PSYC 334 Lecture Notes - Public Health, Platonic Love, Habituation
9 Apr 2014
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Money can buy happiness if you spend it on others. But insecurely-attracted folks give presents more out of obligation and fear rather of abandonment. On your relationship if you don"t get what you want. Heteronormative: promotes male- female romance as the norm. Singlism: deficit identity - people are missing something if they are not in a relationship, and stigma. Couples are 2. 5 times more likely to break up around valentine"s day (to avoid stress) Romantic love has been documented in all human societies through-out all of time. In asian cultures, passionate love is a negative. Loves does not equate to marriage, mostly economic and political people use to marry for economic and social reasons, today marriage places significantly more vale on love. Sbu study- diverse ethnic/ racial/ cultural samples prove that there are similar precursors to initial attraction. Women more likely to admit being in love and loving deeper.
