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Oct. 2nd, 2003 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
confuseacatDoing more psych studying (this time on social influence):
"In long-term relationships, does idealizing our partner set us up for later disappointment? Actually, report Sandra Murray and her colleauges, positive illusions about partners tend to be prophetic. Those who idealize their dating partners as having many virtues and few faults tend to have more satisfying and longer-lasting relationships. Moreover, idealized perceptions tend to be self-fulfilling; people come to accept their partner's perceptions. Love is not blind, Murray concludes. Rather, it helps ccreate the reality it presumes."
"In long-term relationships, does idealizing our partner set us up for later disappointment? Actually, report Sandra Murray and her colleauges, positive illusions about partners tend to be prophetic. Those who idealize their dating partners as having many virtues and few faults tend to have more satisfying and longer-lasting relationships. Moreover, idealized perceptions tend to be self-fulfilling; people come to accept their partner's perceptions. Love is not blind, Murray concludes. Rather, it helps ccreate the reality it presumes."
