PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Overchoice, Social Network
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Erikson: intimacy v. isolation: humans are social creatures, marriage and parenthood are only two of several paths to intimacy, love between friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. Hooking up and friends with benefits are becoming more common: social network and dating sites. Dating in iceland: there an app for that: iceland. Population of 320,000 (seems most people are related!) Iphone app: users bump phones and an alarm will go off if they"re closely related app of icenlanders (an incest prevention alarm) More together, fewer married: most emerging adults are postponing not abandoning marriage, college degree=more likely to marr than those without. Mental health: independence=improved self-esteem-but not for all, peak for onset of mental health disorders. If you can live to age 25 without a psychiatric disorder you are very unlikely to ever have one. If you have underlying genotype that may predict mental health disorder it is possible this time in life that interaction can occur so symptoms now exhibited.
