PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Interpersonal Attraction, Fusiform Face Area, Physical Attractiveness
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Psy220: chapter 7 - interpersonal attraction (lecture 7) Affiliation need: a need to associate with our fellow humans in a friendly, cooperative way we make distinctions: evaluating everything and everyone we encounter is a very basic human characteristic. Interpersonal attraction: a person"s attitude about another person. Internal determinants of attraction: need to affiliate and basic role of affect. Psts posterior superior temporal sulci: we also automatically respond to facial cues such as smiles and frowns. Need for affiliation: the basic motive to seek and maintain interpersonal relationships. People differ in the strength of their need for affiliation and this is a relatively stable trait. There are explicit needs to affiliate which are captured on self-report questionnaires (asked about how much they want to affiliate) Students that score high on this tend to be sociable and affiliate with many people. Implicit needs to affiliate projective measures, ask respondents to tell stories in response to ambiguous pictures.
