Relationships

Relationship notes.

 

 

Notes

Understand

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The evolutionary explanations for partner preferences

 

 

 

 

 

the relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour

 

 

 

Factors affecting attraction in romantic relationships

self-disclosure;

 

 

 

 

physical attractiveness, including the matching hypothesis; filter theory, including social demography, similarity in attitudes and complementarity.

 

 

 

 

including the matching hypothesis; filter theory, including social demography, similarity in attitudes and complementarity

 

 

 

Theories of romantic relationships:

social exchange theory,

 

Essays

 

 

equity theory

 

 

 

 

Rusbult’s investment model of commitment, satisfaction, comparison with alternatives and investment.

 

 

 

 

Duck’s phase model of relationship breakdown: intra-psychic, dyadic, social and grave dressing phases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virtual relationships in social media

self-disclosure in virtual relationships

 

 

 

 

effects of absence of gating on the nature of virtual relationships

 

 

 

Parasocial relationships

levels of parasocial relationships

 

CAS

 

 

the absorption addiction model

 

 

 

 

The attachment theory explanation.