PSY 2114 Chapter 12-13: psy2114 chpt 12 & 13

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Arne Stinchcombe

Document Summary

Chapter 12: being with others: forming relationships in young and middle. Friendships are:: predominantly based on feelings, grounded in reciprocity and choice, less emotionally intense than love relationships, and involve less sexual energy or contact! Love relationships: sternberg has suggested three basic components of love:, passion, an intense physiological desire for someone! 2: commitment, the willingness to stay with a person through good and bad times! Intimacy, the feeling that one can share all one"s thoughts and actions with another! Love through adulthood: passion is usually high at the beginning of a relationship, as it decreases, either intimacy increases or the relationship is likely to end, commitment develops as people take time and work at a relationship! Online dating: easier for shy people than in-person dating, but used by outgoing people too, attractiveness still the rst lter, self-described attributes become important in more deliberative decisions, not everyone is honest in their pro les!