PSYC 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Interpersonal Attraction, Relational Aggression, Physical Attractiveness
25 Dec 2016
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Psyc 1104 - lecture 12 - social psychology (part 2) Helping behaviour: altruism: self-sacrificing behaviour carried out to benefit others. They need to interpret it as an emergency. They need to feel confident that they know how to help/the form of assistance that is needed for the situation. Aggression - behaviours that are meant to harm others, whether physical or verbal: frustration-aggression hypothesis: aggression in response to frustration, women - relational aggression, men - direct aggression, high levels of testosterone, and low levels of serotonin. Interpersonal attraction: three levels: cognitive, affective, and behavioural, key factors of liking (fondness and affection) Similarity, proximity, self-disclosure, situational factors, and physical attractiveness. Love and loving: freud - love is a sublimated sexual energy, evolutionary - love helps propagate species, rubin (1970) - there are three elements of love. Attachment, caring, and intimacy: triangular theory of love - intimacy, passion, and commitment.
