PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Interpersonal Attraction, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Physical Attractiveness
22 Feb 2018
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Interpersonal attraction, close relationships, and love: internal factors. Positive affect leads to liking; negative affect leads to disliking) Positive and negative emotions may be separate dimensions, not opposite ends of one dimension. Novel stimuli trigger bis, familiar stimuli activate bas. We like familiar things, dislike unfamiliar things. Statistical results (pentony): irrelevant affective states induced by candidates, or. Significance : reliable/repeatable products being sold can influence our liking and thus our actions. Effect size is an important but separate issue. Need for affiliation (both a state and a trait) As a trait: one of murray"s social needs. Waiting for shock; misery loves miserable company. People waiting to be shocked chose to wait with other people waiting to be shocked rather than people waiting for something happy and good. Need for affiliation is so basic to humanity that when it is off, a person is not normal (most personality disorders involve either an unusually high or unusually low need for affiliation.
