Psychology 3724F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Caveat Emptor, Random Assignment, Attachment Theory

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

Document Summary

Experience of intimacy/ pairing can be gained in a close, emotionally connected relationship. Feelings of love ( love & in love with someone) Feelings of commitment (outcomes depends on someone else, interdependence: mutual goals (working together towards something) Short-term partner: dating partner? (sense of humor, intelligence) Similarities, differences, relaxing standards, similar between men and women, men are more relaxed with standards when sex presents: relationship initiation. voice pitch goes up, act weirdly, hard to watch the whole process, research about night flirting, conversation : relationship maintenance. Handling conflicts; growing together (different opinions, how to work things out, work to better / worse?: relationship dissolution. Psychology, sociology, anthropology, medical disciplines: descriptive and experimental. Evolutionary theory, attachment theory, interdependence theory, life history theory, etc Publications from 1970 to 2010: love and marriage s n o i t a c i l b u. Publications from 1988 to 2010: sexual or romantic relationships. Study about intimate relationships only started in the 20th century.