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| love style characterized by a focus on the well-being of the love object, with little regard for reciprocation; the love of parents for their children is agape love |
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| mate selection pattern whereby parents select the spouse of their offspring |
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| attachment theory of mate selection |
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| emphasizes the drive toward psychological intimacy and a social and emotional connection |
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| emotional feelings toward another that generate behaviors to promote the partner's well-being |
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| complementary-needs theory |
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| tendency to select mates whose needs are opposite and complementary to one's own needs |
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| the love between married people characterized by companionship calmness, comfort, and security. |
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| the cultural expectation to select a marriage partner within one's social group |
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| love style characterized by passion and romance |
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| evolutionary theory of love |
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| theory that individuals are motivated to emotionally bond with a partner to ensure a stable relationship for producing and rearing children |
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| theory that emphasizes that relations are formed and maintained between individuals offering the greatest rewards and least costs to each other |
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| the cultural expercation that one will marry outside the family group. |
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| identified by Gary Chapman and now part of American love culture, these are gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and physical touch |
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| tendency to select someone with similar characteristics. |
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| emotional feelings based on little actual exposure to the love object |
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| love style that views love as a game in which the love interest is one of several partners, is never seen too often, and is kept at an emotional distance |
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| an out-of-control love whereby the person "must have" the love object obsessive jealousy and controlling behavior are symptoms of manic love. |
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| the imbalance of the ratio of marriageable age men to marriageable age women |
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| open emotional and sexual involvement with three or more people |
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| love style that is logical and rational; the love partner is evaluated in terms of assets and liabilities |
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| role theory of mate selection |
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| emphasizes that a son or daughter models after the parent of the same sex by selecting a partner similar to the one that the parent selected as a mate. |
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| an intense love whereby the lower believers in love at first sight, only one true love, and love conquers all |
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| a love consisting of friendship that is calm and nonsexual |
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| expecting a close other's indulgence when one behaves inappropriately |
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| process whereby a person makes up an online identity and an entire social façade to trick a person into becoming involved in an emotional relationship |
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| questions that allow for a cone-word answer and do not elicit much information |
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| the process of exchanging information and feelings between two or more people |
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| one in which verbal and nonverbal behaviors match |
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| unconscious techniques that function to protect individuals from anxiety and minimize emotional hurt. |
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| shifting one's feelings, thoughts, or behaviors from the person who evokes them onto someone else |
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| the ability to emotionally experience and cognitively understand another person and his or her experiences. |
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| the simultaneous denial of and withdrawal from a problem |
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| the individual is dependent on virtual environments to the point of having a social phobia |
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| the "message about the message" using gestures, eye contact, body posture, tone, volume, and rapidity of speech |
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| questions that encourage answers that contain a great deal of information |
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| principle of least interest |
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| principle stating that the person who has the least interest in a relationship controls the relationship |
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| attributing one's own feelings, attitudes or desires to one's partner while avoiding recognition that these are one's own thoughts, feelings, and desires |
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| the cognitive justification for one's own behavior that unconsciously conceals one's true motives |
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| paraphrasing or restating what a person has said to indicate that the listener understands |
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| sending erotic text and photo images via a cell phone |
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| statements that focus on the feelings and thoughts of the communicator without making a judgement on others. |
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