PSYC 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Integration, Jigsaw Puzzle
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Performance between you and the person you"re comparing yourself to. Can blow your self-esteem if you"re not doing as well: importance of comparison. If you value an attribute of you a lot, it can hurt if someone can do that thing better than you: closeness of others. It hurts more when someone close to you is doing better than you, compared to someone you don"t know. If your group member does better than you, you don"t care because you also reap the benefits because you"re a part of that group: we won . Says that you can predict who will be friends in a dorm just by how close they are to the elevator/stairs: closer you are, more likely you are to get friends. Also more likely to be friends with your neighbor. Mere exposure effect: the more exposed you get to something, the more you come to like it.
