PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Psych, Attachment In Adults, Physical Attractiveness
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Sternberg proposed that different combinations of passion, commitment, and intimacy make up different kinds of love. Passion: physical attraction and drive for sexual expression; motivational component. Commitment: beliefs concerning why you love someone and want to stay with that person; cognitive component. Intimacy: feelings of closeness or bondedness; emotional component. Some researchers propose that love evolved as a commitment device. Strong feelings motivate people to stay together. Different reproductive strategies are thought to yield gender differences in preferences. Both men and women want someone who is warm, loving, honest, trustworthy, and pleasant. Attachment theory is a framework for understanding how we think, feel, and behave when it comes to love and relationships. Parents promoted attachment > attachment security in adult life. Parents didn"t promote attachment > attachment insecurity in adult life. Two relatively orthogonal dimensions tap individual differences in adult attachment. Best to think in terms of dimensions rather than categories .
