COLLAB 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emotional Intimacy, Sexualization, Sexting
1 Oct 2015
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Social exchange theory: view that a relationship"s development reflects the unfolding of social exchanges --- that is, the rewards and costs of maintaining the relationship, as opposed to those of ending it: more likely to end relationship if: When partners find little satisfaction in the affiliation. When barriers to leaving the relationship are low. If things are going well we are in a,b,c and when the relationship is not going. Self-disclosure- people can either put too much information out there initially or they can not put enough out there on the initial interaction. Factors that discourage continuation: negotiate evaluations, lack fairness, boredom. Conventional adultery: extramarital sex that is kept hidden from one"s spouse. Consensual adultery: extramarital sex that is engaged in openly, with the knowledge and consent of one"s spouse. Gender differences: men seeking sex (i. e. playmates, women seeking love (i. e. soulmates, no always the case but it is a pattern found.
