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PSY 100 The Individual and Society: Friendship and Love Relationships

This document summarizes key topics in relationships including attraction, friendship, love, and the challenges that can arise. It describes how familiarity, similarity, and physical attractiveness influence attraction. It discusses the benefits of friendship and differences between friendships of different genders. It also defines types of love, attachment styles, and explores gender differences in love relationships. Finally, it addresses dangers like anger, jealousy, dependence, abuse, and loneliness that can occur in close relationships.

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PSY 100 The Individual and Society: Friendship and Love Relationships

This document summarizes key topics in relationships including attraction, friendship, love, and the challenges that can arise. It describes how familiarity, similarity, and physical attractiveness influence attraction. It discusses the benefits of friendship and differences between friendships of different genders. It also defines types of love, attachment styles, and explores gender differences in love relationships. Finally, it addresses dangers like anger, jealousy, dependence, abuse, and loneliness that can occur in close relationships.

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PSY 100

The Individual and Society


Friendship and Love Relationships
Objectives
• Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:
– Describe the roles of familiarity, similarity, physical
attractiveness, and personality traits in attraction
– Discuss the benefits of friendship
– Describe gender differences in friendship
– Identify the distinguishing characteristics of romantic love,
affectionate love, and consummate love .
– Describe gender differences in love relationships
– Discuss factors associated with anger, jealousy,
dependency and domestic violence in relationships
– Identify circumstances that are typically associated with
loneliness
Overview
• Relationships
– Extremely positive
– Conflicted
– Having no relationships
• Loneliness
– Attraction
– Friendship
– Love
– The dark side of relationships
Forming Relationships: Attraction
• Familiarity and Similarity
– Necessary for close relationship
– Friends and lovers are like us
– Consensual validation
• Physical Attractiveness
– Female
– Male
– Standards change
– Matching hypothesis
Friendship
• Overview
– Intimacy
– Trust
– Acceptance
– Understanding
• Benefits of Friendships
– Reduce loneliness
– Raise self-esteem
– Emotional support
• Gender and Friendship
– Between women
– Between males
– Cross-gender
Love
• What is Love?
– Liking
– Being close
– Dependency
– Selfless orientation
– Absorption
– Exclusiveness
• Types of Love
– Romantic (passionate)
– Affectionate (companionate)
– Consummate
Love
• Attachment
– Attachment Styles
• Secure attachment
• Avoidant attachment
• Ambivalent attachment
– Links between attachment in childhood and close
relationships in adulthood
Love
• Gender and Love
– Men – passion
– Women – friendship
– Men and women – affection
– Gender differences in communicating
• Women more expressive
– Detecting deficiencies
• Falling Out of Love
– Someone who betrays your trust
– Being in love when the love is not returned
The Dark Side of Close Relationships
• Anger
– Powerful emotion
– Destructive
– Managing anger
• Jealousy
– Fear of losing someone
– What causes jealousy
– Managing jealousy
• Spouse and Partner Abuse
– Growing knowledge of domestic abuse
– Three-phase cycle of domestic violence
The Dark Side of Close Relationships
• Dependence
– Destructive element
– Perceived as a burden
• Loneliness
– Desire for company
– Linked to health problems
– Life’s transitions
– Technology
Summary
• Familiarity and similarity
• Physical attractiveness
• Friendships
• What is love?
• Types of love
• Attachment styles
• Anger
• Jealousy
• Spousal abuse
• Dependence
• Loneliness

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