Reward / Need Satisfaction - The formation of romantic relationships
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- Formation of romantic relationships
- Byrne and Clore, 1970
- Reward / Need Satisfaction Theory
- We are attracted to people who we find satisfying or gratifying to be with
- We are motivated to seek rewarding stimuli and avoid punishing stimuli
- Reward / Need Satisfaction Theory
- Attraction through association
- We also like people who are associated with pleasant events
- In this way, a previously neutral stimulus (e.g. someone we had not previously met and therefore have no real feelings about can become positively valued because of their association with a pleasant event
- Byrne and Clore believed that the balance of positive and negative feelings was crucial in relationship formation
- Relationships where the positive feelings outweigh the negative feelings were more likely to develop and succeed
- Rewards and punishments
- Rewarding stimuli produce positive feelings in us
- Punishing stimuli produce negative feelings
- According to operant conditioning, we are likely to repeat any behavior that leads to a desirable outcome
- Byrne and Clore's theory suggests
- That we enter into relationships because the presence of some individuals is directly associated with reinforcement
- Byrne and Clore, 1970
- Evaluation
- Evidence for the importance of reward
- Formation of romantic relationships
- Byrne and Clore, 1970
- Reward / Need Satisfaction Theory
- We are attracted to people who we find satisfying or gratifying to be with
- We are motivated to seek rewarding stimuli and avoid punishing stimuli
- Reward / Need Satisfaction Theory
- Attraction through association
- We also like people who are associated with pleasant events
- In this way, a previously neutral stimulus (e.g. someone we had not previously met and therefore have no real feelings about can become positively valued because of their association with a pleasant event
- Byrne and Clore believed that the balance of positive and negative feelings was crucial in relationship formation
- Relationships where the positive feelings outweigh the negative feelings were more likely to develop and succeed
- Rewards and punishments
- Rewarding stimuli produce positive feelings in us
- Punishing stimuli produce negative feelings
- According to operant conditioning, we are likely to repeat any behavior that leads to a desirable outcome
- Byrne and Clore's theory suggests
- That we enter into relationships because the presence of some individuals is directly associated with reinforcement
- Byrne and Clore, 1970
- Support - Griffitt and Guay (1969)
- Participants were evaluated on a creative task by an experimenter and then asked to rate how much they liked the experimenter
- This rating was highest when the experimenter had positively evaluated the performance on the task
- Evidence for the importance of reward
- Participants were evaluated on a creative task by an experimenter and then asked to rate how much they liked the experimenter
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