PSYC 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Positive Feedback, Sad Movie, Pilot Experiment
14 Apr 2021
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Importance of anger: cognitive myopia focus on attitudes or actions that already happened that make us mad, feelings as information hard to distinguish whether anger in relationship is due to what partner said or did. Responses to relationship dissatisfaction (rusbult: positive responses, avoidance of issues: loyalty. In general, low se participants: overreacted, believed partner loved them less, derogated partner, reduced closeness. In general, high se participants: didn"t see threat as evidence of rejection, affirmed partners, consequences for relationship function, people with low se could respond poorly to threat and drive partner away, high, murray et al. (2003) diary study. In contrast, those more secure in partner"s affections drew closer to partner following conflict. Implicit theories of relationships (knee et al. , 2001: two constructs: belief in growth, belief in destiny. Immediate impulse to retaliate: need to transform to motivation to accommodate. Research assessing intimate partner violence: finkel et al. posited i-cubed theory that intimate partner violence is a function of:
