The Psychology Experiment

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- All animals, including humans show the same behavior when attracted to the opposite sex.
- Males compete to get the best quality females to pass on their genes and females (in humans) look for males who can make her feel secure and provide well.
- Romantic love is a hormone-based motivation system which creates a deep craving to cause lovers to mate and reproduce, and are characterized by; o Obsession towards the his/her love (sweetheart) o Making the head spin and heart throb
- Hormone-based motivation system is created by a romantic biological cocktail and is composed of; o Adrenaline – makes palms sweats and mouth go dry when the sweetheart is around. o Adjustment of serotonin levels- speeds up the nervous system o Secretion of oxytocin – hormone released during touching and sex. It also deepens feelings of attachments. o Vasopressin – released during sex, promotes long-term commitment - Researchers argue that the extent to which people perceive another person as similar to themselves may be one of the explanations of attraction. o Couples tend to be similar in background, education, religion, nationality, race, personality, intelligence, etc. o People tend to assume that those who share similarities with them will like them
- Morry (2007) – attraction-similar model o Suggests that people tend to select their friends and partners based on the similarities with themselves o Argues that individuals have beliefs about relationships
- Reciprocity o Relationships are dependent on people’s perception of rewards and cost o People often view their own partners more positively than they view themselves and tend to find themselves influenced by them - Interaction, similarity, and liking, all tend to influence one another. Thus, if...

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...ngaged in conversation with the woman very quickly than those who received a low IQ score (self-esteem of IQ).
 Kenrick & Gutierres (1980)
- Social comparison experiment
- The control group was asked to rate the attractiveness of an average looking woman
- The experimental group was given the same task, but after they had watched Charlie’s Angels (TV program starring three very attractive women)
- Results; those who had seen Charlie’s Angels rated the average looking woman as less attractive than those who hadn’t seen the TV program.
 Festinger (1950)
- Based on his study of friendship patterns amongst uni students
- Those who spend more time with us (i.e live, study and work near/with us) are more likely to be friends or partners
 Zajonc et al (1971)
- Familiarity is more attractive than the unfamiliar
- More exposure to the other increases the sense of trust

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