Attraction and Intimacy

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Attraction and Intimacy

• Important factors in friendships and love
  relationships

2
Friendships

• Proximity
• Interaction
• Mere exposure
• Physical attractiveness
• Attractiveness and dating
• The matching phenomenon
• The physical-attractiveness stereotype
• Who is attractive?

3
Friendships

• Similarity versus complementarity
• Do birds of a feather flock together?
• Do opposites attract?
• Liking those who like us
• Attribution
• Self-esteem and attraction
• Gaining anothers esteem

4
Love

• Passionate love
• A theory of passionate love
• Gender differences
• Companionate love

5
Maintaining close relationships

• Attachment
• Equity
• Self-disclosure

6
Ending relationships

• Who divorces?
• The detachment process