PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hard Ball, Attribution Bias, Silent Treatment
31 May 2018
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PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
• Selection- people choose to enter some situations and avoid others
o Personality characteristics desired in a marriage partner
▪ Most favoured
• Mutual attraction and love
▪ Slightly less important
• Dependability
• Emotional stability
• Pleasing disposition
o Assortative mating for personality- the search for the similar
▪ Attraction similarity theory
• People are attracted to those with similar personalities
o Assortative mating
▪ People marry to people who are similar to
themselves
▪ Complimentary needs theory
• People are attached to those with different personalities
o Do people get the mates they want and are they happy
▪ People happy when partner is high in
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
• Emotional stability
• Openness
o Personality and the selective breakup of couples
▪ Violation of desire theory
• Breakups are ore oo he oe’s desires are iolated
o Shyness and the selection of risky situations
▪ Impacts selective entry into/avoidance of situations
o Other personality traits and the selection of situations
▪ High
• Empathy
o Volunteering
• Psychoticism
o Volatile, spontaneous situations
• Machiavellianism
o Face to face situations
• Extraversion
o Select more friends
• Agreeableness
o Selected more often by others as friends
• Sensation seeking
o Volunteer for unusual experiments
o Unprotected sex
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