PSYC 334 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Unrequited Love, Social Rejection, Paracetamol

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

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Relational value: the degree to which others consider their relationships with us to be valuable, important, or close. Maximal inclusion: people seek our company & don"t want to have a party unless we can come. Active inclusion: they invite us to the party and are glad we can come. Ambivalent: neither accepting, nor rejecting, when they genuinely don"t care one way or another if we show up or not. Passive exclusion: when others ignore us and wish we were elsewhere. Active exclusion: when others go out of their way to avoid us altogether. Maximal exclusion: others order us to leave, avoiding us isn"t enough. Unrequited love when we are accepted and liked but not as much as we want to be. Focus on the perception that others value their relationships with us less than we want them to. When we find out others don"t want us around it doesn"t matter whether they dislike us a little or a lot.