Psychology 3724F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sexual Selection, Folk Psychology, Longitudinal Study

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3724F/G
• Professor: Lorne Campbell

Document Summary

Psych 3724 lecture 2 - the science of intimate relationships (chapter 1) Typically between 2 people, but not always. Polyamory - multiple people all committed with each other. People study the same thing from different fields. Evolutionary theory, attachment theory, interdependence theory, life history theory, etc . Publications from 1970 to 2010 - love and marriage. Publications from 1988 to 2010 - sexual or romantic relationships. Major scientific domains studying sexual relationships ordered from distal to proximal, and seminal publications. Scientists are increasingly working in an interdisciplinary fashion, which often means zipping up and down the distal-proximal causality dimension. For example, understanding the distal origins of the intimate relationship mind (evolutionary psychology) helps social psychologists develop models that can explain and predict relationship behaviour at the proximal level (and vice versa) Theories operate at different levels, answer different questions, and are often complementary rather than in conflict. Not as much communication as we should have between disciplines.