Unit 5: Chapter 11
Interpersonal attraction and rejection
By Mpilo MT
,Learning objectives
• Differentiate the two ingredients for belongingness, a
debate why the need to belong
• The variables that predict who will like whom
• Identify strategies for getting someone to like you an
explain how reciprocity has a powerful effect on likin
• Behavioural effects of rejection
• Analyse what makes people feel lonely and describe
conditions that lead to social rejection
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, Introduction
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• Corinne Hofmann’s story illustrates attraction, social acceptance and
rejection
• https://youtu.be/ue1kcSQCWKM
• Attraction: anything that draws two or more people together
• Making them want to be together and possibly form a lasting
relationship
• Social acceptance
• Other people have come to like you, respect you, approve of you,
and include you in their groups and relationships
• Rejection (i.e., social exclusion)
• Others exclude you, so that you are not able to form or keep a
social bond with them
Interpersonal attraction and rejection
By Mpilo MT
,Learning objectives
• Differentiate the two ingredients for belongingness, a
debate why the need to belong
• The variables that predict who will like whom
• Identify strategies for getting someone to like you an
explain how reciprocity has a powerful effect on likin
• Behavioural effects of rejection
• Analyse what makes people feel lonely and describe
conditions that lead to social rejection
Copyright © 2018 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved.
, Introduction
Copyright © 2018 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved.
• Corinne Hofmann’s story illustrates attraction, social acceptance and
rejection
• https://youtu.be/ue1kcSQCWKM
• Attraction: anything that draws two or more people together
• Making them want to be together and possibly form a lasting
relationship
• Social acceptance
• Other people have come to like you, respect you, approve of you,
and include you in their groups and relationships
• Rejection (i.e., social exclusion)
• Others exclude you, so that you are not able to form or keep a
social bond with them