Conflict (Ch.9)
This is a Win-Lose type of conflict strategy where you win, and they lose.
Competition
This is the difference between liking and loving.
Liking is general affection and respect.
Loving is a deep emotional commitment based on intimacy, caring, and attachment.
This is the type of friendship that accomplishes a task like fellow students or workplace friendships.
Agentic Friendships
This term applies to the stage of breakups or relationship termination when negative feelings fester and individuals stop having meaningful conversations.
Stagnation
This concept explains how people become attracted to each other because they are close to one another.
Proximity
Collaboration
This type of love focuses on how you see your partner as a friend
Companionate Love
Friends belonging to the LGTBQ community are this type of cross-category friendship
Cross-orientation Friendships
This is the difference between envy and jealousy.
Envy is wanting what someone else has.
Jealousy is worrying that someone will take what you have.
These are established guidelines one has in a platonic relationship often made to maintain said relationship.
Friendship Rules
Power Currency
The tendency for people to be attracted to others we perceive as similar.
Birds-of-a-feather effect
Volatility
Women perceive this type of infidelity worse than sexual infidelity. It involves spending time and being romantic with another partner that doesn't necessarily include physical intimacy.
Emotional Infidelity
This type of consent goes past affirmative consent and accounts for issues of power in which men and women are coerced into sexual situations they are not really into
Enthusiastic Consent
This type of relationship is when one person has power of another
Complementary Relationship
The 2nd stage of relationship building involves testing each other and learning more about your partner.
Experimenting
This type of cross-category friend shares a similar cultural background but a different racial background.
Interethnic Friendships
This technique involves someone purposefully uses online media to put themselves between a significant other and their partner.
Wedging
The act of making someone feel "crazy" by lying and deceiving someone about an action one is being accused of.
Gaslighting
This theory states people with medium levels of power exercise it the most.
Dyadic Power Theory
This theory states we are rational and evaluate relationships based on pros and cons.
Social Exchange Theory
These are the 3 largest threats to friendships.
Romantic attraction, Betrayal, and Geographic Distance
This type of domestic violence involves purposefully restricting one's ability to work, control one's finances, and make someone live off less than reasonable wages.
Economic Aggression
This type of tension explains often relationships are faced with contradicting wants such as autonomy versus connection, privacy versus openness, and novelty versus predictability.
Relational Dialectics