Humanities Homework Help

The Application Papers are your opportunity to practice applying social psychological theories and terms to explain behavior in non-academic contexts. For this paper, you need to choose one romantic relationship from a movie of your choice (note it should be a movie, not a television series or book).

You should choose one of the elements below from chapter 8 in your text. You should analyze the romantic relationship presented in the movie in terms of the theory/effect. How does the movie’s portrayal of romantic relationships differ from what the research shows about actual romantic relationships?

Your application paper should include your responses to these questions, the name of the movie, as well as necessary information to understand the relationship depicted. If it is easier, you can choose to provide answers to each question separately in an Q & A format. It should be within two single-spaced pages. Please upload your work (Please not a .pages file; I can’t read that).

Theories/Elements:

• Reward Theory of Attraction (p. 305)
• Passionate and Companionate Love (p. 329)
• Physical Attractiveness Stereotype (Beautiful is Good) (p. 310)
• Similarity vs. Complementarity (birds of a feather vs opposites attract) (p. 306)