CFS 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Zero-Sum Game
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Sexuality and health: sexually transmitted infections, educating for sexual health: critical in influencing behaviors, inequality: poverty + racial inequality. Important elements of friendship: enjoyment, acceptance, trust, respect, mutual assistance, confiding, understanding, spontaneity. Friendship: modern context: emerge as people move to new situations, increased acceptance: opposite sex, internet, texting, other forms communication affect maintenance, can be superficial to an extent, example, mean girls quotes lol. Sternberg- 3 dimensions of love: commitment: cognitive attachment to another person, e. g. dating to marriage; sticking out hard times, intimacy: sharing feelings/providing emotional support, gradually increases; depends as relationships matures, passion: physiological arousal. Sternberg"s triangular theory of love: look at the diagram in textbook. Domain relevance: more jealous of the potential rival with qualities we value in ourselves. Jealousy: gender differences, men- partner is sexually involved, women- partner is emotionally involved, triggered by internal & external causes, > insecurity = > jealousy, signals the need to, talk about the relationship, explore ways to make it grow.
