Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2013/Motivation and relationships

Do Opposites Attract
Hi again!

Thanks for commenting on my chapter. Your ideas look really great, hope you're going well with it! While I was doing some research I came across a really interesting article that I was going to use for my own chapter about sexual attraction. The study looked at how emotional expressions can effect attraction and found that men found women most attractive when the woman looked happy and least attractive if they showed pride. Women found men most attractive when they showed pride, and least attractive when they showed happiness. I thought it might be helpful under your section "do opposites attract" as this study seemed to suggest it does! I've added the link and reference below in case you wanted to use it. Also, I'm going to be adding a lot more content to my chapter tomorrow (Saturday) so I'd love it if you had any feedback on it once it's up!

Here's the article: Article: happy guys finish last

And the reference for that article:

Tracy, J. L., & Beall, A. T. (2011). Happy guys finish last: The impact of emotion expressions on sexual attraction. Emotion, 11(6), 1379-1387. doi:10.1037/a0022902

NatKat88 (discuss • contribs) 13:29, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Types of Relationships
Hey there,

I'm doing the topic in sexual motivation and had a few chapter topics in mine that I thought you should probably include in yours. They are monogamous and polyamorous relationships. I would suggest looking at these from the angle of what motivates people to engage in monogamous relationships and what motivates people to engage in polyamorous relationships. I'll probably keep some information about the sexual motivation behind monogamy in my chapter, but I think it's more suited to your topic. From the perspective of monogamous relationships I'd probably include socio-cultural reasons why people practice monogamy (eg. socially acceptable and expected in western cultures, security, jealousy) and why people engage in polyamorous relationships (there's a huge financial and social benefit in having multiple partners to raise a family; wealth and responsibility of children and the household is shared so it's more common in poorer countries, though in certain religions like islam and mormonism it is practiced too). Of course it's up to you, but I think it would be really interesting if you tackled it from that angle.

Also I think it is really important to include friendships as well. Friendships are an important type of relationship and can be much longer lasting than romantic relationships. Which brings me to Sternberg's Theory of Love. It looks at three components that make up love, and the type of love/relationships that can be created depending on the combination of these three factors. Friendship is a result of feeling intimacy towards a person (one of the components of love), but lacks passion and commitment (the other two factors). Anyway, I think it would be really interesting to include and you can relate it to other types of relationships too!

I'll be including a link to your topic on my page, hope that's ok!

NatKat88 (discuss • contribs) 04:53, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Comments
Good start so far Blerg26 (discuss • contribs) 02:24, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, i've done a bit of research..i'm just a little worried how I can frame it in a 'positive' self-help kind of way... U3049223 (discuss • contribs) 00:55, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Hey I was reading over the topics you're going to cover and they seem really interesting! I think another category you could cover could be to do with homosexuality and evolution. I think the evolutionary perspective fails to explain homosexual behaviour so maybe there are other factors you could discuss? I found this article which I think would be pretty helpful! Good luck :) The evolution of human homosexual behaviour Angela.Watt (discuss • contribs) 00:35, 13 October 2013 (UTC) Thanks angela! I'm actually going to steer clear of that and make a statement 'assuming' hetrosexual relationships only for this body of research. The reason i'm doing this is because it would open up the scope of my research too wide and there is someone else covering that topic, i will provide a link to their page. Thanks!

Hey Hey, found an article in Australian Journal of Psychology called 'Effect of facial stimuli exposure time on evaluation of facial attractiveness' thought might be useful for you, vol. 64 no. 3. Talks about whether length of time looking at a face increases or decreases attractiveness Blerg26 (discuss • contribs) 05:55, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

hey! only just saw your comment but you are more then welcome to link to my page. Florence21 (discuss • contribs)

Self-help perspective
Hi!, I saw in your comments you said you were trying to figure out how to make this topic into a self-help kind of way? Perhaps you could go into the other direction a little and talk about the benefits of 'moving on' as such, so maybe a sort of counselling perspective if that makes sense? e.g. when relationships don't work...what could be done to ease the process? Or talk about the benefits of putting yourself out there with things such as internet dating and looking outside the usual comfort zone to find love? if that makes any sense. Goodluck with your chapter! it looks like a really interesting topic! --U3068359 (discuss • contribs) 00:56, 27 October 2013 (UTC)u3068359