PSY424H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Turbulence Modeling, Retributive Justice, Learned Helplessness
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Chapter 6: interdependency summary: we are interdependent, we rely on others. Interdependency theories assume we seek interactions with others that provide the highest benefit:cost, and we stay only with people who provide a sufficient profit. Both partners need to be benefitting from the relationship for it to continue: social exchange is the mutual exchange of desirable rewards with others. Interdependence theory is the most used of the social exchange theories: rewards are the gratifying experiences and commodities we obtain through our contact with others. Can be impersonal benefits (directions from strangers), personal intimacy benefits (love), etc: costs are punishing, undesirable experiences. First involves our expectations and the second involves our perceptions of how well we could manage without our partner. Interdependence theory assumes that we all have an idiosyncratic comparison level (cl) that describes the value of the outcomes that we believe we deserve in our dealings with others.
