PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Leonard Berkowitz, Jon D. Levenson, Gender Role
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Dr jekyll and mr hyde, notion that humans are a mixture of good and evil. Greek philosopher empedocles sees it as love and strife, freud sees it as sexality and death, more recently, theorists see it as cooperation, affiliation and social behaviour. Historical figure: konrad lorenz: argued that aggression is an innate drive like humnger. Three kinds of social motivation: attachment, affiliation and assertion: attachment: function is primarily that of protection and care for the immature infant, affiliation: described in research literature as warmth (coloq. Attachment and its separation from affiliation: attachment function is essentially protective. System keeps mother close by or ready to be summoned by crying, using mother as secure base: ainsworth observed mothers interacting with their babies. Emotions are reappraised so that emotions become amalgams of what started them and the social negotiations they have occasioned: 3) emotions create social relationships (smile is invitation to cooperative relationship; angry expression is a declaration of conflict).
