Buss- discovered males valued youth and physical attractiveness whereas females valued good earning potential and high occupational status. Daly and Wilson-90% same sex murders involve men at most intense competition age in relation to sexual rivalry
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Self-disclosure
Sprecher- discovered reciprocal condition dyads reported more liking, closeness, perceived similarity and enjoyment of interaction than the non-reciprocal condition
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Matching hypothesis
Murstein- discovered real life couples received higher ratings than a fake couples control group and how partners rated themselves was more similar than self-ratings for random couples
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Social demography
Clarke-discovered 50% of people living in Columbus, Ohio married people within walking distance of each other
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Similarity
Kerchoff- 94 couples to discover short-term couples valued similarity of attitudes whereas long-term couples only complementarity was predictive in closeness
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Complementarity
Rusbult- discovered an attitude alignment overtime within long-term couples, suggests complementarity is not an important factor in filter theory
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Social Exchange Theory
Sprecher- CLa strong predictor of commitment and benefits important predictor of satisfaction, CL important in predicting relationship outcome, alternative relationships compared more favourably costs is increased if not it is reduced
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Equity Theory
Utne- discovered married couples who considered their relationship equitable were more satisfied than those who saw their own over or under-benefiting
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Rusbult's Investment Model
Rusbult- discovered heterosexual college students considered investments into the relationship when deciding whether to end it or not
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Duck's model of relationship breakdown
Frazier- discovered relationship breakdown of undergraduates corresponded with Duck’s model
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Virtual relationships
Peter- discovered introverts were motivated into CMC to compensate for lack of social skills, increased motivation to make friends online leading to more self-disclosure and intimate virtual relationships, suggests self-disclosure important factor
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Virtual Relationships (Gating)
McKenna- found lonely and anxious people felt more able to express themselves in virtual relationships and percentage of lasting relationships for these people were higher than those formed offline
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Para-social relationships
Gabriel- discovered participants scoring low on self-esteem then scored much higher after writing an essay on favourite celebrity, participants incorporated celebrity’s characteristics thus boosting self-esteem
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Para-social relationships (attachment)
Schmid- discovered similar levels of PS attachment to Harry Potter in Germany and Mexico
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Sprecher- discovered reciprocal condition dyads reported more liking, closeness, perceived similarity and enjoyment of interaction than the non-reciprocal condition
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Self-disclosure
Card 3
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Murstein- discovered real life couples received higher ratings than a fake couples control group and how partners rated themselves was more similar than self-ratings for random couples
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Card 4
Front
Clarke-discovered 50% of people living in Columbus, Ohio married people within walking distance of each other
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Card 5
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Kerchoff- 94 couples to discover short-term couples valued similarity of attitudes whereas long-term couples only complementarity was predictive in closeness
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