PSY327H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intimate Relationship, Heart Failure, Donner Party
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Partners are interdependent (they depend on each other) They influence each other over time and across situations. Replicated across numerous countries and people of different ages. Study of undergraduates: people who scored in top. 10% had one thing in common good social. Seven most common problems in psychotherapy: troubled relationships: 31, depression: 28, self-image: 28, anxiety: 20, phobias, fears: 20, role performance, work: 18, loneliness: 17% Baby rhesus monkeys raised in isolation from others. We have a need to belong - like a need for food. Minimal group situations: people are willing to form meaningful group based on meaningless differences. We form friendships with people with whom we experienced shitty situations. Pets can help us meet our social needs. Owning them makes us happier, less depressed, less lonely. Thinking about them pushes away feelings of rejection. People are reluctant to admit relationships will end. Many rituals promote the maintenance of relatively weak social bonds.
