Sentences with phrase «preferences in romantic partners»

Love schemas, preferences in romantic partners, and reactions to commitment.

Not exact matches

They found that people high in the psychological attribute called attachment anxiety (a tendency to worry about the proximity and availability of a romantic partner) responded to memories of a relationship breakup with an increased preference for warm - temperature foods over cooler ones: soup over crackers.

In ongoing relationships, romantic partners are bound to have different sexual needs and preferences.

There is a big assumption in almost all of this research: that these preferences matter when people choose a romantic partner from many possible alternatives.

Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner?

Next, participants rated the likelihood that various celebrity couples (e.g., the Obamas) would break up in the next five years, and then indicated their own preferences for romantic partners to possess various stability - related traits, such as trustworthiness (stable) and spontaneous (unstable).

Longitudinal changes in emerging adults» attachment preferences for their mother, father, friends, and romantic partner.

Thus, we have a hard time imagining how a sex difference in an ideal partner preference has any functional consequences if it doesn't influence romantic evaluations.

There is typically no question of attraction between same - sex friends, (unless of course, one party is not forth - coming with their sexual preference) and so that diminishes some pressure in establishing a deep relationship that can be potentially threatening to a romantic partner.

Contextual Influences on Ideal Partner Preferences (Preferences as Dependent Variable): What information do people use to make judgments about how much they desire a particular quality in a romantic partner?

In order to test these hypotheses, men and women from the University of Hawaii, who varied in love schemas, were asked to indicate their preferences for potential romantic partners who varied in physical attractiveness, body type, and love schemaIn order to test these hypotheses, men and women from the University of Hawaii, who varied in love schemas, were asked to indicate their preferences for potential romantic partners who varied in physical attractiveness, body type, and love schemain love schemas, were asked to indicate their preferences for potential romantic partners who varied in physical attractiveness, body type, and love schemain physical attractiveness, body type, and love schemas.

The gender difference among youth has been consistently reported in studies in other cultures too, however, such differences are not with regard to desire or inclination for a relationship but with specific preferences in the partner, For example, Shulman and Scharf (2000) reported that Italian girls emphasized more attachment and care and showed higher level of affective intensity in romantic relationship than boys.