Dawn Mueller Information Selectivity People dont seem to mate randomly Women are more selective than men Attraction Situational factors We select from a pool of people whom we have met ID: 565499
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Dating and Relationships
Dawn MuellerSlide2
Information
Selectivity
People don’t seem to mate randomly.
Women are more selective than men.
Attraction
Situational factors
We select from a pool of people whom we have met.
Geography has ruled out 99.9% of the world’s population for you
Proximity provides opportunity and motivationSlide3
Factors
Physical Factors
Appearance influences attraction
Stronger than we think.
Men are more likely than women to acknowledge being influenced by appearance.
Psychological Factors
Important rules in maintaining a sustained interest:
Personality
Points of View
Beliefs, values, attitudes
Ambitions and abilities
Research suggests that people are attracted to those who are generally similar to them.Slide4
Types of Love
Type of love
Passionate Love
Experience
involving feelings of euphoria, intimacy and intense sexual
attraction
These types of relationships are usually short term
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This is what brings people together
Reaches it’s peak quickly and begins to diminish within just a few months.
Companionate Love
Experience involving affection, trust and concern for a partner’s well being
These types of relationships are usually long term.
This is what keeps people together
Takes time to get started, grows slowly and need never stop growing.Slide5
Social Exchange
Social Exchange
Hypothesis: people remain in relationships only as long as they perceive a favorable ratio of costs to benefits.
A relationship that provides an acceptable level of benefits at a reasonable cost will probably be maintained and one that doesn’t, won’t.
This hypothesis is true with three important caveats.
People compare their cost benefit ratios with those they believe they deserve or could attain in another relationship.
People want their cost benefit ratios to be high, but they also want them to be about the same as their partner’s.
After people have poured significant resources into their relationships, they are more willing to settle for less favorable cost to benefit ratios.Slide6
Fun Facts
Birds stay together to take care of their young
Traditionally marriage was for economic (unromantic) functions
Ancient Greeks and Romans considered love a form of madness
12
th
Century Europeans married but thought of love as a game to be played by knights and ladies of the court.
(Who happened to be married, but not to the knights)
17
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Century Westerners began seriously considering the possibility that love might actually be a reason to get married.
For every two couples in 2008, one got divorced.Slide7
Test
“Of Americans who married by age 40, 81% were men and 86% were women.”