Exam 9: Attraction and Close Relationships

Who first noted variability in people's taste by providing evidence that different cultures enhance beauty in very different ways?

Consider Buss's (1989) study in which he examined what people from 37 different cultures around the world prefer in a romantic partner. Which of the following statements about the results of this study is accurate ?

Lindsay is a freshman at college and has her first serious boyfriend there. Her parents can't stand him. According to the theory of psychological reactance, what should her parents do to discourage the relationship?

What is not a reason for why we seem to be attracted to averaged faces?

Which of the following best reflects the benefits and cost of being attractive?

Brandon likes Brianna, but Brandon doesn't like Autumn. The relationship among these three individuals would be balanced if

Using MRI, Tsukiura and Capeza (2011) found biological evidence for the

According to Murstein, physical appearance sparkles attraction during the _____ stage.

Though they had all been together on the transcontinental flight for three hours, the passengers didn't start to talk to one another until the plane ran into some serious turbulence. This behavior is best explained by the

Compare and contrast passionate and companionate love.

Two groups of college students are on a boat together travelling from Greece to Italy. For the first six hours of the trip, the students did not associate with each other. When the ship hits a severe storm and the captain orders everyone to take precautions, the students begin to talk to each other and bond. This is most consistent with the proposal of

Alexis promised her boyfriend Marcus that she would pick up his shirts from the drycleaners, but she neglected to do so because she was distracted by work obligations. When he gets home and sees that he has no clean shirts, he thinks, "she really just doesn't care about my needs at all. I'm so sick of this." Marcus is using ____ attributions to explain why Alexis did not pick up his shirts.

Rita, a student, enjoys spending time with her friends and classmates. She can establish friendships very quickly and has a strong desire to maintain social contact with others. Rita has

Pinel and colleagues (2006) refer to "I-sharing" as an important form of similarity whereby individuals share

When Kulik and others (1994) gave people who were about to soak their hand in ice water a choice about who to wait with prior to the painful task, they found that the participants preferred to wait

Research on the affairs of our economic and social world has showed that _____ is a force to be reckoned with from childhood through adulthood.

Snyder and colleagues (1977) ran a study in which mixed-gender pairs had a phone conversation. Male participants were given either an attractive or unattractive photo of their conversation partner. Which of the following statements about the study findings is false ?

According to research by Moreland and Beach (1992), who will you be most attracted to?

One vital factor that influences a person's ability to cope with a divorce is the ____ of the relationship, or the extent to which the line between one's self and their partner becomes blurred so that "mine" and "yours" becomes the same thing.

In relationships, the mutual exchange between what we give and what we receive is called