Relationships Flashcards
What is Social Psychology?
All human interaction, looking at the need to affiliate, how we form relationships over time.
When is the need to affiliate the strongest?
During adolescence, 75% of our awake time spent in company.
Who found that the need to affiliate is strongest during adolescence?
Larson, 1982.
What did Schacher’s 1959 study find?
63% of high anxiety wanted company
33% of low anxiety wanted company
Shared experience = shared anxiety = bond
What increased during the recession?
Marriage rates
Why did Darwin claim we are social?
To preserve our genes.
Define altruism.
Our perceived closeness is more important than our genetic closeness.
What culture does the US have in comparison to countries such as China and Korea?
- US has an Individualist culture.
- China etc has a Collectivist culture.
Define Affiliation.
- Genereal drive to approach another human to seek out interaction.
Explain the Longlois and Roman 1990 study.
- The more faces combined into one (averaged together) the more attractive the faces become.
Explain Longlois and Roman’s findings.
- The more faces you average together the more imperfections are removed, so the more attractive a face becomes.
- Male faces are more typical.
Why is Symmetry more attractive?
- Brains are more able to process symmetrical information.
Why do faces become less symmetrical?
- As we get older our faces become less symmetrical.
What did the Cogan study of 1996 show about preferred body type?
- Larger women are preferred in less developed countries such as Ghana as a pose to the UK.
What did Cassidy say about preferred body type in 1991?
- Larger body types are valued throughout history.
What did Anderson say about preferred body type in 1992?
- Slim women are preferred where a reliable food supply is available (evolutionary perspective).
Who came up with the waist to hip ratio?
- Streeter and McBurney in 2003.
What was the waist to hip ratio?
- 0.7.
Explain the idea of the waist to hip ration.
- Ability to bear children.
What did Dion and Bershed’s 1974 study find about physical attractiveness?
- The more physically attractive you are the more more socially desirable you are.
What was the Landy and Sigall study of 1974?
- Grading female students work with a picture of them on the front.
- General pattern was that those who were more attractive scored higher than when marked anonymously and when compared to those considered unattractive or without a picture on the front.
What did Frieze find about attractiveness and salaries?
Attractive men and women gained higher salaries over time.
How did Feingold contradict Frieze in 1992?
- The attractiveness stereotype is not accurate - there is no relationship between attractiveness intelligence, dominance, self esteem and mental health.
What do attractive people generally tend to be?
- Less socially anxious, more socially skilled and less lonely.
- This is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
