CSP 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Online Dating Service, Physical Attractiveness

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 161
• Professor: Andrew Elliot

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Proximity the idea that people will become attracted to them the closer they are: festinger et al. (1950, festinger studied friendship formation in housing complex where residents were randomly assigned to apartments. Intensification hypothesis contact will simply intensify whatever feelings the person already has. These research assistants came to class a varied number of times research assistants visited 15 times, 10 times, 5 times, or 0 times. At the end of the semester, students were asked to rate the research assistants on various measures: results, reis, maniaci, caprariello, eastwick, and finkel (2011, 220 students were randomly paired up to have conversations using instant messenger. The students chatted either 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 times: results. Reciprocal liking if someone likes you, the more you like them: curtis and miller (1986, participant has a (cid:862)get a(cid:272)(cid:395)uai(cid:374)ted(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)satio(cid:374) with a confederate. Then they experience the confederate say whether they like or does not like the participant.