Relationships and Attraction Overview

These flashcards provide an overview of key concepts related to relationships and attraction, including human motivations and types of relationships.

Sociability

The tendency to seek out and engage with others, essential for forming social connections.

Need to Belong

A fundamental human motivation to form and maintain enduring, positive, and meaningful relationships.

Social Pain

The emotional suffering experienced due to ostracism or social exclusion, which activates the same neural mechanisms as physical pain.

Communal Relationships

Relationships characterized by mutual responsiveness to the needs of each other.

Exchange Relationships

Relationships based on equity and reciprocity, where each party gives and receives equally.

Attachment Styles

Patterns of expectations and interactions in relationships, categorized as secure, avoidant, and anxious-ambivalent.

Secure Attachment Style

An attachment style characterized by comfort with intimacy and interdependence, trust in partners, and ability to balance closeness with independence.

Avoidant Attachment Style

An attachment style marked by discomfort with intimacy, a strong emphasis on self-reliance, and a tendency to suppress emotional expression in relationships.

Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment Style

An attachment style characterized by a craving for intimacy combined with a fear of abandonment, often leading to excessive worry about a partner's love and responsiveness.