Formation of relationship Flashcards
Rewards and punishments
Operant condition tells us we repeat things that give us positive feelings (rewards give us these feelings)
Attraction through association
We like people who are associated with pleasant events, relationships were positives outweigh negatives was more likely to succeed
Similarity
Similarity premieres liking, people sort people who are dissimilar and then pick from ones who are more similar.
Personality
Berschied and Reis to hardworking people are more attracted to each other. Caspi and Herbener found married couples with similar personalities were happier
Attitude
If they disagree there is attitude alignment when they modify their attitudes
Direct reinforcement evaluation
Strength Griffit and guay - preferred experimenter that had positively evaluated their performance
Aron psychological support
People who self reported high romantic love showed strong activity in the rewarding parts of the brain (rich in dopamine)
Cate
Found couples thought rewards were important
Hayes
Found we also gain satisfaction from giving rewards
Rosenbaum
Dissimilarity is more important than similarity
Similarity evaluation
Research only focuses on attitude and personality
Speak man found people often chose partners with similar levels of body fat
IDA cultural biases
Doesn’t account for cultural and gender differences
Lott found women focus more on the needs of others there for not universal
IDA evolutionary explanation
Aron- love at first sight was inherited by ancestors to speed up mating process
Mundane realism -
Most studies are lab but some are done on real life couples
Rewards need satisfaction theory
Byrne and Clore
