PSYC 2600 Chapter 15: Personality Chapter 15.odt

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Elizabeth Nisbet

Document Summary

Everyday people choose to enter some situations and avoid other situations, situation selection can hing on personality dispositions and how we view ourselves. Social selections are decision points that direct us to choose one path and avoid another. Personality characteristics of others influence whether we select them as dates, friends, or marriage partners: our personality characteristics play role in kinds of situations we select. Personality characteristics desired in a marriage partner: buss et. Assortatitve mating for personality: the search for similar: complementary needs theory: postulates that people are attracted to those who have different personality dispositions than they have. Ex: people who are dominant might have a need to be in a relationship with someone they can control: attraction similarity theory: postulates that people are attracted to those who have similar personality characteristics. There is an overwhelming support for the attraction similarity theory and no support for the complementary needs theory.