Health Sciences 2711A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Married People, Impulsivity, Social Exchange Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

Document Summary

Long term study done by houston and colleagues examined the daily behaviours of 168 coupled over a 13=year period. In 2012 schoenfeld and colleagues examined the daily behaviours of these couples and how they expressed affection to each other in both words and deeds. Predicted that women would be more predisposed to be warm and nurturing and that men would suppress their loving emotions. Researchers also predicted that wives would be more likely to avoid being opening antagonistic to their husbands. The women should be more likely to engage in self-sacrifice: especially wives who were more in love with their husbands. Husbands should be more likely to express their love through initiating sex. Finding showed that love and sexual intimacy were more closely connected for the husband than for the wives. Husbands in love draw on a wide range of behaviours to show their love both by expressing their affection and by pursuing joint activities.