Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thunderstorm, High High, Sexual Attraction

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

1960s, the dean of indiana university set off on an adventure from the east coast to ireland (51 days), he was very lonely at the end. I found loneliness excruciating, life without people has no meaning". Psychologist offered students at columbia 50$ a day to stay in a room alone by themselves without any contact with the outside world. Psychologist found that no one was able to stay longer than 8 days. Part 2: general theories of attraction: the reinforcement-affect model, rewards lead to positive affect (feelings); And punishments lead to negative affect (feelings: we"ll like people who reward us and dislike people who punish us. But that"s not all theory also states: we"ll like/dislike people even when they don"t cause our positive/negative feelings. They simply have to be present when we experience those positive/negative feelings. E. g. hot rooms, bad news, unpleasant music. Participants are brought into a lab waiting room, there"s a complete stranger there.