PSYCH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Helping Behavior, Actor, Personal Identity
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Androgynous: choosing to have the positive features of both femaleness and maleness (in the middle) Self-esteem positive characteristics: males: greater more maleness and androgynous, females: more for androgynous. Self-esteem negative characteristics: males: for undifferentiated, lowest female, females: for femaleness and undifferentiated. More androgynous females than males: social rewards greater for male characteristics than female characteristics. Lesbians: all females score higher as females. Commitment: willingness to engage in and remain in relationship: exiting: males have a greater tendency to go, voicing: female talk more about its quality, loyalty: females focus on strength of union, neglecting: males work less on relationship. Extra-marital relationships: males more able to enjoy sex without love, women focus on relationship. If partner"s affair was from love, more willing to accept justification for an affair. Romanticism and reality: males more idealistic about relationship, causing greater disillusionment from reality, females more grounded in life"s realities.
