PSYC 334 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Notes

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

Document Summary

Successful relationships entail the mutual exchange of desirable rewards with others. The outcome of an interaction is its net profit or loss. Adding up all the rewards and costs that result: Where the outcomes are have no relation to happiness levels. What we expect and feel we deserve in our dealings with others. The outcome we (think we) can get elsewhere. Our clalts are the lowest level of outcomes we will accept from our current partners. Clalt includes both the costs of leaving and the rewards offered by the others. Investments are the things we lose when a relationship ends. When outcomes exceed both cl and clalt, it"s a happy and stable relationship. When outcomes exceed clalt but fall below cl, it"s an unhappy but stable relationship. When outcomes exceed cl but fall below clalt, it"s a happy but unstable relationship. When outcomes fall below both cl and clalt, it"s an unhappy and unstable relationship.