Resisting Temptation Revisited : Devaluation Versus Enhancement of An Attractive Suitor By Exclusive and Nonexclusive Daters  

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Shaffer, David R. ; Bazzini, Doris G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 25 no. 2 (1999), page 162-176.
Topik: TEMPTATION; attractive suitor; resisting temptation revisited
Fulltext: 162PSPB252.pdf (1.13MB)

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Individuals committed to exclusive relationships often evaluate attractive, opposite - sex targets less favorably than do less committed individuals. This devaluative distortion of alternatives has been interpreted as relationship maintenance by exclusive daters. Two experiments evaluated an alternative hypothesis : Less committed individuals may more favorably evaluate attractive, other - sex targets because they are seeking a relationship. In Experiment 1, exclusive and nonexclusive daters imagined a scenario in which an attractive stranger showed interest in the participant (high threat / high opportunity) or in his or her best friend (low threat / low opportunity). In Experiment 2, exclusive and nonexclusive daters anticipated interacting with an attractive target who was either available / seeking a relationship (high threat / high opportunity) or unavailable for a relationship (low threat / low opportunity). As predicted, nonexclusive daters evaluated available targets more favorably than unavailable ones, showing clear evidence of relationship - seeking motives. However, exclusive daters showed little evidence of devaluing available targets in the interest of relationship maintenance.

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