PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Rhesus Macaque, Tylenol (Brand), Opiate

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Arash Abizadeh

Document Summary

The (fundamental) need to belong (baumeister & leary, 1995) Humans have a pervasive drive to form and maintain at least a minimum quantity of lasting, positive, significant interpersonal relationship . A great deal of human behaviour and thought is caused by this fundamental interpersonal motive . Belonging consists: frequent interactions, persistent caring. Unsatisfied needs should lead to pathology (medical, psychological, behavioural) Fundamental-universal and non-derivative: not limited to certain people or circumstances. Robbers cave study, minimal group paradigm, proximity (easy & automatic) People should resist relationships dissolution, and feed bad when it occurs. Distress upon separation, reluctance to dissolve bad relationships, distress when they do. Grief, jealousy, anger, sadness, despair are all common reactions to the threat separation. Function of emotions is to regulate belonging need . Rejection should be upsetting and set in motion efforts to form new bonds, and strengthen existing ones (feeling bad is adaptive)