PSY 0818 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Physical Attractiveness, Personal Development
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Relationships as an unfolding of social exchanges. Development and maintenance of relationships involve both rewards and costs. Consider the following changing through time and experience: Personal growth, maturity, self-esteem, life stage and circumstances. Relationship preferences, readiness to have serious relationships. Sense of humor-being comfortable and can laugh with each other. Men tend to focus on sex and fun. Women tend to focus on communication and reciprocity. Female-female couples tend to be more cautious sexually. Stresses breadth of topic coverage over depth. References to the other person or yourself. When should intimate information be disclosed in the development of a relationship. Yes because if you want to spend the rest of your life together, you want that ability. If it"s something that someone else knows, it"s important in case they find out. If it"s something you only know, just do it gradually. Sometimes you expose too much too fast. Vulnerability-self-disclosure in a relationship meaning you are willing to be vulnerability.
