01:830:321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homicide, Equity Theory, Online Dating Service

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:321
• Professor: David Wilder

Document Summary

** final exam will have choice for last 10 questions clinical or legal ** Interpersonal attraction definitions: attraction (liking) = positive attitude toward another person. Love = liking + physiological arousal: romantic love = love + sexual attraction. Rewards from others give us direct pleasure and boost self-esteem. (see persuasion research -- conditioning as source of attitudes) Indebtedness obligation to repay; loss of freedom; admission of dependence: level of expectation, equity. Level of expectation (aronson & linder: method: subjects received a series of evaluations from another. Pattern was either (++), (--), (+-), or (-+) subjects evaluated the confederate: results: evaluation of confederate. Pattern of rewards matters more than absolute amount of rewards. [scale: 0-10, higher number means higher evaluation of confederate] Why: subjective reward = reward expectation, self-efficacy greatest in (- +) condition and lowest in (+-) condition. High rewards high expectations: reward value declines, while cost of no reward increases: you always hurt the ones you love .