PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Normative Social Influence, The Sequence, Conditionality
26 Nov 2018
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After basic survival skills, our most potent motive is to have meaningful connections with others, this keeps us alive. Loneliness (as in feeling alone and isolation) does not produce more stressful events, but it can lead to stressors turning into diseases. These are effective in the early stages of getting acquainted. Other than these, thibaut and kelley argued that we calculate someone"s value by comparing what we might get from them compared to other options. So attraction is about our comparison level for alternatives. But attraction, friendship and love is more than a reward theory of attraction. The 5 consistent factors that have a profound influence on our choice of friends and lovers are: proximity. We tend to like those who live close to us. This is because of ease and availability, but it also makes it likelier that we will have repeated exposure- and familiarity makes people more likeable.
