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| the desire to establish and maintain many rewarding interpresonal relationships |
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| a feeling of deprivation about existing social relations |
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| (Zajonc) the phenomenon whereby the more often people are exposed to a stimulus, the more positively they evaluate that stimulus |
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| what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype |
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| the belief that physically attractive individuals also possess desirable personality traits |
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| the proposition that people are attracted to others who are similar in physical attractiveness |
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| a mutual exchange between what we give and receive (ex. liking those who like us) |
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| the tendency to prefer people who are highly selective in their social choices over those who are more readily available |
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| a close relationship between two adults involving emotional attachment, fulfillment of psychological needs, or interdependence |
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| a perspective that views people as motivated to maximize benefits and minimize costs in their relationships with others |
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| the theory that people are most satisfied with a relationship when the ratio between benefits and contributions is similar for both partners |
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| a relationship in which the participants expect and desire strict reciprocity in their interactions |
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| a relationship in which the participants expect and desire mutual responsiveness to each other's needs |
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| the way a person typically interacts with significant others; secure and insecure |
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| triangular theory of love |
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| (Sternberg) a theory proposing that love has three basic components - intimacy, passion and commitment - which can be combined to make eight subtypes |
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| romantic love characterized by high arousal, intense attraction, and fear of rejection |
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| a secure, trusting, stable partnership |
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| the process whereby arousal caused by one stimulus is added to arousal from a second stimulus and the combined arousal is attributed to the second stimulus (Zillmann) |
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| revelations about the self that a person makes to others |
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| one's sexual preference for members of the opposite, same, or both sexes |
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