01:830:321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Safe Sex, Casual Sex, Sexual Orientation
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We also like people who respond similarly to external events, even of dissimilar backgrounds. Attachment style: the way a person typically interacts with significant others. Interdependence between partners, each of whom has a meaningful influence on the other. Stimulus stage: attraction is sparked by external attributes such as physical. Value stage: attachment is based on similarity of values and beliefs. Role stage: commitment is based on the performance of such roles as husband appearance. and wife. Passionate love: romantic love characterized by high arousal, intense attraction, and fear of rejection. Companionate love: a secure, trusting, stable partnership. A heightened state of physiological arousal; and. The belief that this arousal was triggered by the beloved person. Sometimes can misattribute physiological arousal to romantic love. Results of love on a bridge (dutton & aron, 1974) When relationships last, companionate love appears to be what lasts