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51 Cards in this Set
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Sternbergs Triangle Theory of Love |
Passion
Intimacy
Commitment
= Consummate |
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Passion |
romantic desires |
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Intimacy |
close bonding |
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Commitment |
committing to someone (effort) |
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Romantic Love |
passion+intimacy |
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Liking |
intimacy |
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companionate |
Intimacy+commitment |
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Empty Love |
commitment |
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Fatuous love |
passion+commitment |
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Infatuation |
passion |
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Types of love |
friendship sexual parental brotherly sibling maternal passionate romantic familial puppy |
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Desire: Sociosexual Orientation |
individual differences in tendency to prefer unrestricted/restricted sex |
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Unrestricted |
more likely to have had sex earlier, more partners, view opposite sex as friends or sexual partners, less committed |
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Homosexual and Bisexual Attration |
13% of men and 11% women had at least some sexual experience or attraction toward same sex |
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Physical appearance in desires |
early personal experiences are important for what one finds attractive |
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women |
waist to hip ratio of .7, shiny hair, large eyes, small nose, high voice, early 20s |
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Men |
broad jaw, medium nose, low voice |
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Gender differences |
women- want certain intelligence
Men- willing to have sex with female below intelligence level |
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Two-factor theory of love |
love consists of general arousal (factor 1) which is attributed to the presences of an attractive person and labeled as love (factor 2) |
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Excitation-transfer theory |
source of arousal can lead people to feel romantic attraction can be labeled as anger in other circumstances |
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Cultural norms |
sexual revolution in 1960s and 70s in Europe and N. America |
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Silwa of Egypt |
strong taboos against premarital sex |
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Mangaia |
children openly practice intercouse and everyone has has multiple sex partners before marriage |
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Japan |
first kiss around 20 |
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US |
first kiss at 13, 16 some sexual experience |
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sexure attachments |
marked by trust, continuing love and support |
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anxious attachment |
fear of abandonment and feeling that one's needs are not met |
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avoidance attachment |
defensive, jealously |
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being reminded of death |
makes one want to be near family and increases motivation to have children |
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Drug addiction vs. relationships |
Oxytocin increase in new relationships |
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Erotomania |
disorder involving fixed-but incorrect- belief that one is loved by another, which persists in the face of strong evidence to contrary |
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Secure-adults |
insightful, not self-enhancing, skilled at resolving relationship conflicts |
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anxious-adults |
emotional roller-coaster, self worth based on physical attractiveness, less willing to compromise, less supportive |
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avoidance - adults |
intimacy unpleasant, jealousy, uncomfortable with sharing, focus on differences |
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Relationships change us |
Newlyweds rate partner's personality traits more positively
we overestimate partner similarity
We experience attitude alignment |
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women prefer status |
more likely to seek mate in high social dominance
education level and income |
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men prefer |
reproductive resources
all men seek for women in early 20s
attractive women know about value and become highly selective |
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homosexual prefer |
tend to show mix
women-youthful partners, less emphasis on physical attractiveness and more inclination towards sexual fidelity |
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Tibet and Kashmir |
single women marries several men (sometimes related) |
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Indian |
powerful men marry up to hundreds of women |
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Pollygamy |
steep social hierarchy
rich environments, so one family accumulates wealth
Occasional families so poor face danger of starvation |
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Similarity/Attraction theory Bryne |
people are attracted to others who are similar rather then dissimilar |
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Misattribution of Arousal
Dutton and Aron |
when people make a mistake in assuming what is making them aroused |
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Primary styles of love |
Eros Ludus Storge |
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Secondary |
Mania Pragma Agope |
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Eros |
romantic |
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Ludus |
the player |
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Storge |
the best friend lover |
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Mania |
infatuation |
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pragma |
practical lover |
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Agape |
the selfless lover |
