PS270 Lecture : Close Relationships.docx
Document Summary
Unhappy relationships: happy, life satisfaction, self regulation, better coping, unhappy/exclusion, depression, self defeating behaviour (substance abuse, risk taking behaviours, sense of meaninglessness. Initial attraction: proximity, correlational studies: studies show people marry others who are nearby, friendships in the police academy: had groups of police recruits who came to class, on the first day you didn"t know anyone and researcher would pay attention to where everyone sat and looked at friendship formation, turned out where you sit played a role in who you became friends with (became friends with people who sat close to you than someone who sat at the other side of the room, classic study: found people in residence became close to people on either side of them rather than people on other floors, not physical distance but also functional distance (how often people"s paths cross) matters, proximity matters because:
