Power of Love and Relationships Case

Power of Love and Relationships

Michelle Peterson

PSY301: Social Psychology

Instructor: Beverly Salzman

April 24, 2015

        Everyone in this world has been in some sort of love and many types of relationships! Love can be a beautiful thing or it can be a learning experience for some. I am going to be discussing three very important thing with you and love and relationships. The first is the attraction, what makes use attracted to or not attracted to a person? The next is the sense of belonging. And lastly the three types of love companionate, passionate and compassionate.

        What really does attract us to someone? Is it their inner or outer beauty?  Or is it their intelligence level that might attract us? Could it also be that we are around the person enough through work are living spaces? How about similarity, hard to get, and equity?  As a matter of fact all of these play a role of us being attracted to someone. Here is the five laws of attraction and how it works. This is according to the law of attraction website. “1. Beauty-Whilst it often takes time to discover attitudes, values and beliefs, physical attractiveness can be immediately apparent. It is essential that we have the right look that will target the audience and present us in the right manner to have the maximum impact on our first encounter. 2. Mental Attraction-Vital in any relationship is personality. Looks attract attention first, but it is the personality that delivers longevity in relationships. This is in part due to the significant role personality has on our emotions, the most memorable moments are the ones packed with emotion. 3. Proximity- We cannot attract if we can’t be seen, however we do need to be seen in the right places.  We build relationships through a feeling of security and a mutual understanding of each another’s desires. 5. Similarity-As evidence shows us: ‘Birds of a feather flock together’. Aligning a brand with its customers’ beliefs, attitudes and values will ensure the perfect position to use empathy and emotion in brand messaging. Similarity was rewarding because, “We assume that people with similar attitudes to ourselves will be like us and so we like them” (reciprocal liking)” (Attraction, 2015, para. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).  A persons looks is the biggest attraction that attracts us to them.

        We are more acceptable to befriending someone that has similar back grounds and likes as we do then someone that is from a different culture and has different believes. This is because it would be consider in territory and we sometimes do not like to go outside the box and friend someone that would not fit in our lifestyle. This also could be because their believe and our believe is two different worlds and might have a big collusion on what he or she believes in. another factor would be is that when we are used to seeing a certain type of person that if we befriended someone of another culture it would feel different like something is not right.