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Mere-exposure effect
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the tendency to like a person more if we have been exposed to him or her repeatedly
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Homophily
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The tendency to have contact with people who are equal in social status
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Matching Phenomenon
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the tendency for men and women to choose as partners people who match them, that is, who are similar in attitudes, intelligence, and attractiveness
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Intimacy
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A quality of relationships characterized by commitment, feelings of closeness and trust, and self-disclosure
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Love story
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A story about what love should be like, including charcters, a plot, and a theme
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Passionate Love
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A state of intense longing for union with the other person and of intense physiological arousal
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Companionate Love
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A feeling of deep attachment and commitment to a person with whom one has an intimate relationship
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Operational Definition
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Defining some concept or term by how it is measured, for example, defining intelligence as those abilities that are measured by IQ tests
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Two-Component Theory of Love
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Berscheid and Walster's theory that two conditions must exist simultaneously for passionate love to occur: physiological arousal and attaching a cofnitive label ("love") to the feeling
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Misattribution of arousal
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When one is in a stage of physiological arousal attributin these feelings to love or attraction to the person present
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