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Attraction
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Intim
acy
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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Attraction
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What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?
• Physical attractiveness– Who is attractive?
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Attraction
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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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Attraction
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Measuring Love
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Attraction
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Intim
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Measuring Love
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Attraction
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Measuring Love
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Same-Sex Friendships
