PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Reciprocal Liking, Physical Attractiveness, Subliminal Stimuli
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Interpersonal attraction is determined by: similarity, objective similarity doesn"t matter as much as how much you think you"re like you"re partner. Initially, perceived similarity matters but as you get into long term relationships, actual similarity doesn"t really matter (correlation) Or, the more you like the person, the more you decide you"re similar: propinquity: (proximity, ross, lepper & war (2010) 1/3 of marriages in philadelphia took place between people living within 5 blocks of each other (1930s) Propinquity places a large role: zajonc (1968) Limits to this effect, though too familiar = get sick of. Maybe the reason we like certain words is because we use them more often or is it because we use the words more that we like them more. Asked midwestern high school students to rank favorite cities and countries (predict which people said was their favorite) Correlation between preference ratings and corresponding frequencies. The things we encounter the most are the things we like the most.
