HOD-1250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 232-241: Sexual Intercourse, Sexual Orientation, Social Desirability Bias

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Human and Organizational Development
• Course: HOD-1250
• Professor: Griffith Brian

Document Summary

Establishing a long-term primary intimate relationship has enormous positive consequences for the individual. Usually studied with questionnaires: rank importance of qualities, concern: Subjects may not be consciously aware of facts operative as select. May pick results based social desirability bias. Successive hurdles: various screens or filters are imposed that select some individuals for continued consideration while eliminating others: those who make first cut then further evaluated, some passive: without individual"s participation, some active: individual personal preferences at work. Repeated-exposure effect: the idea that we develop increasingly positive feelings toward any neutral or mildly positive stimulus after multiple contacts. More active elements of personal preference play a role. Matching hypothesis: we are likely to select someone whose attractiveness is similar to our own perhaps to avoid the possibility of rejection or the stress and tension that may result from a mismatch inequitable relationship. Often more satisfied if they rate themselves as matched.