PSC 51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Elaine Hatfield, Harry Harlow, Social Integration
Document Summary
Relationships & well-being: the need to belong (baumeister & leary, 1995) Social rejection & hurt feelings: the cyberball study (2003, results: brain activation parallels the pattern that occurs following pain (we genuinely feel pain when our feelings are hurt) The nature of intimacy: intimate relationships differ from casual ones, knowledge of each other, interdependent, caring, trust, responsiveness, mutuality, commitment. The need to belong: relationships: quality over quantity. Sources of change: economics, individualism, technology, sex ratio (high sex ratio=more men than women) The influence of experience: attachment styles, secure, anxious-ambivalent (preoccupied, avoidant (fearful, dismissing. The influence of individual differences: sex differences (referring to biological differences between men and women, gender differences (referring to gender roles, personality, self-esteem. The influence of human nature: evolutionary psychology, sexual selection, parental investment, paternity uncertainty, cultural influences determine whether evolved patterns of behavior are adaptive (cultural change occurs more quickly than evolutionary change)
