PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Storge, List Of Viz Comic Strips, Telephone Directory
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Need to belong: motivation to bond with others in relationships that provide ongoing, positive interactions. Robin gilmour (1988) men and women have completely different top ten lists of desired attributes. Women: achievement, leadership, job skill, earning potential, sense of humor, intellect, attentiveness, common sense, athleticism, abstract reasoning. Men: physical attractiveness, sexual ability, warmth/affection, social skill, homemaking, dress sense, sensitivity to others, good taste, moral perception, artistic creativity. Telephone directory names, most familiar names will correlate with most liked names and least familiar with least liked (harrison, 1967) Proximity: geographical nearness; functional distance predicts liking: segal 1974 study with police trainees. Similarity: contrast opposites attract, liking begets liking. We like those who like us (attribution) Constant approval can lose value over time; earning approval is better . Relationship rewards: reward theory of attraction: theory that we like those whose behavior is rewarding to us or whom we associate with rewarding events.
