PPE 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Oral Stage, David Buss, Physical Attractiveness

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology In Personality
• Course: PPE 3003
• Professor: Heesacker Martin

Document Summary

If in a relationship, one bad thing has to be made up by multiple good things: buss & angleitner, 1989. Women highlighted earning ability in mates: are these differences due to gender role expectations. Psychoanalytic explanations for love: freud viewed love as arising from sexual instincts. Neoanalytic explanations for love: erickson, mature love develops during the stage of intimacy vs. isolation. Only those who have found their identity will be able to experience true intimacy: shavers 3 romantic styles. Secure lovers: securely attached in childhood, so secure lovers. Avoidant lovers: anxious and insecurely attached during childhood. Either avoid loving relationships, or bail out of loving relationships during times of trouble. Anxious-ambivalent lovers: when things get intimate and close they spaz out: these styles are modeled after childhodo attachments. The first partner you must love is yourself. No one knows the deepest things you need, except for you. People who realize their potential are those who can love best.