SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Leila J. Rupp, Online Dating Service, Social Exchange Theory
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Decision to enter and remain in relationship driven by profit calculation. Catfish people who pretend to be younger or a different person on online dating/ People who are equitable treated, tend to be more content with themselves. Traditional research attraction or relationship as psychological phenomenon. Factors (usually within the person) result in psychological experience of attraction. Most studies assume that people are heterosexual. We assume that all people want to be married or date someone. Leila j. rupp (2013) loving women in the modern world: sex between manly women and another women is best, the children will be born to a biological male but the social male categorized. could be someone else. Big findings we tend to categorize people as heterosexual or homosexual but that doesn"t explain how people act, think, or feel. So he said that sexuality should be a continuum. Someone who might define him/herself as heterosexual now could have had homosexual thoughts or experiences before.