HRPYC81 Assignment 4 FINAL REPORT (ANSWERS)- DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

Well-structured HRPYC81 Assignment 4 (ANSWERS)- DISTINCTION GUARANTEED. (DETAILED ANSWERS - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED!)... Research Project Romantic Relationships through dating apps Research Area General Psychology Number of Students Limited to 400 students Project Description What do people mean when they say they are in a “romantic” relationship? How does a “romantic” relationship differ from friendship? Both are close relationships. Is the former psychologically closer than the latter? When asked to name close relationships, people will point out friendships, romantic relationships, and family relationships. Close relationships have been defined by Berscheid et al. (2004) as the degree of interdependence and responsiveness between two people. More specifically, the degree of interdependence and responsiveness depends on how frequent, diverse, and strong the impacts of each other's thoughts, feelings, and behaviour are on the other (see Clark & Lemay, 2010). When considering what motivates individuals to seek romantic relationships, answers vary depending on whether one adopts a psychological or evolutionary perspective. From a psychological viewpoint, motivations are often tied to “influential interactions,” such as those found in interdependence theory and attachment theory, and relational outcomes like sexual fulfilment, relationship satisfaction, and personal benefits such as goal achievement, subjective well-being, and mental health (Braithwaite & Holt-Lunstad, 2017). In contrast, the evolutionary perspective highlights factors like mate selection, romantic attraction, assortative mating, jealousy, and mate poaching (Sutcliffe et al., 2012). The social contexts where people meet somebody with whom they might enter a romantic relationship vary. They might meet somebody at university, at work, in the gym, at a party or through colleagues, friends and family. The possibilities are endless. Technological advancements like social media and artificial intelligence have brought dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, Hinge and Be2 into the meeting space. These dating apps have changed the dating experience because online dating overcomes limited time and social and geographical boundaries, increasing the number of potential romantic and sexual partners available (Erevik et al., 2020). Thus, various questions arise about whether online dating differs from offline dating and what people think about online dating. In this research project, we will focus on different psychological concepts. For instance, we will explore the motives for online dating, identify the dominant selection criteria (e.g., status and beauty), look at the role of loneliness, and the possible stigmatisation of dating apps.