Minh Tam Hua

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Relationships
Minh Tam Hua Katlyn Doughty
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What's Your "Type"?
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Phases of Relationships
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The Awareness Stage
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• Involves people meeting and getting to know
  each other.  To be aware of someone is the same
  as being attracted to them. 

• Often one way,  for example, Joe likes Jill,
  but that does not mean that Jill likes Joe

• Includes physical attraction

• How each person presents him/herself to the
  other (flirting)

• Encompasses sex-typed tactics.  These are
  specific ways developed by one sex to attract the
  other

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• Men
• Drive fancy cars
• Dress nice
• Earn a lot of money
• Talk highly of themselves

• Women
• Wear make-up
• Fix hair
• Dress nice
• Wear revealing clothes
• Wear bikinis

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The Surface Contact Stage
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• Initiative Transfer, idea that the female
  makes the first move, and then the males take
  over
• Intentional cues by the female 
• Leaning forward
• Touching his arm
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• Certain timing that goes with physical
  contact, which is determined by both the male and
  the female. 

• Behavioral and Reinforcer Sampling, involves
  giving complements to each other, kindness,
  understanding, and being a good listener- uses a
  lot of non-verbal communication, such as body
  posture and tone of voice.

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The Reciprocity Stage
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• Connection, result of the building blocks of
  the other stages     

• Couple falls in love

• The concept of love is very difficult, if not
  impossible to define- consists of caring,
  concern, feelings of respect and affection. 

• Period of limerence-  feelings one has for
  their partner are almost obsessive

• Limerence fades, a true feeling of attachment
  will develop

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Works Cited
http//inside.bard.edu/academic/specialproj/darlin
g/transition/group23/stages.html