PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Selective School, Shyness, Sensation Seeking

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

Situation selection- everyday life, people choose to enter some situations and to avoid others. These forms of situation selection can hinge on personality dispositions and how we view ourselves. These choices range in importance from the seemingly trivial to the profound. Mate selection provides a dramatic example of their mechanism. By selecting a mate, you are simultaneously selecting the social acts you will experience and the network of friends and family in which those acts will be carried out. After mutual attraction or love, personality characteristics loom large in people"s mate selection preferences. Personality characteristics were respondents first choice after love. Assortive mating for personality: the search for the similar. Over the past century, two fundamentally competing scientific theories have advanced for who is attracted to whom. Complementary needs theory postulates that people are attracted to those who have different personality dispositions than they have. Attraction similarity theory postulates that people are attracted to those who have similar personality characteristics.