Love and romantic attraction

11 important questions on Love and romantic attraction

What are the three attachment styles?

1. secure attachment style.
2. Anxious/ambivalent attachment style
3. avoidant attachment style

What is the secure attachment style?

marked by trust that the other person will continue to provide love and support. easily expressing affection toward their mothers and unconcernd about being abandoned.
people will stay in a relationship longer. 

What is the anxious/ambivalent sttachment style?

marked by fears of abandonment and the feelings that one's needs are not being met. Becoming visibly upset at any seperation from their mothers and preoccupied with posible abandonment. experience relationships like an emotional roller-coaster, with moer highs en lows.
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What is the avoidant attachment style?


attechments marked by defensive detachment from other.  are defensively detached from their mothers, spuring affection if their mother returned after a brief absence.Are uncomfortable with the level of sharing that tends to benefit long-term realtionships. in stressful situation they offer their partner less support.

What are the sex differences in jalousy?

1. men are more distressed by the sexual infidelity.
2. Women said they would be more upset by the emotional attachment.

What is the difference between women and men in sexual orientation?

1. Women are more looking for men with high status, and he must be cratieve because that would mean that he has good genes.
2. Men are more looking for physical atractive women, this may come to a biological inequity between the resources they provide for their offspring.

What happens when women gain more social status.

Women become more assertive.

What is the equity rule and the need-based rule?

1. equity: each person's benefits and costs in a social relationship should be matched to the benefits and costs of the other. you will get what you will give to the other.
2. need-based: each person in a social relationship provides benefits as the other needs them, without keeping accout of individual costs and benefits.

How are polyandry and polygyny linked to environmental factors?

1. The harsh conditions of life in the high Himalayans have made it difficult for a single man and woman to survive alone.
2. If they are only two their is less chance that their offspring will survive.
3. If they will get only girles the roles are turning, the girls will marry one man.
4. If a woman comes into a rich family she can be more sure that her childeren will survive.

What other factors influence whether dominance is attractive in men?

1, Women are more satisfied in the longer term with more feminine -> androgynous.
2. Men also need to be agreeable.

In what ways are homosexuals and heterosexuals similr and different in their choice in mates?

1. homosexual whomen preferences are more flexible than those of men. (similar).
2. Homosexual men are not specificaly intrested in social status but more in physicaly attractiveness. They are also intressted in younger men.

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