PSYC 3341 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Physical Attractiveness, Individualism, Decision Tree Model
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In social loneliness, people are dissatisfied because they lack a social network of friends and acquaintances. In emotional loneliness, people are lonely because they lack affection and emotional support from at least one intimate relationship. Test 3: do you feel a part of a community that you think positively about that values your contributions, defined by. Influence: membership, reinforcement of needs, shared emotional connection. Chapter 8 attraction and relationships: we are social creatures with a need to belong, links with health, need for affiliation/belongingness. Types of love: nurturant, companionate, passionate, attachment. Perspectives: evolutionary: find characteristics that have provided reproductive gains relative to losses. Men and women have developed different strategies for mate selection (attraction) bcause of different reproductive problems over time: attachment, culture. Sexual strategies: long term similiarties exist, short term differences exist, intelligence level. Desired age difference: men prefer younger women, women prefer older men, some cultural variation.
