PSYC 308 Lecture : Chapter 10 Relationships and Attraction.docx
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Self-selection: when investigators cannot assign participants to the conditions that are to be compared. Contributes to the increased likelihood of the replication of the individual"s genes. Long-term romantic bonds: evolved to facilitate reproduction and to raise human offspring. Parent offspring attachment: ensure that infants and children are protected and will survive until they can function independently. Friendship: evolved as a means for non-kin to cooperate and to avoid the costs and perils of competition and aggression. We satisfy our needs for friendship with a limited amount of close friends and once that need is satisfied, we no longer seek it in others. If need isn"t satisfied in existing relationships, people will seek to satisfy it in other relationships. Our relational self: beliefs, feelings and expectations about ourselves that derive from our relationships with significant others in our lives. Encountering people who remind us of significant others changes the way we think about ourselves in the current situation.
