social psychology

1. INTERPERSONAL
ATTRACTION
Friendship. Love. Relationship

2. INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION
• Interpersonal Attraction
 Describes the desire to approach another individual, to seek them out
for interaction

3. RESPONDING TO
OBSERVABLE FEATURES
• When we like-dislike-someone at first sight, it probably means that our
response is based on the something we observe about that person that may
or may not provide accurate information about him or her.

4. FACTORS DETERMINE
INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION
• Physical Attractiveness
• Proximity
• Familiarity
• Similarity
• Reciprocity

5. PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS
• Features that determine physical attractiveness
 Research reveals that generally there is a fairly high level of consensus
among people when evaluating the attractiveness of others
Average face
Symmetry
Hormone-makers

6. PROXIMITY
• Geographicaly nearness. Proximity (more precisely,”functional distance”)
Geographicaly nearness. Proximity (more precisely,”functional
distance”)
“powerfully predicts liking”

7. FAMILIARITY & SIMILARITY
• Familiarity : mere exposure effect
• Similarity: Similarity attraction effect

8. RESPONDING TO OBSERVABLE
FEATURES
RECIPROCITY: MUTUAL LIKING
• Reciprocal liking is a psychological term to describe.
• the phenomenon of people tending to better like those people who like them.
• It reflects the notion that people feel better about themselves knowing that they
are likable and enjoy the company of those who give them positive feelings.

9. CLOSE RELATIONSHIP:
FRIENDS AND ROMANTIC PARTNER
• Friendship and loneliness
• Romantic Relationship
• Premarital Sexuality

10. CLOSE RELATIONSHIP:
FRIENDS AND ROMANTIC PARTNER
At one extreme, initial feelings of attraction can blossom into a lifelong close
friendship or even into highly intimate romantic relationships such as marriage.

11. FRIENDSHIP AND LONELINESS
• Friendship
Beginning in childhood, most of us establish casual friendships with several others
of about the same age who share common interests, and also from a close
friendship with just one person.
• Loneliness
Most people place a high value on establishing relationships, but many have
difficulty in achieving that goal.
Loneliness is associated with negative emotions such as depression, anxiety,
unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and shyness.

12. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ROMANTIC
RELATIONSHIP AND CLOSE
RELATIONSHIPS.
Some aspects of romantic interaction differ from other relationships. That is, we
generally want to be with someone who knows us well enough to understand our best
and our worst characteristics.
Early in such a relationship, at least, two people are not committed to one another
and aren’t looking for self-validation. Rather, they are looking for acceptance and want
to like and to be liked, hoping most all for compliments and praise. In effect, people
go out to have fun, and they are on their best behavior.

13. What is Love ?

14. WHAT IS LOVE?
• Love is one of the most common themes in our songs, movies, and everyday lives.
• American adults revealed that almost three out of four say that they are currently “in
love”. What do they mean when they say that? One possibility is that a friendship
between a man and a woman is redefined as a loving relationship when the two
people begin to perceive themselves as potential sexual partners.

15. TRIANGULAR LOVE

16. PREMARITAL SEXUALITY
Despite centuries of religion and legal sanctions against premarital sex in
many parts of the world, dramatic changes in sexual attitudes and behavior have
occurred during the second half of the twentieth century.

17. MARITAL RELATIONSHIP
Marital sex, Parent Hood and General Satisfaction
• Before, during, and after the high point of the sexual revolution, marriage remained
the primary interpersonal goal of most young people.

18. RELATIONSHIP FAILURE
•When Dissatisfaction Leads to Dissolution