Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Attachment In Adults, Shyness, Underweight

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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Chapter 9: friendship and love (lecture notes: the ingredients of close relationships. Initial encounters: some main factors that draw people together, proximity (spatial closeness) Friendships and love interests influenced by seating charts, apartment availability, etc. Mere exposure effect: more frequent exposure to a stimulus = more positive feelings: familiarity. Thinness: women believe that men desire thinner women than is actually the case. For both men & women the top 3: mutual attraction, dependability, emotional stability, physical attractiveness; health are rated important. For women: earning potential, status, ambitiousness are rated important, matching hypothesis: people of similar levels of physical attractiveness gravitate toward each other, however, men can sometimes trade" attractiveness for resources, evolutionary explanations, sociocultural explanations. Investigated whether women have evolved a preference for men who show parental investment. La cerra: attractiveness and parental investment: 1. Smiling and playing with a child: 3. With a child but not interacting: 4.