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SocPsych Attraction1
PSY2533 Attraction and Close relationships
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What purpose do relationships serve humans? | Fulfills need to belong, emotional connection, attention, information, and decreases stress |
| What is cognitive clarity? | When one gains information regarding a stressful event to help us cope with an impending threat |
| What is loneliness? | A feeling of deprivation about existing social relationships |
| What are the three facets of loneliness? | Intimate, relational, and collective |
| What is social loneliness? | Feelings of not belonging |
| What is emotional loneliness? | Feelings of lacking intimacy |
| What traits do women tend to be higher in? | Expressive traits (warmth, compassion, kindness) |
| What is the chemical of commitment? | Oxytocin |
| What is the lust hormone? | Testosterone |
| What does oxytocin do? | Reduce stress and anxiety as well as increase feelings of commitment to one partner. Increased by physical touch or arousal |
| What does testosterone do? | Fuels sexual desire in men and women |
| What does estrogen do? | Increases the boding effects and has a strong relationship with oxytocin |
| What is the monogamy molecule? | Vasopressin |
| What does vasopressin do? | Encourages monogamy and behaviors of protection and aggression for another |
| What is the hormone of companionship and familiarity? | Endorphins |
| What do endorphins do? | Associated with the stages of love after infatuation. Increases feelings of well-being and reduces anxiety, even from the mere presence of a lover |
| What does DHEA do? | Increases sex drive in women, may be precursor to pheremones |
| What does prolactin do? | Produces feeling of sexual satisfaction after orgasm |
| What hormones are relevant in relationships and attraction? | Oxytocin, testosterone, vasopressin, endorphins, DHEA, and prolactin |
| What neurotransmitters are relevant in relationships and attraction? | Dopamine, serotonin, phenylethylamine (PEA), and norepinephrine |
| What neurotransmitter is desire personified? | Dopamine |
| What does dopamine do? | Brings instant pleasure, but also promotes the anticipation of more pleasure |
| What is the calming neurotransmitter? | Serotonin |
| What does serotonin do? | Reduces stress and anxiety. Rises when someone falls in love, increased in early stages of relationship |
| What is the molecule of attraction? | Phenylethylamine (PEA) |
| What does Phenylethylamine (PEA) do? | Causes giddiness and excitement during initial “falling stage”. Lowers appetite and works as an antidepressant in both men and women. Also released during orgasm |
| What does dopamine do for testosterone? | Jump-starts the release of testosterone, fueling sexual desire and released again at orgasm |
| What does norepinephrine do? | Puts the body on alert in exciting or interesting situations (Fight or flight) |
| What is the Two-Year syndrome? | AKA the honeymoon stage, higher dopamine and serotonin, PEA and norepinephrine, more testosterone |
| What happens after the Lust/Falling stage? | Dopamine and serotonin levels equalize. PEA and norepinephrine decrease (tampering euphoria and obsession). Less dopamine triggers lower testosterone in men and women (reducing sexual desire). Oxytocin, vasopressin, and endorphins all increase |
| When do the most intense chemical rushes subside in a relationship? | After 3-6 months |
| What is Sternberg's triangular theory? | Different types of love are comprised of three elements: intimacy, passion, and commitment |
| What is the emotional component of Sternberg's triangular theory? | Intimacy, which involves liking and feelings of closeness |
| What is the motivational component of Sternberg's triangular theory? | Passion, which contains drives that trigger attraction, romance, and sexual desire |
| What is the cognitive component of Sternberg's triangular theory? | Commitment, which reflects the decision to make a long-term commitment to a loved partner |
| What are the Sternberg's relationships that are not really love? | Nonlove, infatuation, liking, and empty love |
| What is nonlove? | Intimacy, passion, and commitment are all absent. Casual superficial, uncommitted relationship between acquaintances |
| What is infatuation? | Intimacy is high, but passion and commitment are low. This occurs in friendships |
| What is liking? | Passion is strong, but intimacy and commitment are absent. This occurs when someone is aroused by someone they barely know |
| What is empty love? | Commitment is high but intimacy and passion are low |
| What are the Sternberg's relationships that are actually love? | Romantic, companionate, fatuous, and consummate love |
| What is romantic love? | Intimacy and passion are high but commitment is low. Combination of liking and infatuation. |
| What is companionate love? | Intimacy and commitment are high, though passion has died down. Long, happy relationship |
| What is fatuous love? | Passion and commitment are high, intimacy is low. Epitomized by whirlwind courtships - high investment in passion, but don’t know each other very well |
| What is consummate love? | Intimacy, passion, and commitment are all present to substantial degree. Often what people strive for but difficult to maintain over time. |
| What is an exchange relationship? | Immediate tit-for-tat repayment of benefits |
| What | |
| What type of love is low in intimacy, passion, and commitment? | Nonlove |
| What type of love is high in intimacy, but low in passion and commitment? | Liking |
| What type of love is high in passion, but low in intimacy and commitment? | Infatuation |
| What type of love is high in commitment but low in intimacy and passion? | Empty love |
| What type of love is high in intimacy and passion, but low in commitment? | Romantic love |
| What type of love is high in intimacy and commitment, but low in passion? | Companionate love |
| What type of love is high in passion and commitment, but low in intimacy? | Fatuous love |
| What type of love is high in intimacy, passion, and commitment? | Consummate love |
| What are the fundamentals of attraction? | Proximity, physical attraction, reciprocity, and similarity |
| What is the mere exposure effect? | Repeated contact with someone usually increases our liking for them |
| What can proximity do to long-term relationships? | Lead to putting partner on a pedestal or feeling a need to reintegrate |
| What kind of faces are thought as the most attractive? | Average, one's own race or mixed-race, baby face in women, masculine in men during ovulation, feminized otherwise |
| What makes up a desired partners desireability? | Physical attractiveness x probability of accepting one |
| What is mate value? | Overall attractiveness as a reproductive/romantic partner |
| Why is similarity attractive for partners? | Ego, ease, and simplicity |
| When do opposites attract? | In short-term relationships |
| When does playing hard to get work? | Only when one plays hard to get for everyone but a single person |
| When does jealousy work? | Jealousy works on women, as they are more likely to focus on self-improvement, while men are likely to leave |
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