Chapter 11 Attraction

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Chapter 11 - Attraction

• Part 2 Apr 18

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Gender Difference in Friendships

• Gender diffs in same-sex friendships from
  childhood adulthood exist
• 1) in level of emotional expression
• How do men women interact differently?
• 2) differences in self-disclosure

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Cross-sex friendships

• Eventually gravitate to intimacy mean
• Issues of sexuality have to be negotiated to
  sustain the friendship
• Faulkner (2000)
• What of cross-sex friendships end due to
  problems w/sexual desires?
• More common among relatively new friendships
• Why?

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Attachment and Love

• Evolutionary approach
• Our adult relationships based partly on our
  experiences as infants with our caregivers
• Secure attachment 70 of infants
• Definition Examples?
• Avoidant attachment 20 of infants
• Definition Examples?
• Insecure attachment 10 of infants
• Definition Examples?

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Attachment Results

• What type of relationships are reported by
  securely attached individuals?
• Link to commitment satisfaction?
• Insecure attachments?
• Avoidant attachments?

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Divorce

• Around 50 U.S. marriages end in divorce. Varies
  by country
• More divorce in individualist cultures.
• Other predictors of divorce
• 1)
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• 3)
• 4)

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Femlee Fatal Attraction

• 30 of breakups are examples of fatal
  attractions
• How are these defined?
• What are the results?