PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Alcohol And Sex, Capilano River, Peter Ustinov

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30 Nov 2013
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Four factors that influence attraction: proximity, similarity, physical attractiveness, physiological arousal, proximity. Contrary to popular belief, i do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best; they are merely the people who got there first. sir peter ustinov. Married mit students randomly assigned to one of 17 buildings in a housing complex isolated from the rest of the city. Virtually no one knows anyone in the complex beforehand. Results: 65% of the residents had at least one friend who lived in their own building, but those living in the same building represented only 5% of all residents. How does it work: we have an increased opportunity to meet people who live close to us, we tend to like novel stimuli more after we have been repeatedly exposed to them (mere exposure) The tendency for novel (new) stimuli to be liked more after we have been repeatedly exposed to them.

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