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How important is similarity in a romantic relationship?
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Seemingly very:
The greater the similarity between husband and wife, the happier they report being and the less likely they are to divorce. (Byrne, 1971). |
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How much does similarity matter in relationships in general?
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Similarity leads to liking: the more similar someone's attitudes are to our own, the more likable you will find the person.
Griffit & Vietch: Collected personality assessments of 13 unacquainted men and then confined them in a fallout shelter. By comparing interests and opinions, they were able to predict with better than chance accuracy whom each men would like and dislike by the end of the experiment. The men liked those most like themselves best. |
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How much does dissimilarity between individuals affect their relationship. What is false consensus?
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Dissimilarity breeds dislike
false consensus bias that people share our attitudes, when we discover that someone has dissimilar attitudes, we may dislike the person. |
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What is the theory of complementarity? Those it hold any water?
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complementarity, the popularly supposed tendency, in a relationship between two people for each to complete what is missing in the other. In actuality, people seem slightly more prone to like and to marry those whose needs and personalities are similar. No research has reliably shown that opposites attract. Buss (1985)
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What are you likely to think of a person who likes you?
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People who perceive us as liking them will be more likely to reciprocate those feelings. (Berscheid & Walster, 1978)
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What do we seem to remember more, criticism or praise?
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“bad events have stronger and more lasting consequences than comparable good events.” This also accounts for criticism and praise. We perceive criticism as more sincere than praise.
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What is the Rebound Effect?
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Attacks on a person’s self-esteem (from someone else) can lead them to like a person more as a result. Women who received critical personality assessments rated an attractive male confederate as being more likeable than those who received a positive evaluation.
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What is the Reward Theory of Attraction?
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We like those whose behavior is rewarding to us, or associate with pleasant events. It is why we end up liking people we associate with positive events more. After interacting with a friendly experimenter, people preferred someone who liked like her. After interacting with an unfriendly experimenter, people avoid the woman who resembled her.
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