intimacy

Examples of intimacy in the following topics:

• Effects of Group Size on Stability and Intimacy

  • As people have more and more online friends, how does this effect group stability and intimacy?

• Attraction: Loving

  • Psychologist Robert Sternberg views love as a triangle whose three sides consist of passion, intimacy, and commitment.
  • Companionate love, on the other hand, is best defined as passionate love that has settled to a warm enduring love between partners in a relationship; in Sternberg's terms, it is comprised of intimacy and commitment. 
  • Fatuous love is both passionate and committed, but lacks the stability that intimacy brings to relationships.
  • According to Sternberg, love consists of three components: passion (infatuation), commitment (companionship), and intimacy (liking).

• The Challenges of Adulthood

  • Erik Erikson proposed that people in early and middle adulthood struggle with two particular crises: intimacy vs isolation and generativity vs. stagnation.
  • Intimacy vs. isolation (from around age 20 into 30's and beyond) marks the challenge of being alone versus being involved in meaningful relationships.

• Romantic Love

  • During the initial stages of a romantic relationship, there is more often more emphasis on emotions—especially those of love, intimacy, compassion, appreciation, and affinity—rather than physical intimacy.
  • Within an established relationship, romantic love can be defined as a freeing or optimizing of intimacy in a particularly luxurious manner, or perhaps in greater spirituality, irony, or peril to the relationship.

• The Development of Value-Driven Firms

• Eye Contact

  • Eye contact can establish a sense of intimacy between two individuals, such as the gazes of lovers or the eye contact involved in flirting.

• Social Interaction in Urban Areas

  • Contact with the hypothetical person that Georg Simmel calls "the stranger" changes the way urban dwellers think about intimacy, personal space, and casual interactions.
  • Contact with the hypothetical person that Georg Simmel calls "the stranger" changes the way urban dwellers think about intimacy, personal space, and casual interactions.

• Socioemotional Development in Adulthood

  • These areas relate to the tasks that Erik Erikson referred to as generativity vs. stagnation and intimacy vs. isolation.
  • A lack of positive and meaningful relationships during adulthood can result in what Erikson termed the crisis of intimacy vs. isolation in his theory of psychosocial development.

• Dimensions of Human Development

  • It may be hard to establish intimacy if one has not developed trust or a sense of identity.

• Applied Body Language

  • Flirting usually involves speaking and behaving in a way that suggests a mildly greater level of intimacy than the actual relationship between parties would justify, though within the rules of social etiquette, which generally frown upon a direct expression of sexual interest.