IB Psych Human Relations Studies

Felmlee

fatal attraction, male and female college students; interviews of qualities that attracted them & broke them up

Ahmad & Reid

Indo-Pakistani couples in Canada; correlational study; 3 questionnaires; more traditional=less communication and less marital satisfaction

Gottman

15 min (3 convos) with couples in distress; measured heart rate and body language; those displaying high autonomic activity were likely to break up

Wedekind

Women were attracted to smell of men with different MHC that suggests strong offspring

Fisher

react to seeing a loved one; love=a drug because it activates dopamine reward pathway

Buss

men want young fertile women (greater reproduction); women want money to provide for offspring

Li et al

($100) cultures pursue same thing

Moreland and Beach

4 women, college lecture

Kiesler and Baral

high IQ go for hot woman; low IQ go for mid woman

Bradbury and Fincham

couples, 15 min observations talked with partners individually to see what was a problem; asked what problem is and who’s to blame; people who showed distress maintaining strategies were less happy in relationships; negative attribution and poor communication leads to breakup

Markey and Markey

what you’re looking for in a partner is what you are

Clark and Hatfield

college campus, men are more likely to take women to apartment/bed

Ronay and von Hippel

testosterone higher with risky behavior which increases male’s chances of reproduction