Ch 14
Socioemotional Development in Early Adulthood
● Stability & Change from Childhood to Adulthood
○ Stability-change
● Temperament
○ Individual's behavioral style and characteristic emotional
Responses
■ Easy and difficult
Temperaments
■ Ability to control one's
Emotions
■ Inhibition
● Attachment
○ Secure attachment style: have a positive view of relationships and
find it easy to get close to others
○ Avoidant attachment style: are hesitant getting involved
○ Anxious attachment style: Demand closeness, are less trusting,
more emotional, jealous, and possessive
● Attraction
○ First impressions
○ Familiarity and similarity
■ People seek others who have similar attitudes, values, and lifestyles
● Consensual validation: our own attitudes and values are
supported when someone else’s are similar to ours
○ Physical attractiveness
■ Standards of what is attractive change over time and across cultures
■ Matching hypothesis: we choose partners who match our own level of
attractiveness
● The face of love
○ Intimacy
■ Self-disclosure and the sharing of private thoughts
■ Erikson-Intimacy vs isolation (6th stage)
● Intimacy is finding oneself while losing oneself in another person
● Failure to achieve intimacy results in social isolation
■ Intimacy and independence
● Balance between intimacy and commitment, and independence
and freedom
○ Friendship
■ Gender differences in friendships
■ Friendships between women and men
○ Romantic love: passionate love, or eros
■ Strong components of sexuality and infatuation
○ Affectionate love: companionate love
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