PSY 3109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Rca Dimensia, Social Rejection, Orgasm
23 Feb 2020
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Story of phoebe who got bullied, suicide shows the lengths people will go to avoid social rejection and bullying. Basic need to feel liked and accepted, belonging. Need for affiliation/relatedness/belonging: pervasive drive to form and maintain lasting, positive interpersonal relationships . Everyone wants to feel accepted, infant preference for human faces. Humans are uniquely extremely social, pair bonding (oxytocin love/cuddle hormone in breastfeeding and orgasm -- helps people with social problems e. g. autism, makes normative people more trusting e. g. money study), want others in the relationship to like us. Easy to form relationships, hard to end them (individuals and groups) Shendon & gunz study manipulating people"s reported scores as low in xx and belonging, low in belonging made them follow up with answers to fulfill this need. Fulfill need for belonging with social snacking : seeking out symbolic reminders of our.
