PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Social Rejection, Ostracism, Dukkha
16 May 2012
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The need to be with others is evolutionarily beneficial. Warren jonesd: 1989: no one wants to have no friends. Need to belong: the desire to form and maintain close, lasting relationships with some other individuals. This drives people to affiliate, commit and remain together, and it makes them reluctant to live alone: this is also why people are reluctant to end relationships. Aside: testosterone is better for finding mates than for maintaining stable families. Once men have families, their testosterone levels drop. The need to belong has 2 parts: people want some sort of regular social contacts. These can be positive or neutral: people want the stable framework of ongoing relationship in which the people share a mutual concern for each other. Having one without the other leads to a partial satisfaction. Some people want to make new friends constantly, but most think that having 4-6 close relationships is enough.
