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Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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Social Psychologyby David G. Myers 9th Edition

Attraction and Intimacy: Liking and Loving Others

CHAPTER 11

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Attraction and Intimacy

• Need to belong• Ostracism

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What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?

• Proximity– Interaction

– Mere exposure

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What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?

• Physical attractiveness– Attractiveness and

dating– The matching

phenomenon– The physical-

attractiveness stereotype

– Who is attractive?

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What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?

• Similarity versus complementarity– Do birds of a feather flock

together?

– Do opposites attract?

• Liking those who like us– Attribution

– Self-esteem and attraction

– Gaining another’s esteem

• Relationship Rewards– Reward theory of

attraction

– Liking by association

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What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?

• Physical attractiveness– Who is attractive?

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What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?

• Similarity versus complementarity– Do birds of a feather flock together?

– Do opposites attract?

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What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?

• Liking those who like us– Attribution– Self-esteem– Gaining another’s esteem

• Relationship rewards– Relationship theory of attraction

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What Is Love?

• Passionate love– A theory of passionate

love

– Two-factor theory of emotion

– Variations in love: Culture and gender

• Companionate love

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What Enables Close Relationships?

• Attachment styles• Equity

– Long-term equity

– Perceived equity and satisfaction

• Self-disclosure

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How Do Relationships End?

• Divorce• The detachment

process

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Supplemental Slides

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Body Self-Esteem

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Body Self-Esteem

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Measuring Love

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Measuring Love

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Measuring Love

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Same-Sex Friendships

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