CHAPTER 11
ATTRACTION AND INTIMACY: LIKING AND
LOVING OTHERS
What Leads to Friendship and Attraction?
Proximity
Interaction
Anticipation of Interaction
Mere Exposure
Physical Attractiveness
Attractiveness and Dating
The Matching Phenomenon
The Physical-Attractiveness Stereotype
Who Is Attractive?
Similarity Versus Complementarity
Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?
Do Opposites Attract?
Liking Those Who Like Us
Attribution
Relationship Rewards
What Is Love?
Passionate Love
A Theory of Passionate Love
Variations in Love: Culture and Gender
Companionate Love
What Enables Close Relationships?
Attachment
Attachment Styles
Equity
Long-Term Equity
Perceived Equity and Satisfaction
Self-Disclosure
How Do Relationships End?
Divorce
The Detachment Process