Psychology 2035A/B Lecture 4: Lecture Four on Interpersonal Attraction & Love

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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Part one: specific factors (text pages 274-280: in initial encounters, proximity, familiarity, physical attractiveness, when getting acquainted, reciprocal liking, similarity. The reinforcement-affect model: rewards lead to positive affect (feelings); punishments lead to, we"ll like people who reward us and dislike people who punish negative affect. us. But, that"s not all: we"ll like/dislike people even when they don"t cause our positive/negative feelings, they simply have to be present when we experience, (e. g. , hot rooms; bad news; unpleasant music) positive or negative affect! ***the important thing is that the ratio is the same, not necessarily the numbers: inequality exists when one person"s ratio (of rewards to costs) does not equal the other person"s ratio. What"s reasonable: different people can have different comparison levels: Ok: whether we leave the relationships depends on the. If there is an alternative that provides a better r/c ratio, then we will leave the current relationship;