PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Social Rejection, Physical Attractiveness, Homeostasis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Kery Kawakami

Document Summary

Feeling connected to others promotes an individual"s mental and physical health. Loneliness the feeling that one is deprived of human social connections: people who have few friends or lovers are likely to die at a younger age than those who are happily connected to others. Evidence of a fundamental need to belong: like hunger, the need to belong can be satisfied, belonging promotes mental and physical health, loneliness takes a toll on mental and physical health. Early humans who successfully formed close social bonds were more likely to survive and reproduce than were the loners, outcasts, and misanthropes. Friendships were a means for non-kin to cooperate in finding food, build shelters, and explore the environment. They also helped people avoid the costs of competition and aggression: motive to belong is universal. Innate need for closeness/social contact seen in babies: rejection hurts literally experience just like physical pain, reproductive success.