PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Belongingness, Shyness, Interpersonal Attraction
1 Feb 2017
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Once you have these relationships you try to keep them. Can only be satisfied with the frequent contact with people you know and you must care about them. Social camparison (we learn about ourselves when we compare ourselves with others) Helps us get a better sense of our abilities and values. If our need to affiliate is not met it tends to be because of. People (cid:449)ill feel like the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elo(cid:374)g or so(cid:272)ial depri(cid:448)atio(cid:374) The need to affiliate is a basic human motive but have individual differences (higher and lower needs to affiliate) some people need to have more friends than other to feel that they have fulfilled this need. If (cid:455)ou"re (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g e(cid:454)(cid:272)luded (cid:455)ou (cid:373)a(cid:455) e(cid:374)d up feeli(cid:374)g lo(cid:374)el(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause this (cid:374)eed is (cid:374)ot (cid:373)et. Loneliness is seen to be a negative feeling. Dispositional the individual is experiencing loneliness with or without the presence of close relationships; long term.
