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21 Cards in this Set
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Attraction definition and other stuff
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Evaluation of specific other person
Aka, an attitude Typically positive If you’re attracte to someone, evaluate them positively Predicts behavior Including belongingness related behaviors (goals) |
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Propinquity effect
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Attracted to people you see and interact with regularly
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Segal study
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Dorm assignment
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Festinger study
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MIT room assignment
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Functional distance
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how likely you are to interact with someone
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MIT study (festinger)
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Proximity: Diagram of an MIT apartment complex. (Source: Festinger, Schachter, & Back, 1950.)
Westgate West: student housing complex for married students..randomly assigned to apartment and building within complex..10 apartments across 2 floors, and some live near the stairs Who do you associate with socially most often? And who are your closest friends: negative correlation of physical distance and interaction with these people When asked to list closest friends: 2/3 listed people that lived in same building rather than different building…41% listed their next door neighbors People who lived on first floor near the stairs had a better chance of being friends with people above them, than first floor people far away from the stairs |
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Segal Maryland police
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Maryland police training assigned people randomly..the place (location) that you fall is a really strong predictor of where your friends fell on the list
Line up next to you..and because you live near someone, you become friends |
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Familiarity (captured by mere exposure effect)
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Mere exposure effect: The more often we are exposed to a stimulus…
The more you see and interact with someone, the more you like them because they have become familiar Probably due to fluency Mere exposure effect only works if you felt it as neutral on the offset |
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Contact
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Able to see and interact with people, and from there, attraction can grow
But, you could see their bad sides in all of this time too..so not just contact |
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Physical attractiveness
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Does it matter? Yes..it does predict kinds of liking
Definition? Everyody has a type, but many things are attractive across time |
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Gendered features
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some features particularly attractive on men (large eyes, prom cheek bones, broad jaw) or women (large eyes, prominent cheek bones, small nose, high eyebrows, wide smile)
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Symmetry
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also valued cross culturally
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Averageness
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we like average faces and positively evaluate them…they feel more familiar and comfortable
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But....
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culture, time, situational
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3 things why is attractiveness a predictor
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Evolutionary roots (fertility, health)
Preference for attractive traits goes to evolutionary roots and desire to pass on genes What-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype Things that are beautiful are good..attractive people possess other desirable personality traits Self-fulfilling prophecies Stereotypes from “what is beautiful can lead to this” |
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Misattribution of arousal
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Positive affect and/or arousal associated with situation could be misattributed to person you’re with
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Matching hypothesis
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“We date people as attractive as we are”
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Linguistic matching
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Speaking similarly to close friend or romantic partner..has to do with how string words together (natural language use)
Not like people using code words or pet names..structure of sentences. Want to get to know people with similar ones |
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4 reasons why we like similar others
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Propinquity
Similarity can increase proprinquity Self-evaluation maintenance We talked about negative side on cog diss day..this is underlied though because we want to be with people who validate us and maintain our views of ourselves Self-image bias How we see ourselves colors how we see others..how we evaluate others..if someone is dissimilar, we rate them negatively..if people agree with us, we evaluate positively We expect similar others to like us We like ourselves..this person is like me, so this person should also like me..also, we like people who are similar |
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Reciprocity
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We tend to be attracted to others who we feel are attracted to us (like only being attracted to someone after you find out they are attracted to you)
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6 factors of attraction
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proximity, attractiveness, miattribution of arousal, similarity, reciprocity, hard to get
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