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Chapter 11,12 & 13Chapter 11,12 & 13Attraction and Intimacy: Liking Attraction and Intimacy: Liking

and Loving Othersand Loving OthersAltruism: Helping OthersAltruism: Helping Others

PeacemakingPeacemaking

Friendships

• Proximity– Interaction– Mere exposure

• Physical attractiveness– Attractiveness and dating– The matching phenomenon– The physical-attractiveness stereotype– Who is attractive?

Friendships

• Similarity versus complementarity– Do birds of a feather flock together?– Do opposites attract?

• Liking those who like us– Attribution– Self-esteem and attraction– Gaining another’s esteem

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Love

• Passionate love– Styles of love– A theory of passionate love– Variations in love

• Companionate love

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Maintaining close relationships

• Attachment

• Equity

• Self-disclosure

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Ending relationships

• Who divorces?

• The detachment process

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Chapter 12: AltruismWhy do we help?

• Social exchange– Helping as disguised self-interest– Empathy as a source of genuine altruism

• Social Norms– The reciprocity norm– The social-responsibility norm

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Why do we help?

• Evolutionary psychology– Kin protection– Reciprocity

• Comparing and evaluating theories of altruism

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When will we help?

• Situational influences: – Number of Bystanders

• Noticing

• Interpreting

• Assuming responsibility

– Helping when someone else does– Time Pressures

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Personal influences

• Feelings

• Personality Traits

• Religiosity

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Whom do we help?

• Gender

• Similarity

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How can we increase helping?

• Undoing the restraints on helping– Reduce ambiguity, increase responsibility

– Guilt and concern for self-image

• Socializing altruism– Teaching moral inclusion

– Modeling altruism

– Attributing helpful behavior to altruistic motives

– Learning about altruism

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Chapter 13: Conflict

• Social dilemmas– The prisoner’s dilemma– The tragedy of the commons– Resolving social dilemmas

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Conflict

• Competition

• Perceived injustice

• Misperception– Mirror-image perceptions– Shifting perceptions

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Peacemaking

• Contact

• Cooperation– Common external threats– Superordinate goals– Cooperative learning– Generalizing positive attitudes– Group and superordinate identities

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Peacemaking

• Communication– Bargaining– Mediation– Arbitration

• Conciliation– GRIT

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