Psychology 3724F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pair Bond, Attachment In Adults, Y Chromosome

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

Document Summary

Intimate relationships in context: key theories, concepts, and human nature. Human born as a blank slates vs sets of genetically determined dispositions and specialized instincts. Intimate relationships provide background to human evolution of sexual reproduction and child-rearing, intimate relationships essential to understand human nature. Social psychology of intimate relationships: 6 major developments. Flourishing program of research on the nature and process of interdependence in relationships. Strong emphasis on social cognition and emotions in relationship. 70s, most concentrated on interpersonal attraction, factors of attraction (similarity, proximity, physical attractiveness) Increasing interest in love, research towards development, maintenance, dissolution of dyadic (2) romantic relationships. Efforts to understand relationship communication in a fine-grained fashion. Nature & process of interdependence (behavioural, emotional, cognitive ties) 2. Minds of intimate relationships, studying social cognition and emotions, 3. New statistical and methodological tools (communication studies) 5. Attachment and bounding processes relation to adult relationships (developmental and social psych), 6.