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| The desire to approach other people |
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| The theory that proposes that we evaluate our thoughts and actions by comparing them with those of others. |
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| The theory that proposes that we seek out and maintain those relationships in which the rewards exceed the costs. |
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| Physical Attractiveness Stereotype |
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| The belief that physically attractive individuals possess socially desirable personality traits and lead happier lives than less attractive persons. |
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| A person's attitudes toward his or her body. |
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| The proposition that people are attracted to others who are similiar to them in particular characterisitics. |
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| The unpleasant emotion people experience due to their concern interpersonal evaluation. |
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| Having a smaller or less satisfactory network of social and intimate relationships than one desires. |
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| Sharing that which is inmost with others. |
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| The strong emotional bond between an infant and a caregiver. |
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| An expectataion about social relationships characterized by trust, a lack of concern with being abandoned, and a feeling of being valued and well liked. |
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| Preoccupied attachment style |
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| An expectation about social relationships characterized by trust but combined with a feeling of being unworthy of others' love and a fear of abandonment. |
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| Dismissing-avoidant attachment style |
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| An expectation about social relationships characterized by low trust and avoidance of intimacy, combined with high self-esteem and compulsive self-reliance. |
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| Fearful-avoidant attachment style |
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| An expectation about social relationships characterized by low trust and avoidance of intimacy, combined with a feeling of being unworhty of others' love and a fear of rejection. |
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| The revealing of personal information about oneself to other people. |
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| Social penetration theory |
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| A theory that describes the development of close relationships in terms of increasing self-disclosure. |
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| A state of intense longing for union with another. |
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| Two-factor theory of emotions |
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| A theory that emotional experience is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive labeling of the cause of that arousal. |
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| A psychological process in which arousal caused by one stimulus is transferred and added to arousal elicited by a second stimulus. |
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| The affection we feel for those with whom or lives are deeply entwined. |
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| The theory that people are most satisfied in a relationship when the ratio between rewards and costs is similiar in both partners. |
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| The negative emotional reaction experienced when a relationship that is important to a person's self-concept is threatened by a real or an imagined rival. |
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| Any form of behavior that is inteneded to harm or injure some person, oneself, or an object. |
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| The intentional use of harmful behavior so that one can achieve some other goal. |
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| The intentional use of harmful behavior in which the goal is simply to cause injury or death to the victim. |
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| A form of aggressive manipulation involving attempt to harm another person without a face-to-face encounter (also known as relational aggression). |
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| The process of cognitiviely placing an outgroup into extrememly negative social category that excludes them from acceptable norms and values, thereby eliminating inhibitions against harming them. |
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| Frustration-aggression hypothesis |
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| The theory that frustration causes aggression |
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| The reduction in the aggressive drive following an aggressive act. |
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| Cognitive-neoassociationist model |
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| A theory of impulsive aggression that aversive events produce negative affect, which stimulates the inclination to aggress. |
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| A theory that social behavior is primarily learned by observing and imitating the action of others, and secondarily by being directly rewarded and punished for our actions. |
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| Guides for behavior and problem solving that are developed and stored in memory and are characterized by aggression. |
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| A belief system in which males are socialized to protect their reputation by resorting to violence. |
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| The combination of sexual material with abuse or degredation in a manner that appears to endorse, condone, or encourage such behavior. |
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| The false belief that, deep down, women enjoy forcible sex and find it sexually exciting. |
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| Forced sexual intercourse that occurs either on a date or between people who are acquainted or romantically involved (also known as date rape). |
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