Lecture 9 - Relationships and Attraction Flashcards
1
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what relationships make better
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- overall life quality
- less disorder
- instrumental: more social opportunities
- men profit more
2
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men after breakup
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- recover slower than women
- higher suicidaility
3
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how do beautiful people benifit
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- are seen as having a better character
- more likely to get what they want
4
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drawbacks of beauty
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- seen as vein
- no bigger self-esteem
5
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most important on women
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waist to hip ration: .7 to .8
6
Q
men’s bodyweight preferences
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- depend on food scarcity
7
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what makes a face attractive
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- symetry
- prototypicality
- no abnormalities
8
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cognitive averaging theory
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- our facial beauty preferences are just a mere exposure effect
9
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baby face
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- always attractive in women, sometimes in men
- latter seen as more naive but get lower prison sentences
10
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dominance bias
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- only in men
- dominant but also colder
11
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matching phenomenon
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- we’re attracted to similarily attractive people
12
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complementarity in relationships
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- not causal, emerges later
13
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mirrored images
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- we like our mirror image more
- our friends our real image
- a mere exposure effect
14
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passionate love
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- intense longing
- touching
- physical arousal
- excitation transfer
- neccessary to fall in love
15
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Duffer and Aron
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Bridge experiment 1974
