PSY327H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: United States Academic Decathlon, Dating Abuse, Physical Attractiveness
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As a result, human relationships are not understood well. Philosophers and poets looked at relationships until the 20th century. The view that they had were only opinions, and many of them were wrong: as a result, the first efforts of behavioural scientists was to conduct empirical (experimental) observations of real relationships. Relationship sciences began in the 1930s with studies of: children"s friendships, courtships, marriages. Ellen berscheid and elaine hatfield began systematic studies of attraction and love that were fueled by an emphasis on laboratory experiments in social psychology. Researchers started studying specific influences on relationships that they were able to control and manipulate. Example of role of attitude similarity in liking": donn byrne and colleagues asked people to inspect an attitude survey that was completed by a stranger in another room. Then they asked the participants how much they like the stranger.
