Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Online Dating Service, Liposuction

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Kelly Barnes

Document Summary

Chapter 9: friendship & love: between 1997 and 2011, the number of cosmetic surgeries performed on americans increased by 73, in 2011 over 9 million cosmetic procedures were performed with liposuction and breast augmentations being the top two. Building online intimacy: 25% of online daters admitted to using deception, 86% said they felt others had misrepresented their physical appearance, the lower the online daters attractiveness, the more likely they were to lie about their physical descriptors. The nature & prevalence of loneliness loneliness occurs when a person has fewer interpersonal relationships than desired or when these relationships are not as satisfying as desired. Emotional loneliness stems from the absence of an intimate attachment gure. For a child this is typically a parent. For an adult this is a spouse or partner or a best friend. Social loneliness results from the lack of a friendship network. In college students it"s the quantity of friendship contacts that counts.