Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Interpersonal Attraction, Physical Attractiveness, Collectivism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Rachel Calogero

Document Summary

Absence of meaningful relationships makes us feel lonely, worthless, powerless and alienated. Self-expansion: desire to overlap/blend with another person to have access to their knowledge, insights and experiences and deepen your own life experience. Propinquity effect: more we see/interact with people, more likely they will become our friends. Proximity is one of the simplest determinants of interpersonal attraction. Forming relationships online: people report being more comfortable being their true self over internet compared to facet-to-face. Rich get richer hypothesis: some studies show that extroverts are more social online. Social compensation hypothesis: other studies show that introverts are lonely and lack social skills to form relationships in person and may benefit from online meeting. Shared music taste motivates friendship formation and communication online but relationships don"t tend to progress past that unless meet elsewhere. Common for online relationships to move offline and meet. People open up more and are more satisfied with offline than online friendships.