PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Underweight, Angelina Jolie, Symmetry In Biology
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Show modern family ---> attraction can happen btwn all kinds of people, all kinds of relationships can work to meet needs of ind. involved. Characterizing relationships: self-selection : methodological problem of studying relationships. Aggression in young orphaned young elephants (killing rhinos!). Higher rates of mortality, psychological problems, crime for lonely people: good for cardiovascular, immune & endocrine systems. 2 weeks later, participants presented with new description similar to description of signi cant other more likely to use same traits to describe themselves as before. 2: *perceptual uency: more easily identi ed cognitive uency: easily interpreted, de ned, integrated into existing semantic memory. Couples ; strongest charc. = demographics, weakest charc. =personality: interracial/ethnic couples more similar personality beh. than homogeneous couples (maybe compensating?, newcomb study of transfer students living rent free: more similar students --> like, bogus stranger study: more sim. stranger to part. 1. interactions with similar people are pleasant bc they go smoothly.
