PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unrequited Love, Girlfriend, Physical Attractiveness
20 Feb 2017
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Objectives: to understand why unrequited love occurs and what it can teach us about goal striving and to explore research on goal disengagement. Difficult when you have a specific interpersonal goal of making someone. Example: the bachelor experience) play a part. College students provided detailed narrative accounts of a powerful experience of unrequited love (95%) Definition: romantic passionate love that is felt by one person towards another who feels substantially less attraction toward the lover. Found majority had experience in both roles. Only wanted to use data from students who had had both experiences. Baumeister wrote a book on unrequited love (cid:498)breaking hearts(cid:499) Travis argues that it"s her comments about reproduction. Found 9(cid:887)% of students could provide a narrative (only (cid:887)% hadn"t had this. ^^made the participants their own controls personality or gender didn"t. 1) falling upward (someone more attractive in some way almost certain)
