relationships
- Created by: Laurenkeep
- Created on: 05-01-15 13:13
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- relationships
- Economic theory
- Social exchange theory
- we aim to get more rewards tha costs, otherwise the relationship is pointless
- Equity theory
- FAIRNESS within the relationship
- we all want to get back what we put in therefore if we don't we believe that something isn't right
- By not receiving the same creates INEQUALITY
- we all want to get back what we put in therefore if we don't we believe that something isn't right
- FAIRNESS within the relationship
- Comparison levels
- you imagine a relationship to be a certain way, therefore compare your standard against all relationships
- these imaginations are mainly based on previous experiences and memories
- Comparison levels for alternatives
- the idea that getting into a new relationship with someone else that will produce more rewards than the existing relationship is producing
- you imagine a relationship to be a certain way, therefore compare your standard against all relationships
- Social exchange theory
- Reward and cost
- our rewards minus our costs equals our outcome
- we enter a relationship in order to gain rewards.
- If the relationship will produce us with profitable outcomes we will enter it
- It's a balance stand- we are always different depending on the rewards and needs
- When entering the relationship we have biological, emotional and social needs
- Investment model
- if a relationship is coming to an end we weigh up how much we have invested into it, which decides whether or not if its important
- DEFINITION: ANYTHING YOU PUT INTO THE RELATIONSHIP THAT WILL BE LOST IF YOU LEAVE
- if a relationship is coming to an end we weigh up how much we have invested into it, which decides whether or not if its important
- Economic theory
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