Socioemotional development in Early Adulthood

4. Attraction Familiarity and similarity People are more attracted to people with similar interests and backgrounds. Consenual validation Our own attitudes and behavior are supported and validated when someone else's attitudes and behavior are similar to our own. Physical attractiveness Facial symmetry Humans prefer faces that are symmetrical. Facial symmetry equals beauty. Matching hypothesis Although we prefer an attractive person in the abstract, in the real world we end up choosing someone who is close to our own level.

5. Love part 1 Intimacy versus isolation Erikson's stage of development for this age group. Believes that young adults are striving to find intimacy or will in turn become hermits. Friendships More friends at this stage than any other. For the most part friendship becomes more same-gendered. There are more cross-gender friendships in adulthood than in elementary childhood and adolescence however. 92% of women; 88% of men have a best friend.

10. Development Women Place high value on relationships Increasingly self-motivated More likely to engage in rapport talk. Rapport talk: language of converstion; it is a way of establishing connections and negotiating relatinships. Men Men have more stress trying to fit into roles. They are injured when they do non-traditional male roles, but are also hurt when they engage in stereotypical male roles. Reconsider beliefs in manhood, separate out valuable aspects of the male role, get ride of parts of masculine role that are destructive.