PSYC 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Agreeableness
12 Mar 2018
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9:34 am: page 350 is the key to this chapter: know it and be able to get curtis through. "choose your own adventure story" for exam: the nature of conflict: what is it, interpersonal conflict = your goals are incompatible with someone else"s goals, important principles. No: all fights are conflicts, but not all conflicts are fights (you can have an amicable conflict, dialectics = simultaneous, opposing motivations. Example: dialectic within myself this morning - i didn"t want to get out of bed, but i knew curtis would be talking about important things. I should go to class: groundwork for "choosing your own adventure story" Personality: people high in neuroticism have more conflicts, people high in agreeableness have fewer. Attachment style: anxiety over abandonment makes conflict more threatening and more frequent. Stage of life: older couples have fewer conflicts than younger couples do. Similarity: the more similar partners are, the less conflict: negative correlation.
