Seminar in Social Psychology: Friendship and Attraction

This seminar explores friendship and attraction. We will primarily
focus on heterosexual friendship between men and women. The scope for
sexuality and romance in heterosexual opposite-sex friendship will be
explored as well as the possibility that men and women perceive
opposite-sex friendship differently from each other. The ramifications
of sex, romance, and incongruent perspectives will be addressed in
these relationships. Important relational topics such as intimacy and
competition will be explored. Other types of friendships will also be
considered (e.g., homosexual friendship and same-sex friendship). In
addition, methodological issues associated with investigating
friendship and attraction will be addressed.