Larry suspects that his girlfriend wants to break up with him.Being a rather mean-spirited fellow,Larry tells his girlfriend that if she breaks up with him,she will be alone and will never find another boyfriend.To manipulate his girlfriend,Larry is drawing his girlfriend's attention to the ________ component of Rusbult and colleagues' (1980,1983,2012)investment model of commitment.

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Larry is drawing his girlfriend's attention to the alternative partners component of the investment model. This component refers to the perceived availability and attractiveness of alternative partners, and it is negatively related to commitment. By telling his girlfriend that she will never find another boyfriend, Larry is trying to increase the perceived costs of breaking up with him and therefore decrease the likelihood of her leaving him.

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