Question 16

Perverse patterns of attraction

Answer 16

Maltreatment effects: studies in 50s and 60s which would expose infant animals to abusive “caregivers” or aversive stimulus to a target.
Results were counter-intuitive- no effects in bonding and apparent increase in attachment

Question 17

Maltreatment effects

Answer 17

Studies with dogs (Fisher) and chicks (Rajecki) suggest that switching between reward and punishment can have perverse effects on infant animals

Question 18

Oscillating punishment and reward in humans

Answer 18

Domestic violence
Abused children’s attachment to abusive caregivers
“Identification with the aggressor” effects in WW2 camps/ re-education camps
Brainwashing of American POWs in Korean War
Stockholm syndrome
Cult member loyalty