PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Caudate Nucleus, Waking Hours, Job Performance
11 Feb 2015
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Lecture 17: tuesday march 25, 2014: various images of attraction and intimate relationships that reflect cultural ideas, tendency to think about attraction in classic, heterosexual, romantic love, romantic ideas + other cultural ways of being attracted. Industrial economic side people making money off love: findings about attraction, no unified theory or perspective on attraction, physical proximity (propinquity) plays a large role in attraction and relationship formation. Among married couples randomly assigned to an apartment those who were 25ft from each other became friends faster than those who were. 88ft from each other: we like those who are physically attractive and are therefore more likely to make positive judgements on other aspects of the individual (halo effect) Intelligence: we like others who are similar to us. Basic needs can be satisfied in social or non-social ways. Ex self-esteem need can come from doing really well on an exam or getting a compliment from a friend/potential romantic pursuit: domain-specific evolutionary perspectives.
