The long answer question will be based on Stafford and Canary’s (1991) 5 relational maintenance typology and the different types of relationships we have discussed over the course of the semester.
Intercultural Relationships • Be able to define and provide examples for intercultural, interethnic, and interracial couples.
Interracial- differences in biology ex black and white interethnic- Social classes, religion. Rich person marrying a poor person, catholic marrying a Jew intercultural- someone from Japan marrying someone from the US. History and language are different. Cultures. • What are some characteristics of interracial couples discussed in lecture?
Shorter courtship, get married quicker and lesser children also get divorced at higher rate
Relational Transgressions • How and why do men and women respond differently to sexual and emotional infidelity? (social evolution theory) Women believe that feelings will lead to sex and men believe having sex will give a women a reason to have feelings. • What is the double-shot hypothesis? Both are important, men think it has to do with feelings if a women has sex with another individual • What are the differences between jealousy, envy, and rivalry? • Know the emotions that are most central to jealousy. Men are more likely to diminish the fact they are jealous and bolster their self esteem • Know the differences in the ways that men and women respond to jealousy as discussed in lecture. • Be able to define and use examples for the different forms of deception (lies, equivocation, concealment, exaggeration, and understatement). • What percentage of our face-to-face communication is deceptive? 25 percent • What is the truth bias? the closer you are to someone the