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Conflict
Transactional process between people who perceive incompatible goals, scarce resources, or interference in achieving their objectives
Key features of conflict
1. Conflict unfolds over time
2. Conflict is strongly shaped by perception
3. Conflicts are rooted in our perceptions regarding goals and resources
Kitchen-Sinking
Combatants throw accusations at each other that have little to do with the disagreement at hand
Symmetrical Relationships
Power is balanced within the relationship
Complementary Relationship
Power is unbalanced within the relationship
Power Currency
A resource that other people value that you posses
Type of Power Currency's
1. Resource Currency
2 Expertise Currency
3. Social Network Currency
4. Personal Currency
5. Intimacy Currency
Resource Currency
Material things such as money, property, and food
Expertise Currency
Comprises of special skills or knowledge
Social Network Currency
A person who is liked with a network of friends, family, and acquaintances with substantial influence
Personal Currency
Personal Characteristics such as physical beauty or intelligence that people prize as desirable in that particular culture
Intimacy Currency
When you share with someone else a close bond that no one else shares
Accommodation
One person abandons his or her own goals and acquiesces to the desires of the other person
Eros
Emphasizes physical attraction , passion sexual chemistry. Based on beauty
Ludas
Love is a game, enjoy doing things together, having fun, but don't get too serious.
Pragma
Practical Love, Seeks relationships that will work, Realistic expectations choose mate carefully
Agape
Biblical Love, Selfless, compassionate
Manic
Extreme highs and extreme lows. Obsession love, extreme jealousy
Components of love
1. Intimacy
2. Caring
3. Attachment
Intimacy
feeling of closeness and "union"
Caring
the concern you have for your partner's welfare and the desire to keep him or her happy
Attachment
longing to be in your partners presence
Passionate Love
A state of intense emotional and physical longing for union with another
5 facts about passionate love
1. Passionate love is driven by idealization
2. No gender or age differences exist in people's experiences of passionate love
3. People from all cultures feel passionate love
4. For Adults love is integrally linked with sexuality and sexual desire
5. Passionate love is negatively related to relationship duration
Companionate Love
An intense form of liking defined by emotional investment and deeply intertwined lives
Types of Love
Storge, Agape, Mania, Pragma, Ludus, and Eros
Romantic Relationship
A chosen interpersonal involvement forged through communication in which both participants perceive the bond as romantic
4 Key elements of Romantic Relationship
1. Perception
2. Choice
3. Diversity
4.Communication
Social Exchange Theory
Proposes that you'll feel drawn to those you see as offering substantial benefits (things you like and want) with few associated costs (things demanded of you in return)
Mere exposure effect
The more you're exposed to others the more likely you are to perceive them as attractive
Stages of Coming together
1.Initiating
2. experimenting
3.intensifying
4. integrating
5. bonding
Initiating (Stage of coming together)
size up the new person you just met. You draw information on them and look for similarities as well as determine if you find them attractive
Experimenting (Stage of coming together)
You exchange demographic information, consists of lots of small talk
Intensifying (Stage of coming together)
The depth of personal disclosure increases
Integrating (Stage of coming together)
You and your partners personalities become one
Bonding (Stage of coming together)
A public ritual that announces to that world that you and your partner have made a commitment to one another
Stages of Coming Apart
1. Differentiating
2. Circumscribing
3. Stagnating
4. Avoiding
5. Terminating
Differentiating (Stages of Coming Apart)
The beliefs, attitudes, and values that distinguish you from your partner come to dominate your thoughts and communication
Circumscribing (Stages of Coming Apart)
Respond to problematic differences by ignoring them or spending less time talking