PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sucker Free, Cognitive Dissonance, Narcissism

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 230
• Professor: Charles Dufour

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Need for affiliation (idea that we have a desire to be with another human) when in a negative situation, we want to be around people (in a similar situation: 2. Direct effect: mood; if someone causes you to be happy, you are then attracted to being around that person. Associated effect: events that occurs close to/around the direct effect are likely to receive the same response (positive or negative) Propinquity(proximity): more likely to be around people who are close together; repeated exposure familiarity (more attraction) Mita, dermer, knight (1977): facial photograph of women; show up with a close friend they were then shown the original photo and a reversed photo friend like original, we like reversed: 2. What is beautiful is good (halo effect): idea that attractive people have different/better characteristics than others socially advanced. Attractiveness similarity: matching hypothesis/effect we will be attracted to people who would be rated the same as us on an attraction scale (1-10)