PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Light Skin, Parental Investment, Natural Selection
8 Apr 2016
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The need to belong= your desire to be included and cared for-usually from close friends/family. People need close, caring, intimate relationships marked by emotional depth. Evidence that we have the need to belong: people seek for new relationships after another has failed, people are eager to have close relationships, people feel a lot of negative emotions when relationships are going poorly. Social support: the help we get from others, makes our relationships beneficial: perceived social support: a psychological sense of support. Enhance your immune system: received social support: the actual receipt of support or helping behaviors from others. Support might not be considered helpful if it"s unwanted: social network: quality and quantity matters. You can really only know about 150 people. Cultural ideals of beauty vary drastically by region: bigger women in africa, light skin in india. Might cause use to exclude people who are different- similarity bias. Natural selection: survival of the fittest, pass genes to help one survive.
