CMN 120 Midterm: CMN 120 - Love, Lust and Marriage Video Notes and Interpersonal Attraction Video Notes
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Video: Love, Lust and Marriage
1) Love begins with an animal-like feeling called lust
- smell plays a big part of the animal
- male’s looks for females (in animals) .
2) Symmetrical human faces are rated as more attractive than non-symmetrical
faces. This attractiveness signals to humans’ reptilian brain that….
• Good looks usually require symmetry, how balanced their measurements
• Faces with the highest symmetry as one of the most attractive
• The symmetrical man has more sex in an earlier age
• Survival of the species so that our genes can carry on (healthy
looks, clear skin, bright eyes, etc.)
3) Why have males and females developed different mating strategies over time?
- based on their intimacy with parents (small, subtle movements and
chaoticness in ur household)
- as you get more older, you still have those same signals but more
sophisticated
- For men: survival of genes, evolution pushes men to have sex with as
many as possible
- For women: Looking for resources, help in raising family
4) Love has three stages:
1) Lust → beginning of real love, sexual craving, temporary/doesn’t last
2) Infatuation → focused on the person, think about them at least 85% of the day
(intrusive thinking)
3) Attachment → deep sense of calm; depending on each other & couple bonding
- Stay or Stray → lifelong monogamy is rare
5) Cheating on one’s partner is the triumph of nature over culture.
6) Men are more likely to cheat than women by a 2:1 ratio.
- women like to commit to one life-long partner for resourcefulness + help
with motherhood
- men like to have sex with multiple partners
7) Only 3% of mammals stay with the same partner throughout life (e.g., beavers,
some antelope, some humans).
8) The 4th year of marriage is a common time to divorce (4 years is the time it
takes to raise one child through infancy).
9)Every year, 3 million couples marry in America.
10) What does a marriage ceremony represent?
- marks the end of courtship (rules on how you mate) and the onset of
family life
- universal ritual
11) According to Gottman, four behaviors are predictive of divorce (which he
terms the four horsemen of the apocalypse): criticism , defensive, contempt,
and withdrawal 12) Fighting and anger are not predictive of divorce.
- Marriage ends with a wimper, loss of connection over time instead of
passion
Interpersonal Attraction Video
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