PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thumb, Ethology, Social Cognition
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Self disclosure (open up to peers) verbal. A relationship that has extended of a period time and includes communication and trust. Knowledge: intimate partners have extensive personal information about each other (never discuss past relationships) Caring: intimate partners feel more affection for one another than they do for most others. Interdependence: intimate partners have strong, diverse, and enduring influence on each other. Mutuality: intimate partners think of themselves as a couple instead of as two entirely separate individuals. Trust: intimate partners expect treatment from one another that is fair, honorable, and responsive to their needs (attachment) (fair equal) Commitment: intimate partners expect their relationship to continue, and they work to realize that goal. The more intimate you are start to use plurals (inclusiveness) Need to belong very powerful drive to establish and make connections with others. Men used to have to be higher up not we even have same sex marriages.
