COM 310 Study Guide - Endorphins, Dry Cleaning, Oneword
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Com 310 study guide for exam # 1. A brief history the field of personal relationships evolved from research in several areas: There is a wide variety of idea exchange among the various fields . Interpersonal communication research started in the 1960s and 1970s. Things that were going on at the time civil rights movements were happening women"s" movements drug and sexuality experimentation . In this way, there was a quest for people to feel self-fulfilled and therefore wanted to study relationships. Hatfield, around this time, got a grant to study love. She was attacked for having such a silly subject of study. Now, we know better at around the same time, social psychologists were examining topics such as attraction, love, and social exchange. Much of the early research comes from other fields, such as psychology, which hit the ground running with this type of study.
