PSYC 215 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 complete notes

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A lot of the studies made now a days reveal a lot of correlation but not cause and effect. The importance of relationships: we have a need to embedded in healthy relationships: arguments for the need to belong: from an evolutionary point of view, relationships help individuals and offspring survive. Friendship helps cooperative work and avoids competition and aggression. Some traits are universal like caregiving mom-child, siblings wrestling, flirting, affection on romantic partners, etc. If it"s a need, it has to be satiable. We constantly look for our needs to be met: evidence for the need to belong: when it is not met, people suffer. *study with monkeys and surrogate mothers proves this as monkeys preferred comfort over food. Animals also need contact with others to show them how to act. Relationships and the sense of self: relational self: how we see ourselves derived from our relationship with others.

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