PSYC 3730H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Bowlby, Swimming Upstream, Dysfunctional Family
26 Jan 2016
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In intimate relationships, the employer vs employee, etc. Happy healthy relationships have a balance of power, and an imbalance of power = bad. Making a conscious decision to compromise (living the idea that if one of you wins the argument, the both of you lose) Using coercion or manipulation to make your partner to do what you want (vs the decision to cooperate with your partner) Decision to be kind and polite to partner (vs pushing their. Power to be affectionate vs power to be neglectful (ie: Power to assume that your partner has the best intentions (attribution buttons) stonewalling) theory) One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment - gandhi. There are two different broad types of power:
