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Interpersonal Attraction and Relationship: Outline

1. The document discusses interpersonal attraction and relationships, outlining how they develop through increasing intimacy and interdependence over time. 2. Key aspects of relationship development include self-disclosure, trust, sharing activities, and reciprocal liking, which can lead to romantic love. 3. Relationships may progress linearly through stages or develop chaotically, and can end due to unequal commitment, dissatisfaction, or high costs of breaking up. 4. In conclusion, interpersonal attraction is traditionally defined as a positive attitude toward another person, and relationships are influenced by growing intimacy, liking, love, and potential dissolution.

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Interpersonal Attraction and Relationship: Outline

1. The document discusses interpersonal attraction and relationships, outlining how they develop through increasing intimacy and interdependence over time. 2. Key aspects of relationship development include self-disclosure, trust, sharing activities, and reciprocal liking, which can lead to romantic love. 3. Relationships may progress linearly through stages or develop chaotically, and can end due to unequal commitment, dissatisfaction, or high costs of breaking up. 4. In conclusion, interpersonal attraction is traditionally defined as a positive attitude toward another person, and relationships are influenced by growing intimacy, liking, love, and potential dissolution.

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Outline

Interpersonal attraction and relationship


By khadizatul kubra

General goal
To inform

Specific goal
I want my audience to know about interpersonal attraction and relationship.

Introduction
1. Let’s start with a story of my friend. Fahad was looking forward to the new semester. In
his very first class he noticed a pretty girl seating in the front. He wanted to talk to her so the
next day he seat beside her. He started conversation asking her name. Her name is Shelly.
They talk to each other and discover they were from the same city and both were economic
major. They started study together and did well in the exam. Fahad take her for a movie in the
weekend and then shelly asked him for a party. They spent all day together and talked about
love, marriage, parents and their hope for future. By the end of the semester, Fahad and
Shelly were seeing each other two or three time a week.(Attention Getter)

2. The relationship between Fahad and Shelly was based on interpersonal attraction –a
positive attitude help by one person towards another person. However, the development of
their relationship involved increasing interdependence and increasing intimacy, or pair
relatedness.(listener relevance)

3. Through my research, I came to know that interpersonal attraction is basically, positive


attitude held by one person towards another person. To start a relationship we have to find
out who is available for date? Availability influenced by institutional structure and
individual’s personal characteristic. Three factors of availability is routine activities,
proximity, and familiarity. Another important issue of a relationship is desirability.
Desirability influenced by social norms, physical attractiveness and processes of
interpersonal exchange.(Speakers credibility and listener relevance)

4. Today, we will talk about several steps of interpersonal attractiveness and relationships
such as, growth of relationship, liking and loving and breaking up.(Thesis statement)

Body 1.
The first thing we will talk about is the growth of relationship.

Self discloser, trust and interdependence impact the growth of relationship.


A. Self discloser: it increases as relationship grows. It increases closeness. Through self
discloser a person express her personal self to others.

B. Trust: trust is the base of a relationship. When we trust someone we believe that that
person is both benevolent and honest.

C. Interdependence: in a relationship interdependence is important. It t evolves out of the


process of negotiation.

Now, that we all know about relationships and its growth. Let’s consider about other steps of
interpersonal attraction and relationship.(Transition)

Body 2.

A. Take a minute and think about, how relationships turn deep.(Listener relevance)
B .The determents of liking:

1. Similarity: a person finds some similarity in their partner As, attitudinal similarity. Studies
say that, opposite attracts is not always true.

2. Sharing activities: sharing activities increase liking, contributes developing relationship. A


study found that sharing of works or activities has a strong predictor of liking.

3. Reciprocal liking: reciprocal liking is very important for a relationship. It’s means, both
side liking. Whom we like they will also like us in return that is important.

C. Love and Loving:

1. Liking vs loving: liking is about whom we care. Loving is both attraction and care and it is
more instance.

2. Passionate love: A state of intense physiological arousal and intense longing for union with
another. Cognitive, behavioral, emotional are three components of passionate love.

3. Romantic love ideal: idealization, love at first sight, love conquers all are some important
belief .but in united state romantic love ideal is not always famous.

4. Love and love story: love stories are written about love by them people know about what
love should be like, it has characteristics, plots and theme.

Now we know how growth of relationship and liking and loving works in an interpersonal
relationship. Let’s focus on breaking up.(Transition)

Body 3
The last sage of a relationship is break up

There are two theory: 1.progress theory 2.choas theory


1. Progress or linear way: we meet, disclose, trust, disclose more, trust more, become
sexually intimate, become interdependent, fall in love and live happily ever after. Everything
happened in a liner way .this model underlines much of the work on relationship and
relationship stability/instability.

2. Chaos theory: Chaos theory suggests relationship do not develop in a steady liner
progression. Relationships may go up or down.

B. A relationship would not always go some way. Some relationship last long but some
doesn’t. Unequal outcomes and unequal commitments are two cause of breaking up.

C. Different commitment and dissolution:

Commitments are really important for a relationship. Low emotional attachment more likely
to break up .

D. Response of dissatisfaction:

The level of outcome a person experience and his or her commitment to the relationship are
the main influences on satisfaction.

E. cost of break up: break up cost 3 things,1. Marital 2. Symbolic

3. Affectual .

Conclusion:
1. As you can see, how a relationship grows, how important love and loving is and also how
break up happens, also how they affect interpretational attraction and relationship .(thesis
restatement and main point summary )
2. Thus, interpersonal attraction is traditionally defined in social psychology as a positive
attitude or evaluation regarding a particular person.(clincher)

From:International Encyclopedia of the social & behavioral science,2001

References:
1.https://www.google.com/relationship

2.https://www.google.com/applythelowofattraction.

3.https://www.google.com/interpersonalattractionandrelationship

4.Source: adapted from Levinger,1975. Bersched & Walster[Hatfeild],1978

5.https://scholar.google.com

6.soc101 course reader

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