PSYC 362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Emotional Affair, Threesome, Alcoholism
13 Dec 2018
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Betrayal: violation of relational standard (implicit/ explicit) regarding physical/ emotional exclusivity. Physical infidelity: occurs along a continuum of physical involvement. Emotional infidelity: characterized by emotional intimacy, secrecy, or sexual chemistry. Couples define affair by their own relational standards. We use the subjective appraisal of betrayal to define the occurrence of an affair. Important to emphasize subjective definition and reaction to an affair (influenced by cultural differences, fam history, norms of peer group) Extradyadic sex (eds); extramarital sex (ems) or involvement (emi) Not talking about consensual non-monogamy (eg 3some) Lifetime occurrence in oldest cohort (laumann et al. , 1994) 2nd leading cause of divorce for women and 3rd leading cause for men (janus & Therapists report as 3rd most difficult issue to treat (whisman et al. , 1997: lack of loving feelings, alcoholism, extramarital affairs. 98-99% of marriages (us) expect exclusivity (warren, harvey & agner, 2012) 52% say there is an explicit agreement to be monogamous.
