PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Online Dating Service, Surveymonkey, Inter-Rater Reliability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3102
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

Interdependence: mutual ability to affect each other"s outcomes: how often you see them, different in every relationship. Duration of contact: how long you see them for when you do see them. Diversity of interactions: for example: lecturing does not have diversity in the interactions it"s only teaching, romantic relationships can have many aspects: dates, intercourse, family gatherings, etc. Direction of influence (e. g. uni- vs. bi-directional: professor and student is more unidirectional from prof to student. Strength of influence: how much influence someone will have on your life. The close relationship is one of strong, frequent, and diverse interdependence that lasts over a considerable period of time . Desire, sexual desire and lust for partner. People didn"t study this for the longest time because they thought it was just common sense. Our current traits = by-product of evolution because of our need for intimate relationships. Our fitness was increased by developing need for intimacy.