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Psychology 137C: Psychology 137C: Intimate RelationshipsIntimate Relationships Week 2, Lecture 1: Week 2, Lecture 1:
Theories of Intimate Theories of Intimate Relationships– Part IRelationships– Part I
RemindersReminders:: Have you been watching the course
videos? Aren’t they awesome? They only get better!
The web site for the videos is: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ssc/lederman/
bradbury/bradbury.html#
You are responsible for everything discussed in the text, even if I never mention it in class.
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““Science is built up of Science is built up of facts, as a house is built facts, as a house is built of stones; but an of stones; but an accumulation of facts is accumulation of facts is no more a science than a no more a science than a heap of stones is a heap of stones is a house.”house.”
Henri Poincaré
French Mathematician
(1854-1912)
Wikipedia
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What is a theory?
A theory is an interconnected set of beliefs, knowledge, and assumptions that relate to understanding a phenomenon.
A theory is a map. Some maps are better than others, yes?
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What does a good theory do?
Organizes existing knowledge. Draws attention to important processes. Explains important phenomena in an
elegant, ‘parsimonious’ way. Identifies specific predictions and
hypotheses. Guides measurement decisions. Improves upon prior theory.
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What does a good theory of intimate relationships
do? Encompass the full range of possible
predictors.
Specify mechanisms of change.
Account for variability between couples and within couples over time.
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Evolutionary TheoryEvolutionary Theory
“Humans seek particular mates to solve specific adaptive problems that their ancestors confronted during the course of human evolution; human mate preferences and mate decisions are hypothesized to be strategic products of selection pressures operating during ancestral conditions” (Buss and Schmitt, 1993, p. 205)
David Buss
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Assumptions of the Theory
Natural selection vs. Sexual selection
Psychological mechanisms What they are, and what they are not.
The environment of evolutionary adaptedness
Theory of Parental Investment
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How This Theory Guides How This Theory Guides ResearchResearch
Predicting and explaining gender differences Sexual vs. emotional infidelity Mate preferences
Accounting for cross-cultural similarities
Is this all too obvious? The incredible stinky t-shirt studies
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Evaluating Evolutionary Perspectives
Links a wide range of variables.
Focuses more on gender differences that variability within genders.
Focuses more on mate selection than on how relationships change once they are formed.
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Attachment TheoryAttachment Theory
The nature of the bonds that we form with our primary caregivers in infancy shapes the relationships that we have throughout our lives.
John Bowlby
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Assumptions of Attachment Theory
Attachment as necessary for survival of the species Secure base Source of information
Mental modelsMary Ainsworth
The Strange Situation
Attachment Styles Secure, Avoidant, Anxious/Ambivalent
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Adult AttachmentAdult Attachment I find it relatively easy to get close to others and am
comfortable depending on them and having them depend on me. I don’t often worry about being abandoned or about someone getting close to me.
I am somewhat uncomfortable being close to others; I find it difficult to trust them completely, difficult to allow myself to depend on them. I am nervous when anyone gets too close, and often, love partners want me to be more intimate than I feel comfortable being.
I find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like. I often worry that my partner doesn’t really love me or won’t want to stay with me. I want to merge completely with another person, and this desire sometimes scares people away.
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How This Theory Guides How This Theory Guides ResearchResearch
Implications of different attachment models for adult behavior
Dimensions of attachment Anxiety Avoidance
Stability and change in attachment over time Sources of continuity Sources of change
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Evaluating Attachment Evaluating Attachment TheoryTheory
What CAN it explain? Where do our standards and
expectations for intimacy come from? Why do some people tend to have the
same relationships over and over again?
What does it leave out? Why are all of those secure people still
breaking up?