PPE 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Oral Stage, David Buss, Physical Attractiveness

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

Document Summary

There are societal and cultural differences in the expression of love. 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.