PSY424H1 Lecture Notes - Bc Partners, Motivated Reasoning
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The more commited you are, the more likely you will speak about yourself and your partner as a unit, instead of as individuals. Motivated reasoning turning faults into virtues. -- the more committed people are, the more likely that they will turn faults into virtues. -- people who are more committed are more likely to spin their relationship as being a better relationship. -- people who are more committed have a higher level of optimism about their relationship. -- the more people have unrealitic optimism, the more likely the your relationship will last longer, be better. People who were more committed, the more they looked at transgressions in a more benign less awful way. If the serveriy of the transgression is serious enough to jeopridize the relationship then they weren"t willing ot overlook the transgression and dismiss it. Process of accommodation willing to accommodate some of your parnters transgressions,