FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Polyamory, Assortative Mating, Social Exchange Theory
4 Apr 2016
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Problems of jealousy, spending more ime with one partner. Diicult to give one person enough ime, let alone two people. Polyamory: unlike polygamy where one person has muliple marital partners, maintain simultaneous romanic ies, oten as a triad, demands open communicaion, negoiate boundaries, all partners treated as equal, generally associated with bisexuality/pansexuality o. Primary partners, then secondary partners or casual partners. Polyamorus couples experience high relaionship saisfacion and support: unafected by relaionship saisfacion with secondary partner(s) Marriage is associated with health beneits: decreased mortality o o o. Increased immune system funcioning (kiecolt-glaser & newton, 2001) Selecion hypothesis: healthier people tend to marry each other and unhealthy people have a harder ime inding and keeping a mate. Exchange theory and assortaive maing principle o o. Search for best possible match in exchange for the resources they have to ofer. Marriage does seem to provide health beneits above and beyond the selecion.
