COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Realplayer
14 Dec 2017
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People want to maximize rewards while minimizing costs in relationships. Suggests that we conduct cost-benefit analyses of our relationships. Cost: negative values; things we give up or lose. Rewards: positive values, things we gain or get. In a relationship, we are determining whether we are gaining things or losing things. Key concept of this theory is standards of comparison: What we think we deserve, and what we think is available to us. Comparison levels (cl): our subjective standards of what to expect in particular kinds of relationships. Can be based on past relationships, current relation we are, or fictional relationships in popular culture, or based on relationships of what we observe with other people around us. Comparison level suggests we compare new relationships versus other pre-existing relationships (comparing we think a romantic relationship is supposed to look like and what we have)
