Families Unit 3

Secure

________ → comfortable with emotional intimacy, trusting, committed, satisfied- remains calm when distressed & seeks support from others.

Market Experience Perspective

________: →: dating allows individuals to learn to relate to potential partners or to determine what qualities they eventually want in a life partner:

Limerence

________: →: a blissful emotional state experienced in romantic love that is caused by an increase in dopamine (pleasure) & norepinephrine (stress) → involves physiological arousal + interpreting the arousal as passion:

Polygyny

________: →: historically ________ is the preferred form of marriage in most societies:

Romantic Love

________: →: the obsessive idealization of the beloved & failure to see them as they truly are:

Evolutionary Psychology

mate selection preferences that ensure healthy offspring are passed down through natural selection

asymmetric dominance/decoy effect (kim kardashian is seen as more attractive when compared to kourtney and khloe

kim and kourtney look similar, but kim is slightly more attractive, making her chosen more often

Hourglass figure → waist is 60

70% of hips

small waist

not already pregnant/ a virgin

T shirt experiment → women asked to smell t shirts worn by men and pick ones that appealed to them

they always choose men with very different mhc

Misattribution of arousal → Capilano bridge study

1/2 men of men approached on scary bridge called woman to ask her on a date → misinterpreted physiological arousal (pain, fear, anxiety) for erotic attraction towards the woman

chaperoned social events

girls received gentlemen callers with mothers present

cons

time consuming, difficult to judge compatibility online, easy access to alternatives → more breakups

Secure → comfortable with emotional intimacy, trusting, committed, satisfied

remains calm when distressed & seeks support from others

Anxious/Ambivalent → clingy & possessive, partner is unable to provide desired levels of reassurance & intimacy

becomes anxious & fretful when distressed