Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Social Influence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Recall: not securely attached is predictive of love life. Facilitating factors: predict whether people will interact or not: propinquity: Increases chances that 2 people will come into contact. Bossard: 50% of brides and grooms live within 20 blocks prior to marriage; 3% within 5 blocks. Festinger: military base study: randomly assigned people to places, ease of interaction was important. Side by side: more likely to interact with someone beside you rather than behind you (slightly more so face to face) Talking generates attraction: people who lived closer to each other generated interaction, mere exposure: Very robust/strong effect: the initial reaction must be neutral or mildly positive, if the initial reaction is negative repeated exposure results in decreased liking. Mita, dermer, and knight: normal vs. mirror-image photos. Grush: real elections: more media exposure = more winning, emotional state: Schaefer visits bars an listens to music: people who are sad play sad songs, and happy play happy songs etc.