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| people's tendency to seek and find partners who are roughly at their own level of physical attraction |
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| in-kind response to the behaviour of others |
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| A stable, calm and dependable kind of love that may include quiet intimacy, stability, shared attitudes/values/life experiences, and high levels of self-disclosure |
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| when the arousal caused by one stimulus is added to the arousal from a second stimulus and the combined arousal is erroneously attributed to the second stimulus |
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| An intense, exciting and all-consuming type of love, which includes constant thoughts about the person, powerful physical attraction, and intense communication |
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| the expectations that a person has about a relationship partner, based largely on the person's early experiences with his or her caregivers |
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| the notion that people tend to see their romantic partners as well as their relationships in highly idealized ways |
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| the theory that people's satisfaction in a relationship is determined by the costs and rewards of the relationship |
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| the expected outcome of a relationship, meaning the extent to which a person expects his or her relationship to be rewarding |
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| Comparison level for alternatives |
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| a calculation regarding the expected benefits and costs that a person could receive from having a relationship with various other partners |
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| the resources devoted to a relationship that cannot be retrieved |
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| the theory that relationship satisfaction depends on the ratio of costs and benefits for each partner in a relationship |
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| demand/withdraw interaction pattern |
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| a relatively common situation in which one partner is nagging, critical, and insistent about discussing the relationship problems while the other partner is withdrawn, silent and defensive |
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| negative attributional traps |
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| explaining a partner's behaviour in negative ways |
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