PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ellen Page, Ostracism, Symmetry In Biology
16 Oct 2011
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Attraction and intimacy i: liking and loving others. Clip sex and the city charlotte dumps perfect guy because she still loves harry bald guy . Evolutionary theory harry is a lawyer (high social status and income), charlotte is young and attractive. Fundamental human need to belong to a group. Evolutionarily adaptive big group of people can hunt big animals, build shelter, increase chance of survival. Ostracism is painful because need to belong is so fundamental. Hard-wired brain processes social pain the same as physical pain. Clip 2 confederates leaving out a participant (in game, or conversation) shows actual physical upset (stress) because of it. Researchers use cyberball participant plays a computer game with two others, eventually they are completely excluded from the game. Physical pain alerts us to physical injury, leads us to attend to injury. Social pain alerts us to injury to social connections, leads us to restore social connections.
