Close Relationships ~ are those that are important, interdependent, & long lasting.
- They come in many forms. family, friends, work, romantic relationships.
- You will spend a lot of time & energy maintaining a relationship.
Internet Relationships
- Has became very popular for communicating and meeting people.
- It 's diminishing of face to face interactions.
Initial Encounters ~ 3 Factors
- Proximity ~ refers to geographic, residential, and other forms of spatial closeness.
- Familiarity ~ mere exposure effect or an increase in positive feelings toward a novel stimulus (person) based on frequent exposure to it.
- Physical Attractiveness ~ plays a major role in initial face to face encounters.
The Matching Hypothesis ~ proposes that people of similar levels of physical attractiveness gravitate toward eachother.
Parental Investment Theory ~ which maintains that a species mating patterens depend on what each sex has to invest - in the way of time, energy, and survival risk - to produce and nurture offspring.
Reciporcal Linking ~ refers to liking those who show that they like you.
Established Relationships
Realtionship Maintenance ~ involves the actions and activities used to sustain the desired quality of a realationship.
Interdependence or social exchange theory postulates that interpersonal realtionships are governed by perceptions of the rewards and costs exchanged in interactions.
Comparison Level ~ is a personal standard of what constitutes an acceptable balance of rewards and costs in a relationship. *** for alternatives, or one's estimation of the available outcomes from alternative realtionships.
Investments ~ or things that people contribute to a realtionship that they cant get back if the realationship ends.
Friendship
- They give you help in times of need, advice and consolation when needed.
Romantic Love
Sexual Orientation ~ refers to a person's preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individual's of the same gender, the other gender or either gender.
Heterosexism~ or the assumption that all individuals and realtionships are heterosexual.
Theories of Love
Intimacy ~ refers to warmth, closeness, and sharing in a relationship.
Passion ~ refers to the intense feelings ( both positive and negative ) experienced in love relationships, including sexual desire.
Commitment ~ involves the decision and intent to maintain a relationship in spite of the difficulties and costs that may arise.
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