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| 2146905416 | Need for Affiliation | The desire to establish and maintain many rewarding interpersonal relationship. | 0 | |
| 2146905417 | Embarrassment VS Stress in relation to affiliation | •Stress increases the desire to affiliate because being with others reduce the negative effect of the situation. • However, when facing embarrassment, being with others is more likely to increase the stress. | 1 | |
| 2146905418 | Who are we most likely to become attracted to? | - Proximity. - Exposure. - Physical attractiveness | 2 | |
| 2146905419 | physical proximity | nearness | 3 | |
| 2146905420 | The mere exposure effect | The more often we are exposed to a stimulus, the more we come to like that stimulus | 4 | |
| 2146905421 | Beauty an Objective Quality? | 1. The image of beauty is universal 2. Common features of attractive faces 3. The preference of babies | 5 | |
| 2146905422 | The image of beauty is universal | When people asked to rate faces, there is a high level of agreement for facial ratings across age, gender, and cultures. Those regarded as good-looking in one culture also tend to be judged as attractive by people from other culture. | 6 | |
| 2146905423 | Common features of attractive faces | Researchers have indentified physical features of the face that are reliably associated with judgments of attractiveness. | 7 | |
| 2146905424 | The Preference of Babies | Babies prefer faces which are considered attractive by adults. | 8 | |
| 2146905425 | Liking Others Who are Similar | • We tend to associate with others who are similar to ourselves. • We associate with others who share the same demographic characteristics. • Byrne (1971): We like people who we perceive as having similar attitudes to our own. | 9 | |
| 2146905426 | The Matching Hypothesis | People tend to become involved romantically with others who are similar in their physical attractiveness. | 10 | |
| 2146905427 | Heider (1958) | People prefer relationships that are psychologically balanced. • A state of balance exists when the relationship is characterized by reciprocity. | 11 | |
| 2146905428 | Reciprocity | A mutual exchange between what one gives and what one receives. | 12 | |
| 2146905429 | Does the hard-to-get effect exist? | - We prefer people who are moderately selective to those who are nonselective or too selective. - We are turned off by those who reject us (they are committed to someone else or have no interest in us). | 13 | |
| 2146905430 | Psychological reactance theory | The theory that people react against threats to their freedom by asserting themselves and perceiving the threatened freedom as more attractive. | 14 | |
| 2146905431 | Comparison Level (CL) | Average expected outcome in relationships. A person with a high level CL expects the relationship to be rewarding. A person with a low level CL does not. Relationships that meet and exceed the person's expectations are more satisfying. | 15 | |
| 2146905432 | Comparison Level for Alternatives (CLalt) | People expectations of what they would receive in an alternative situation. If reward elsewhere is believed to be higher, a person will be less committed to staying in a present relationship. | 16 | |
| 2146905433 | Investments | The investments that a person put in a relationship that cannot be recovered when the relationship ends (e.g., time, career sacrifices). Thus, you are more likely to stay. Investments in relationship increase commitment. | 17 | |
| 2146905434 | Equity Theory | A theory stating that people assess how fairly they have been treated according to two key factors: outcomes and inputs. | 18 | |
| 2146905435 | Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love | • Passion - Is the drive leading to romance and physical attraction. - It needs not to be just sexual passion; it includes longing for nurturance, affection, affiliation. • Intimacy - Feeling of closeness, warmth, understanding, connectedness, support, concern for other's welfare. • Commitment - Long-term intention to stay. | 19 | |
| 2146905436 | Romantic Love | intimacy + Passion | 20 | |
| 2146905437 | Fatuous love | passion + commitment | 21 | |
| 2146905438 | companionate love | intimacy+ commitment | 22 | |
| 2146905439 | Self-disclosure | A willingness to open up and share intimate facts and feelings. Contributes to companionate love | 23 | |
| 2146905440 | social penetration theory | Developing deeper intimacy with another person occurs through mutual self-disclosure. | 24 | |
| 2146905441 | To Whom do People Lie? | The increase in self-disclosure manifests itself in the fact that the more intimate people are, the less likely they are to lie to each other. | 25 | |
| 2146905442 | The Marital Trajectory | Satisfaction in marriage tends to decline. | 26 | |
| 2146905443 | Negative affect reciprocity | A 'tit-for-tat' exchange of expressions of negative feelings. | 27 | |
| 2146905444 | Demand/withdrawal interaction pattern: | women demand to discuss the problems, only to become frustrated when men withdraw from such discussions. | 28 | |
| 2146905445 | relationship-enhancing attributions | They see the partner's undesirable behaviours as caused by situational factors. And desirable behaviors as inherent | 29 | |
| 2146905446 | distress-maintaining attributions | which is the opposite attributions that happy couples make | 30 | |
| 2146905447 | Basic approaches to reducing the negative effects of conflict | -Increase rewarding behavior in other aspects of a relationship. -Try to understand the other's point of view. | 31 |
