Personal Development LAST QUARTER

• PROXIMITY - Considered to be the best predictor of liking and loving
• MERE EXPOSURE - Repeated exposure to an object or person will more likely lead to a positive feeling.
• SIMILARITY - *reciprocity-of-liking-effect
• PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS - Humans love staring at beautiful people and objects, also referred to as what is beautiful is good stereotype.
• PHYSIOLOGICAL SYNCHRONY - The synchrony during social interactions relates to social processes that lead to friendship
• CONTRAST EFFECT - Attractiveness of an individual is affected by a comparison standard, and it can be positive or negative depending on the standard that has been chosen.
• FRIENDSHIP - Connecting and interacting with friends would result in healthy or helpful thinking and behavioral patterns and overall positive outcomes for the individual.
• SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY - states that one interprets his/her own actions in the same way that one interprets others action
• ATTRACTION - Modern science has proven that love usually starts with physical attraction, romantic love - An intense state of longing for union with another person
• COMMITMENT - is when one promises a loved one that he/she will not look at another person the same way he/she does for him/her it means that keeping that promise despite temptations along the way.
• 3 COMPONENTS OF LOVE

  Intimacy

  Passion

  Commitment
• TYPES OF LOVE

  NON-LOVE – Absence of the three components,

  simply a casual interactions like

  that of acquaintances or with

  someone you are not particularly

  attracted with
• TYPES OF LOVE

  INFATUATED – Characterized by passion but

  there is no intimacy and

  commitment. Crushes fall under

  this category.
• TYPES OF LOVE

  FRIENDSHIP – This love exhibits intimacy but

  without intense feelings of passion

  or commitment but it can be a start

  for other forms of love to manifest.
• TYPES OF LOVE

  ROMANTIC/ PASSIONATE – A love that is defined passion and

  intimacy; chracterized by intense

  longing for union with another, and

  is type of love where one's love is

  reciprocated by another.
• TYPES OF LOVE

  COMPANIONATE – Characterized by intimacy and

  commitment without passion or

  desire. This is more on affectionate

  attachment rather than love.
• TYPES OF LOVE

  FATUOUS – Associated with "whirlwind

  romances" and "love at first sight." It

  is characterized by passion and

  commitment without intimacy.
• TYPES OF LOVE

  EMPTY LOVE – Defined by commitment but without passion and intimacy, this love is seen in arranged marriages or relationships
• TYPES OF LOVE

  CONSUMMATE – Considered as the most perfect or ideal love, where all components of love exist; most difficult love to attain and sustain