Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Carpool, Equity Theory, Robert Sternberg

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Sarah Stanton

Document Summary

When died the company of others, unpleasant feelings. Story about a man on a boat, solo trip across the atlantic ocean, very lonely. When asked what he would do it again he said no, he said that life without people had no meaning, and that he needed to be with something alive. A columbia university professor asked students to stay in a room for money, none could make it past the 8 day mark without human interaction. We"ll like dislike people even when they don"t cause our positive/negative affect (feelings). They simply have to be present when we experience positive/negative affect. It has nothing to do with the person, they just have to be associated with the negative effects. Social exchange theories relationships exist whenever people interact on a regular basis. According to all social exchange theories satisfaction with a relationship depends on rewards and costs. These rewards and costs can be expressed in a ratio (r/c)