PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Desirability Bias, Portable Document Format, Breaking Hearts

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Lecture 5 unrequited love and the challenge of disengaging. As soon as we set a goal there is an universal action plan. Suggestion: earlier in our life age 3, 4, 5, when you set goal, you need to (action plan) focus your attention give e ort prepare to persist. To understand why unrequited love occurs and what it can teach us about goal- striving. Why does unrequited love occur and how is it experienced by the would-be- lover and the rejecter. Romantic, passionate love that is felt by one person toward another person who feels substantially less attraction toward the lover. Tv show - bachelor in paris (a relationship that fails to form) it"s not really simple, the person pursuing declares the love, but his research often suggests that even after being rejected, the person keeps persisting. Travis (seems to be nice, pretty good guy), he casted some ladies pursuing him o .