Think about what attracts you to others and how you engage in your relationships based on your attachment style.

• Describe social anxiety and the need for affiliation. Address the relationship between affiliation and stress.
• Summarize the social difficulties associated with shyness and loneliness. Discuss factors that predict loneliness (e.g., age, transitions) and coping strategies that can be employed to deal with loneliness.
• Describe the role of familiarity in attraction, including issues of proximity and mere exposure effects. Give personal examples of each.
• Distinguish between objective and subjective perspectives on physical attractiveness using personal examples.
• Explain the influence of similarity on attractiveness, including the matching and complementarity hypotheses. Discuss the role of reciprocity in liking using personal examples.
• Distinguish between exchange and communal relationships and consider the role of attachment style in studying intimate relationships.
• Describe how your attachment style affects your relationships and what you can do to improve your relationships.

use at least two appropriate scholarly references, and cite sources