FRHD 1020 Lecture 5: jan 25
30 Mar 2017
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Love: people underestimate lover"s flaws, ignore negative personality aspects, rose tinted glasses, falling in love: Misattributions: romantic/ passionate love: attribution of arousal to another person, cause for arousal can be misattributed. Age differences in love: age confounded with experience, older= longer relationships and greater number of relationships. More likely to believe in love at first sight. More stock in passion- most related to men"s satisfaction in relationships: women: Dark face of love: jealousy: intolerant or hostile emotional response to a real or imagined threat to a love relationship can set boundaries suspicious or reactive. Women: jealous about intimacy low self-esteems and insecurity associated with jealousy. Not always about sex or intimacy: unrequited love: love that is not returned two reasons: More attractive rejects less attractive less serious rejects more serious: control, manipulation, stalking, violence. Fehr (1988) features of love: trust, care, honesty, respect, friendship, loyalty, commitment, support. Is this love: soul mate a person who is temperamentally suited to another.
